The Road to Korean Fluency

  Before we start, I’m going to be straight forward. This is going to be long, and if you can get through all of this and take something from it, then I’ve done my job. I want this to be as helpful as possible for beginners learning Korean and specifically something I wish I had read when I started. I personally believe beginners to more distant languages almost always overestimate the progress you can make in x amount of time. To a degree, I think beginner me would be ecstatic that at 10 months, I have the ability to read books and watch dramas without help, but if I was told it took 2000 hours (instead of 10 months) I would’ve been disappointed. Feel free to skim, and if you have any questions, contact me on discord (피어나#7923).  I’m going to cover most bases of what I’ve done during these 10 months. It’s hard to fit in recommendations for what beginners should do in this same post, so I’ll save that for another time. Please take this all with a grain of salt. What I’ve done ...