What’s up guys!
Now I’m back for the October progress update with my Korean.
How’s your Korean study doing? Do you see yourself improving gradually?
At the moment, I haven’t spent much time in the language, yet I don’t feel like I’m going backwards because after all, it’s been with me for a decade.
To see more about my progress, feel free to read along.
October Update
So how well did I do with Korean?
My total input for Korean is minimal – at 57 minutes.
That is less than an hour out of the hundreds of hours available for October.
Let me explain.
Korean is one of the languages I’m juggling alongside several languages – Spanish, Mandarin, and a bit of Japanese. In fact, my Mandarin study actually went over an hour for the month of October, which exceeds Korean.
I decided for October that my main vertical was going to be Spanish, as you can see in this October update.
But although I had less activity with Korean, I took the opportunity to do things outside Korean that will help me when I decide to get back:
- Finding a ton of comprehensible input in Korean especially for Beginner and Intermediate stages
- Subscribing to Korean YouTube channels should I start immersing again
- Checking out a book about sentence patterns whether it could help me improve during immersion
- Focusing more on stories, thanks to the influence of Spanish because I constantly listen to stories in that language
When I come back, I don’t want to torture myself by taking in hard content (say news shows or a group of fast-speaking natives). The key I believe is to restore my confidence in the language by recovering bit by bit.
Should you decide to come back in a foreign language you’re learning, I would also advise the same thing – go easy and start small.
Goals for November
With less input per month, does it make sense to still set goals? I think so.
At the very least, I can provide guide points for my Korean immersion.
- Maintain a Minimum Input – An entire busy month would always have holes to insert other languages, including Korean. That’s what I’ll stick to for the moment.
- Stay on YouTube – My account is already tailored to show a lot of Korean content. All I have to do is play videos when I’m ready to jump back in.
- Focus on Comprehensible input with Lighter Difficulty – It can be tempting to go hard from the start of the recovery, but the key is to get as much understandable messages as possible (which I learned from Stephen Krashen).
I don’t advise you guys to start juggling languages like I do, since I do it out of curiosity. Later on, priorities will change and I might spend more time with Korean again.
How about you, what’s your goal with Korean? Do you keep track of your progress too? Write to us about it in the comments section.
