Korean study continues! I’m back full time on Anki and I started a Korean Class at the Korean Foundation Cultural Center here in Seoul.
Anki
I was way behind in Anki reviews for about two months. It took the last month of daily reviews to get where I am now which is around 100 reviews in the daily queue.
In the past week I’ve added a few hundred cards to the deck. I added a couple chapters of sentences and expressions from Essential Korean for Everyday Use. Princess Yuah typed out the Korean. I typed out the English translation. Then I used Audacity to cut and export the MP3 audio. I used Excel to put it all together and then exported it as a text file. Then, finally imported that file into Anki using a modified card template. It makes for a pretty cool study card. -Authentic Korean with audio.
In my next post I will outline the process. I hope someday all this work won’t be necessary. Typing, importing, exporting, cutting is only slightly interesting for a very short time. It gets really tedious after doing about 500 sentences.
Korean Class
Two weeks ago I started taking a Korean class at the Korean Foundation Cultural Center. I wanted a chance to speak in Korean at my slow speed and for another person to patiently listen and respond. So far it seems like there is a chance for this but mostly a chance to learn lots of grammar! The class last night focused on changing verbs from the root form to three other forms. The teacher was going over the conjugation rules and I blanked out. My failed attempts at trying to memorize rules and all the exceptions triggered the shut off. I gave up on verb lists, rules and exceptions, a year ago. I was curious to see how well Anki helped me this last year though. In the workbook was a list of verbs in their base form. I tried conjugating them. I was happily surprised. I was able to quickly do about 90% of them based on feeling or sound. The other 10% were words I hadn’t seen and i just guessed the verb form. I wasn’t 100% perfect but pretty close. OK, so daily repetition does work. 
