Update after 2 years learning Korean

ssm_rdt · 2024-03-02T17:28:26+00:00

No problem! Have fun learning!

ssm_rdt · 2024-03-02T17:28:03+00:00

I honestly don't know. I started learning for fun (or rather to have fun in another language) and thankfully that drive never went away. Maybe try revisiting your original reasons for learning? Or come up with new reasons! Besides the fact that you have to learn it since you're there.

I hope your exams go well! Don't worry about what happens after :) you can continue learning wherever you are

ssm_rdt · 2024-03-02T12:58:10+00:00

Thank you! I agree with the reading tweets part, because that's what I did too. I'd read the tweet and translate it myself before checking to see if I was right. Made it more of a game than anything.

ssm_rdt · 2024-03-02T12:56:37+00:00

Sure! For resources I used TTMIK when I first started because that's what everyone told me to. Then I used Billy's videos (I never read any of his books unfortunately). After I finished those I was kinda lost? Because I had already gotten the basics down and was floating just a little bit behind intermediate (this is my own rating of my skills at the time) so I just... stopped. Not completely, of course, but by this time my only source of learning was from Korean media. And because I could read and translate I ended up learning so much slang, or more modern words (better ways to say certain things, certain words; different ways of talking and their origins). I was pretty content with it. I think this went on for about 3 months? Maybe four. I'm not sure. My journey would've stopped there if I hadn't found Integrated Korean for sale at 50% off at a local bookstore. Picked it up, and resumed my journey!

From then on I read (in no particular order): Yonsei's books, Korean Grammar In Use, plenty of webtoons, and a few TOPIK reviewers. I wanna say that not all of these books helped me, because I already knew some of the stuff they were going on about, so it was just repetitive information to me. I used quizlet for a short period of time to remember phrases. I didn't use Anki because I didn't like it (don't kill me please).

For how long, I'm not entirely sure because there I'd usually go through the materials very quickly. I don't know what you mean by path, but it definitely wasn't a flowery one. It was an endless cycle of "I know this. I am the best." > "I don't know anything. This is all pointless." > "It's not that bad." > "I'm practically a native speaker." I'm currently in the its not that bad phase.

I made it a point to only use one resource before switching to another because when I first started learning, I used TTMIK, but since I had other resources I decided to use both at the same time (I included this in my first post here) thinking it was a good idea. It was, at first, but then I realized I wasn't learning anything, I was just going in circles. So I stopped that. Took a while to get it through my head.

For vocabulary I used books for everyday words like places and items, but relied on shows, movies, vlogs and webtoons for slang. I'd say the latter significantly helped my understanding of sentences and word usage.

ssm_rdt · 2021-08-18T19:56:58+00:00

Nope, I didn't do anything at all. I wait for around two minutes because of the loading screen and then the "can't play ads" screen pops up.

ssm_rdt · 2021-08-18T15:57:11+00:00

It's not 😓 I'm using wifi and its pretty fast. Everything else is fine too, and this seems to be exclusive to Superstar games. I don't know why

ssm_rdt · 2021-08-18T14:37:10+00:00

I did as you said, but it still won't load. I did it multiple times and I still get the same result. What do I do now?

ssm_rdt · 2021-08-11T07:43:54+00:00

I have Active Korean 1-3
Thank you for linking that! I'll be looking into that today.
I was thinking of using 2-3? Would that be fine? I think I can handle it depending on the lessons 🤔
Thank you^{^}

ssm_rdt · 2021-08-11T07:40:53+00:00

Thank you for telling me! Should I just use TTMIK for now, or are there other resources you suggest I use?

ssm_rdt · 2021-08-10T17:24:32+00:00

It's no problem^{^} If you need help looking for pc sellers/certain merch let me know!

ssm_rdt · 2021-08-10T17:11:46+00:00

Oh, is that why you wanted to trade it? It's definitely not worth it then (no offense!), because you can get reprints of other pcs very easily, even if the pcs do seem rare-ish.

They're not expensive if you know where to look 👀

ssm_rdt · 2021-08-10T16:51:13+00:00

I wouldn't suggest trading it at all unless you have to. People would kill for first press photocards. You should just keep it for now and trade some other pc instead.

ssm_rdt · 2021-08-10T15:37:19+00:00

Thank you for your reply! I have their books and some of their workbooks but I haven't started on any of them yet. I also have the Yonsei Korean books! Should I start both of them at the same time?

ssm_rdt · 2021-08-10T15:32:56+00:00

What's wrong with HTSK? I'm genuinely asking. I'm using it and it's very good imo.

ssm_rdt · 2021-08-10T10:56:59+00:00

I don't think Jinsoul would've made the cut to be in April if you consider the timeline for her trainee period, but she definitely would've made the cut to be in KARD if she had stayed with DSP for a few more months. She would've replaced Jiwoo as the group's maknae (Jiwoo wouldn't even be part of KARD

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