@Robert

• I'm living in the U.S. and have been studying Korean in the U.S. for a little more than a year at this point, while also working full-time. As far as I know, I'm not a linguistic genius. I decided to visit Korea a few months ago (about 1 year after i started learning the language) and I was able to understand most of what was spoken to me. Granted some conversations with natives would go beyond my capabilities but I would politely ask them to speak more simply to me and people were usually happy to do so. I was even able to visit Jeju Island get around using and hearing only Korean the whole time. Many of the restaurant owners were interested and very happy to hear me speaking Korean, and enjoyed sitting with me and my friend for some simple conversation with me. I felt that if I had more time, I could have done better, but I was happy to be able to communicate even at that simple level.
  
  If I had been able to spend the past year actually LIVING in Korea and attending one of the Korean language courses at one of the universities in Seoul, there's no doubt that I'd be beyond conversational level.
  If you really want to learn the language, its very possible.

  Rian 18 Jan 2009, 07:07 - Report

How long does it take to learn Korean?