Preface (Please Read) Below is context for things I’ll be consistently referencing throughout the post, which understanding will likely clear things up! Refold: What is it? What are Refold Stages? Comprehension Levels? Refold is the roadmap I’ve been following to acquire Korean. Whilst I don’t completely agree with what they share/promote, I do find their stages + comprehension levels to be invaluable for measuring one’s understanding of a language. Plus the community has been one of the best parts about learning Korean IMO. There are two things actually worth checking out by Refold, their simplified roadmap , and their detailed roadmap . They are one in the same but provide slightly different information and explanations, so if you’re interested in Refold, it’s worth reading the simplified roadmap and using the detailed one for extra information you need/want. Refold Stages are Refold’s version of a level system, where each stage has different comprehension requirements and sugg...
It's been a while. This post is going to be pretty short, but it is the only thing I have actually committed (and finished) writing. Hopefully it's useful for someone out there, who may be in the same place I was. Background: I started learning Korean in mid August 2021, and across the first 5 months I spend over 450 hours studying grammar using TTMIK and HTSK. I finished TTMIK in December 2021 and did 6 units of HTSK throughout those 5 months. For the first month I averaged 3-4 hours a day, and for the 5th I averaged 90 minutes. The entire time I took notes for every single lesson I did. However, I did not make any of my own sentences because I didn't want to. After finishing TTMIK and HTSK, the only grammar study I did was look ups (basically searching for a short definition on google for unknown grammar found) in immersion. I did not review at all and didn't do any practice questions or practice sentences using new grammar, whatsoever. Up until July 2023, lookups had...