So regarding the borrowed words from English in Duolongo I assume they teach that at the start because they think it will be easier and make native English speakers more comfortable with the Korean alphabet
But as you get into later units a lower percent of the vocabularly is borrowed from English
And Duolingo is not the only teaching material that starts with borrowed words
@eris @shortstories maybe not but many foods or thing is similar like ice cream, coffee, black, white, diamond, phone etc are just similar like coffee they say kopi and sound like English words just with Asian accents.
Also Indonesian uses English letters and is in closer to English word order than Korean
Indonesian might be an easier language for beginners than Korean on Duolingo
I do not know because I had more Korean experience so I could get farther in Korean but Indonesian looks like it would be simpler to me if I had no exoerience in either language
So because the Korean alphabet is easier I would work on it first instead of all three at once
I would do Korean practice before German and Spanish because you already are closer to knowing their alohabets since they are almost the same as English
Once you have the Korean alphabet memorized you can reduce time on it and just maintain it and then pick another language to focus on
Or do not do Korean, Arabic or Japanese at all until you completed the courses in the easier languages
@shortstories Yea I feel it that I need to do it especially in chine and arabic when your memory is needed more.
Same with japanese too long alphabet to memorize only from duolingo.
So i think korean is easier from all of the asian languages because it looks like it was westernized.
@shortstories Yea i do not mind missing few letters.
Korean has an alphabetical order for the consonants learn it and write them in that order in the notebook until you can write in alphabeticak order without a guide
Next you can do that with Arabic or Japanese Alphabets but not the Japanese Pictograms
And switch between all three until you do not forget when you switch back to the previousv language
Arabic writing practice has to be done in a special way because the letter changes shape based on whers it is in a word
I would suggest that Korean is easier than Japanese and Arabic
Do not even study Japanese or Arabic until you learn the Korean Alphabet
Just take a notebook and write each consonant paired with each of the simple vowels
Do not even use Duolingo to learn it other than to remember the sounds
After you can write all the consonants from memory paired with simple vowels without looking at something else
Then you have memorized the alphabet for the first time & you can switch languages
You have to spend all or none commitment with Korean, Japanese and Arabic
You can skip around with German and Soanish because you know the English Alphabet
Continous translating at least once a day helps prevent forgetting but I would be translating at least 7 hours a week when not listening to lectures or reading a textbook
If you take a notebook and write every combination of one consonant followed by one vowel it will take a long time but it will help your memory
Pay careful attentiom to if the vowel goes to the right of or below the consonant
So I think I was studying it at least 12 hours per week for maybe 1 to 2 months
But I would still forget at first
But now I can go for months without studying and still remember
After you relearn it enough times it stays in your memory
So after you learn the alphabet well enough then simply translating sentences forces you to use the alphabet every time you read or write
@shortstories after i reseted the language it asked my how much i know from it I said almost nothing so I should have the experience that will have any brand new learner.
I learn languages every other day but I move from Russian to German, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Chinese and last is Korean.
I personally have it for long time so I have something to do.
But will probably watch videos about korean language to push it more.
Maybe you should go through the whole alphabet course then delete it three times then next do the parts where you translate it back and forth from Korean to English
But you shoud do at least one lesson of Korean to English translation every day for at least a month to avoid forgetting the alphabet after you complete the alphabet
If you are not using the Alphabet every day you might forget it
Verb is at the end of simple sentences
Watch let's play then I see how game is actually played & decide if I want to try it
For point in click I do not try it, I just watch the let's play because trying it would just be clicking at a bunch of random stuff until I get the result they show in the let's play
Puzzles for games like Gabriel Knight 3 do not make any sense but the story is interesting so you can just watch someone solve the nonsense puzzles & see the story
Gabriel Knight 1 is very educational & it has a remake
Try these
Kyrandia 1, 2 and 3 ( if the first one is too hard do not let it discourage you from trying the other ones which are easier, although the plot for the third one is based on the first one )
Lands of Lore the Throne of Chaos
Dune 2 the battle for Arakis
Daggerfall
Ancient Domains of Mystery
Hyper Rogue
Sonic the hedgehog
The first Dark Sun in the trilogy
Commander Keen
Wolfenstein 3D
Doom 2
Obsidian ( the one that had such a high budget the corporation went broke )
You can buy old games on gog but I am not sure they have the license to sell them so I do not see how it would provide any more legal protection than downloading them for free from a website without viruses or malware
But you can play a lot of them in a browser on websites without doenloading them at all, and I am wondering if that is safer legally
@shortstories I have reseted the course so I do not miss the all think and it was for me more advance. But looking from first think you start to learn about ordering in cafe.
I have decided that I will first
focus on letters and later move to learning