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Update

I am going to stop learning Korean for now. I love the language, and I am coming back to it eventually, but I have things to figure out in my life. I want to move somewhere cold, maybe Norway or Sweden or even Finland. I will learn the language of wherever I decide to move, because a goal will make it easier for me. I also need to look for a job since I need a desktop and a phone that doesn't suck. Probably also an audio player. I'm probably going to be either a janitor or shelf stocker since both of those will allow me to avoid people, and hopefully I'll be allowed to listen to audiobooks or podcasts or whatever else.

Again, I will come back to Korean eventually. It is one of the few languages that won't leave my brain no matter how long passes. It'll just have to come once I've figured stuff out.

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I have been sick since my last post and have not studied Korean because of it, I'm still not feeling well so I'll wait another day or two but I will continue eventually

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Korean Day 16

FSI Day 1

I do each Unit over the course of a few days, which is why I put Day 1. I'm on Unit 4 currently.

Scriptorium - Dialogue A

I start the set off by reading the first dialogue (the FSI units up to this point have two sets of dialogue so I do the whole thing over two days) along with its translation. Then I do the Scriptorium technique created by Alexander Arguelles. I read each sentence out loud syllable-by-syllable as I write it, then repeat the sentence.

After the Scriptorium, I just listen to the rest of the audio.

Anki

I don't know what techniques people have for Anki, but I just do the cards by reading the front and back a few times before passing the card.

FSI - 90 minutes

Anki - 15 minutes

Total - 19 hours

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Day 13-15 of Korean

Day 13

FSI - 40 minutes

Anki - 20 minutes

Day 14

FSI - 30 minutes

Day 15

Break

Total - 17.25 hours

I am posting this before I start Day 16 instead of just lumping it in with the rest like I normally do because I want to go more in-depth with what I'm doing for that post. Maybe my exact process will give others ideas, maybe someone with more experience will give me ideas on what to add or remove or modify what I already do. Tumblr is a community so I think it makes sense to start treating it like one instead of just a barebones journal.

I'll probably describe what I do once and then any time I change it or add something new. I don't need to post "I do this exact thing" every time when said thing doesn't change, after all.

Anyway, see y'all later.

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Day 12 of Korean

FSI - 75 minutes

Total - 16 hours

I think I'm gonna change my new cards in Anki to 25 per day, it doesn't really matter how many I get through as long as it stays consistent

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Day 11 of Korean

Another zero day, I overslept and everything went downhill after that so I didn't get anything done

I did find a couple YouTube channels I may start watching though, hopefully I can get back on track and do multiple hours of Korean every day

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Day 10 of Korean

FSI - 80 minutes

Anki - 25 minutes

Total: 14.75 hours

I want to bring in some sort of immersion but idk what, maybe I'll just watch kdrama episodes with subtitles then go back without them and just let my brain pick up the language based on what I know the story to be. I hear that's an effective strategy, at least. Just gotta find one that interests me.

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Days 7-9 of Korean

Day 7

FSI - 30 minutes

Day 8

Nothing - I needed a break because I was exhausted from life things

Day 9

FSI - 45 minutes

Anki - 15 minutes

I've decided to add Anki to my routine, I'm using this deck (Korean Core 5K) at 50 new cards per day (that is likely way too many and definitely not recommended but I need to go hard to achieve my goals, especially since the first week was very relaxed)

Total: 13 hours

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Day Five and Six of Korean

Day Five

FSI - 2.5 hours

Day 6

FSI - 30 minutes

I need to bring in immersion of some kind but idk what, probably just gonna watch more comprehensible input or try to find a kdrama. I don't really watch TV shows so at least I'll be trying something new if I do that.

Edit: Total time: 11.5 hours

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Day Four of Korean

FSI - 60 minutes

Total time: 8.5 hours

I overslept so I didn't get any of that early morning alone time that I need to get things done, but I did still do an hour since I will not let myself have any zero days for this entire year

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Day Three of Korean

FSI: 60 minutes

Comprehensible Input: 30 minutes

Overall Total Korean time: 7.5 hours

I am tired and exhausted and life isn't helping

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Day Two of Korean

It is I, Yoru, back again with a post.

I only got two hours done today (one hour of FSI and one hour of comprehensible input) because of things that apparently decided to wait until I started learning Korean to fuck me over.

I'm going to start waking up early to get more studying done so I should do better.

Edit: Total time in Korean: 6 hours

I think I'm gonna keep track and do a monthly or biweekly recap

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Day One of Korean

FSI Basic Korean - 175 minutes

I listened to the audio multiple times and did the scriptorium technique with the basic dialogue (scriptorium is where you copy a phrase down and repeat it slowly to squeeze as much juice out of it as possible and hopefully it'll help internalize the vocabulary and sentence structure)

Comprehensible Input - 65 minutes

I watched the first six episodes of the old beginner playlist by 태웅쌤

Total: 240 minutes or 4 hours exactly

I didn't get the hour of reading I planned for because life just never goes right but that's how it goes, four hours is still four more than zero so I didn't fail even if I didn't reach my goal

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Langblr start

I am going to use this as a langblr to keep myself accountable, specifically I am learning Korean. I am going for 5 hours a day for an entire year (from scratch). Go big or go home, prosper or die, that sort of thing.

My main goal is to be able to read manhwa and maybe some books without wanting to throw myself off a cliff, going really hard at the language for a year should help with that.

Every night before bed I will post my entry for that day, it is 8am so still about 14 hours before my first "real" entry.

Good morning to anyone who finds this.