Question about resources to learn Korean unknown words from text
Hello and good day for everyone :)

I'm looking for new resources for my learning progress :)
1. I came to the step of learning Korean, when I need the text-analyzation resource to keep studying (with no wasting of time on looking for non-familiar wors in the text). From time to time I'm using Lingq for Japanese (example), but it doesn't work with Korean, because of many politeness levels and forms (with Japanese it's a bit more easy for me to identify the dictionary word of the word).
2. Resourse where I can put the sentence and it will show me all word separately in dictionary form. In Japanese I'm using for it jisho.org. Hope there is something similar for Korean.

Can someone give me a piece of advice? Two important points again: 1. the possibility to see unknown words in the text (ie the site must keep the database of words marked as learned); 2. the possibility to receive a list of all words from the text in its dictionary form.

Thank you in advance!

Question

Question about resources to learn Korean unknown words from text
Hello and good day for everyone :)

I'm looking for new resources for my learning progress :)
1. I came to the step of learning Korean, when I need the text-analyzation resource to keep studying (with no wasting of time on looking for non-familiar wors in the text). From time to time I'm using Lingq for Japanese (example), but it doesn't work with Korean, because of many politeness levels and forms (with Japanese it's a bit more easy for me to identify the dictionary word of the word).
2. Resourse where I can put the sentence and it will show me all word separately in dictionary form. In Japanese I'm using for it jisho.org. Hope there is something similar for Korean.

Can someone give me a piece of advice? Two important points again: 1. the possibility to see unknown words in the text (ie the site must keep the database of words marked as learned); 2. the possibility to receive a list of all words from the text in its dictionary form.

Thank you in advance!

Answer

For searching dictionary form of each words, the Naver translator is helpful.
http://translate.naver.com/#/ko/en

Also, you can try full text search on wiktionary.
https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?search=

Answer

1. The mouse-over dictionary Toktogi (똑똑이) might help (it's a browser plug-in).
It lets you move your cursor on the word to see the definition or the dictionary form, without clocking on it.

It's a tool similar to Zhongwen for Chinese and Rikai-kun for Japanese.
The good thing is that it's fast and efficient since you don't even have to click, let alone switching to a different tab.
The unfortunate thing is that its vocabulary is a bit lacking, so it might draw a blank on some words.

Overall, it's still the best or maybe even the only tool of its kind for Korean as far as I know.

2. I don't know of a site like that for Korean.
I sometimes hear of some companies coming up with a more advanced translation algorithm and such, but haven't really seen a widely available one yet.

As for the last two points you mention, I only know of LingQ that can do the first one at least to an extent.
I don't know if there's a site that does the second one, but Totoki I mentioned above does some of that in an on-demand fashion.

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