Korean stories are back!

[PtolemysXX]

Good news: Korean stories are back!

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Maybe they they have been around here for a while - I have not been checking the path for a long while.

[Amy728038]

When do stories emerge on the path? At what section?

[PtolemysXX]

In my version of the path they start in section 3 / Unit 22, i.e. at a fairly advanced level. Initially 1 story per unit, at the end 3 stories per unit, total of 65.

Edit: There are actually 40 stories in the current course as of today. The number 65 results from the first 25 stories being repeated at the end of section 3.

[Amy728038]

Thanks! It’ll take me a while to get there because I’m doing Duolingo both from Japanese and from English. The courses are quite different. The one from English presents everything using all very formal endings. The one from Japanese starts with a variety of useful daily expressions and then as it moves on to different topics using 요 endings as well as some more casual expressions here and there. It’s also much easier to figure out the gazillion Korean particles by looking at what it is in Japanese. I think the Japanese one doesn’t have stories at all. I will look forward to these in the future! thank you so much!

[PtolemysXX]

Thank you for sharing your experiences from the two flavors of the Korean course. This is very interesting. It does make sense to structure the Korean from Japanese course differently than English->Korean: due to the similarities between the two Asian languages certain language constructs appear quite natural to Japanese speakers so they need no particular explanation and can be introduced right in the beginning. For someone coming from an Indo-European language as a base it is totally different. In particular the speech levels give a lot of headaches so no wonder the English course starts with teaching the formal speech. But no worries, the course is large enough and little by little introduces other speech levels (Duolingo calls them formal, polite, written and casual) and there are plenty of examples covering all of them. The stories are also excellent in presenting casual/informal speech.

In the past Duolingo would publish "Tips & Notes" alongside a course to allow off-line learning of the grammar. Tips & Notes have been officially abandonded but you can still look them up here on duome:

Tips & Notes

The document is a little outdated (the current course has much more material) but you can still regard it as reference to see what you can expect.

As for useful phrases there are quite a few of them spread around the entire course. There is also a separate skill devoted to phrases. You can see the vocabulary for that skill here:

Skill "Phrases"

[Amy728038]

So I finished the entire Korean course via Japanese and stories never emerged. It went into daily refresh, which I didn’t want to do. Then I checked back several months laterand discovered that they created some more levels of lessons so I started it again. I’m about halfway through those by jumping ahead, and still no stories. Meanwhile, back in Korean via English Duolingo, I haven’t done it for months, till today just jumped up to lesson 60. Then I backtracked to look for the stories. And I found a lot of of them! I’ve been going through and doing them. At this point, they’re pretty easy but there’s an occasional word. I don’t know which is cool. Good to learn new things! I like the way they’re designed to present little conversations with some fill in the blank activities or other things to be engaging. Nicely done and they should put them in Korean via Japanese course too!