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We talked over lattes in in the town of Kimje . I told her I wasted my time for the first year of studying Korean. I spent all that time struggling,  trying to retain what I had learned and trying to output using grammar rules.  But she said, “No. You have what you have now because of that waste of time”.  “Okay”, I said. “You’re right.” Failing horribly forced me do find a better way.

Now, five months later…I’m moving right along with Korean. I’ve stopped with Korean Class 101 lessons last month. I got to the point where I learned enough sentence patterns to set me free from their lessons and dive into other material. Lately its been expression dictionaries. I occasionally run into strange grammar but most of the time now the new stuff I’m learning is vocabulary. I’ll probably go back to KC101 lessons in the future but for now I’m having fun without it.

Learning song lyrics is another thing I’m doing for fun. MC Snyper, Delispice, and Zitten are some of the Korean artists I find interesting. MC Snyper is way too fast to keep up with but still fun to listen too.

And the other day I found myself  watching a Japanese film that had Korean subtitles. I had to pause it often in order to read the subtitles, but I was happy I could even understand a little.

I have around 3500 cards in the Anki deck with  2700 in rotation,  and another 1000 or so waiting to be added. I kinda wish I had more  but I definitely have a limit to the amount I can learn in a day.

This final and upcoming month I will continue as I have done for the past five and perhaps do the Virtual Output Experiment.