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I'm going to Korea next year (most probably) but I am having doubts because I have just graduated from high school. I will be doing a whole year course of Korean language but I am hesitating on what I can do after studying that.

Please tell me what jobs I can take up with that certificate. It'd be good if you can give me more than 2 careers.

I don't really like exam oriented colleges and I believe in brushing up on my own prospects for career instead of shoving my nose into the books just for assessments.

Give me comments and suggestions and please do remember to answer my question!

Thanks

I have attended three separate Korean language schools (1 in US, 2 Korean Universities).
You are going to get a fairly meaningless certificate when you finish the year long course. Your language skills will be great for you if you are planning to continue your education in Korea, get a degree in something else and go work in a Korean company, or you want to get a low paying job in Korea.
Beyond that, the language alone won't do much.
After a year you are not going to be good enough to do translation work, that is highly specialized. You have no degree, so you cannot go into English teaching here (not legally), and the ability to speak Korean all by itself is not a highly sought after skill.
You might try to get a job as a tour guide at some tourist spot in Korea, but you won't make much money.
To answer your question specifically: Nothing worth while. You are putting the cart before the horse if you want to use Korean in a career. Get your degree first, then you can learn Korean as icing on the cake to your other qualifications.

But, if you are burnt out and just want a year long vacation, I highly recommend coming to Korea and studying for a year.

I am a Korean male, and I struggle with my native language. When I was young, I was sent to Korean school, but had no interest in learning. I was the only asian in my elementary school, so I had no desire to learn. Now since I am older, I do not feel completely Korean, because my reading, writing and speaking skills are poor. Are there any Koreans in the New York area, that can help me find a class to go to? I don't want to spend too much money on classes.

A couple of different colleges in New York have Korean classes:
Columbia: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/
NYU: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/east.asian.studies/courses/descriptions/korean.html

Columbia also has a Korean Christian club, where you can probably meet other Korean speakers:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/kcsa/

You could probably also just make contact with Korean-speaking friends and relatives who could speak to you in Korean more. My guess is that you might remember some of the Korean you could speak before.

Happy language learning!

i'm 13, and am looking for a language school (either in tokyo, US, or Japan) that has courses that are designed for younger teens. All the schools that i have looked at, have courses designed for people 18+, and most of them require you to live alone or with somebody in an apartment….so if anyone has details to schools that have courses designed for younger teens, that offer the chance to live with another family(instead of paying for an apartment..) please let me know…
I can read both katakana and hiragana btw.

as i didn't see any other recommendations for you, i would suggest you start studying online first, before you find such a school.

in fact it is not easy to search for a free site to self-learn japanese. but i assume you are a beginner, so you can start from learning the alphabets (hiragana and katakana). you can try this out: http://www.sayjack.com/alphabetintro.html – it has audio files and listening quiz. hope it helps.

I want to take a internet traffic school in Korean.

If you're in the US, learn to be proficient in English.

I’m a junior in high school and would like to know which college in florida offers korean language classes? I’ve been looking around on different sites but i didn’t find any.

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I am looking to learn a language in addition to learning Vietnamese.

However, since I am around mostly Vietnamese, I am able to brush up on it; however, since I'm not around Japanese it will be a bit difficult to brush up on the language.

With Korean, I understand that there is a study group out here in the South Bay Area (but DeAnza is the only school that teaches it!)

Still, it's a toss up between Japanese and Korean…in addition to Vietnamese, which I'm learning.

Japanese and Korean are two of the hardest languages for a native English-speaker to learn. I myself am Korean-American (first langauges were Korean and English), and I'm also taking classes in Japanese (along with sign langauge, and Spanish.) I must personally say that Korean is much more difficult than Japanese.

For example, Korean, at first, seems fairly easy to read and write. But there are so many subtle nuances between vowels and dipthongs. There are also a bunch of spelling rules (equivalent of English's "'i' before 'e' except after 'c,'" etc.). In Japanese, you merely have to memorize characters. What about those pesky Chinese characters (kanji in Japanese, hanja in Korean)? Well, although they're not used as frequently in colloquial Korean writing, many Korean newspapers frequently use them, and it would take the knowledge of 1000+ to read through a whole paper fluently.

With the vowel nuances of Korean, it may also be harder to speak. It seems as though Americans (native English-speakers) can catch onto Japanese's pronounciation easier than Korean's.

Honorifics are a HUGE part of Korean. It's a ppart of Japanese too, but it has a larger role in Korean. The way to speak informally-polite is different from formal-polite, which is different from general-address, and almost any other thing you can think of (almost.)

But learning Korean would be so rewarding. Personally, I feel as if Korean is a more "confident" sounding langauge compared to the "soft-spoken" Japanese (both sounding just as euphonious as the other.) Korea also has a rich culture (including history, cuisine, way-of-life) that goes, for the most part, unspoken. Let you tell you too that Korea would be a larger player on the world stage (with South Korea's growing economy and North Korea's growing impotence.) I've also reliezed more people jumping onto the Korean Wave (K-Pop a/k/a Korean pop culture), and off that of Japan's.

Personally, I'd say learn both. After learning one, learning the other would be much easier (I'd suggest kgoing Korean to Japanese; I seem to catch on really quickly.) They both have similar grammatical structures, and the influence of Chinese culture on both of them create another similarity. This is probably the only similarity Vietnamese would lend to these lagnauges: a cognate here or there.