The Road to Korean Fluency

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...