tkmayfie wrote:Yonsei also has online lectures, but it costs $100, not that bad of a price, unless you're a poor 대학생 college student ㅋㅋㅋ
http://www.yskli.com/lsm_lect.htm
Hey there tkmayfie. Just wanted to let you know that I did the first two lessons on the Yonsei online course and by comparison to KC101 they are severely lacking and over priced.
Pros: The grammar section is pretty good and explains a lot. The layout is also nice and easy to use.
Cons: They basicaly give you just 6 weeks to do the self study course. It means one lesson for like 30mins every day, which sounds fine and perfectly reasonable but you need to take a lot of notes and print everything out before the end of the 6 weeks or you'll never be able to review it. Also if you were going to do it I would advise buying the yonsei books to go with it.
Their service is terrible. They never responded to emails and are pretty difficult to get hold of on the phone and when you apply you're never sure exactly when your course starts.
One other thing that really annoyed me was how unnatural and boring the conversations are. They use too many 입니다 endings which is fine but there is no slang, cultural insights or indications that you're studying a language that people actually speak and use day to day. In short it always feels like cold grammar with no real life to it.
I switched from studying with that online to studying KC101 a few months ago and I'd never dream of going back to it.
Maybe that's just me and other people will have a different opinion. Just thought I'd share my experience with you
Hope that helps.
