I made a discovery this last month. Surrounded by a sea of  ballads and teen-pop, I found this tiny tiny island of K-rock. On it, was  Delispice, the band above,  and a few other ones. I’m still searching for some more.

The progress report on my Korean Language Study Experiments:

Listening: There was definite progress with the first audio blog lesson. Now, when I listen, I understand about 60% percent. It’s better than the 10% when I began.
Reading: Faster, and fast enough to read out loud in a melodic fashion. Yes, I sang. It felt pretty cool, for the first time, to be able to keep up with a couple rock songs in the singing room.
Writing: Not much improvement with the free writing. My writing is only in the form of short messages on the cell phone.
Speaking: See Reading.
Typing: Copying one thousand Korean sentences does wonders for typing speed and now I can type without looking at the keyboard. It’s still really difficult to check for accuracy after I’ve copied something. Misspellings don’t scream out as they do in English. It’s more like a whisper or nothing at all.

Last month I decided that I needed to work on the listening skilz. I took an advanced audio blog from Korean Class 101, chopped it up and added the clips to a new deck. I used it for over a week, noticed some progress, then I gave up on it. It was too much too soon. I haven’t opened that deck for about two weeks. I should go through the deck and delete the offensive content. For the moment though I don’t even want to open it up.

The reviews of the main sentence deck suffered a bit because of the above problem. I reviewed everyday but I got behind. It took me about a week to recover. I started deleting the longer sentences, and sentences that i was just sick of seeing. This really helped me come back and in this final week I began adding new fun sentences, and pulled a nice average of 40 new ones a day.

In the last progress report I wrote that I wanted to learn 5000 sentences in 6 months, but it’s looking like it will probably be around 4000. This is really okay because I will still secretly shoot for 5000 anyway.

I no longer question the effectiveness of SRS. It works and works really well for language learning. The question is now, where else can I use this software?