that's very nice thank you wow

look at that

get you a friend who sends you gifs and pictures

as you study

hello my friends, good evening

it's 9 pm

but that doesn't stop us from studying

so today i am- oh my god my friend keeps-

i don't know when this is going to end but-

aw that's a cute picture

so currently i am studying korean

just because i'm not in school yet

i have a week left of my break

so i get to study what i want to study

of course when i get back to school i'm studying other things but

for now i get to study korean

hopefully along the way i can find tips and stuff to tell you

but this is just a chill video of me studying korean

i'm basically showing you all the methods that i use

so hopefully this video's kinda useful

but let's just get started

the website that i use currently is howtostudykorean.com

i've also mentioned talktomeinkorean.com in the past

i'm not using that lately just because

i have a bookmark saved for howtostudykorean so i just keep going to that

but both are good websites so use whatever you want

so right now i am studying

lesson 27 on howtostudykorean

now the thing is

i'm not going in order

and that's a bad thing that's not something you should do

howtostudykorean.com has like hundreds of lessons

technically it's a good idea to go in order

but for me personally

i have a habit of jumping from lesson to lesson

because i just want to learn what i want to learn

so before lesson 27 i was on like lesson 85

and then lesson 10

lesson 40

lesson 110 so i'm just all over the place

the sad thing is i'm korean and so i have the context but

sadly i'm not fluent

but because i have the context i have the habit of just wanting to learn what i want to learn

like for instance if i wanted to learn

something that i heard in a conversation

then i'm just going to search it up on google and

see what lesson that is

and sometimes that will be like lesson 100 or something

like lesson 40

but for now we are on lesson 27 and we are learning

using ~던 and ~었던 to describe past tense

i already wrote the vocabulary now i'm just going in with the actual grammar

now i've been meaning to learn this because i hear ~던 and ~었던 a lot so

it's good that i'm finally getting into that

in regards to my notes it's pretty straightforward

it's just all the vocab and then notes on the grammar

i don't write it word for word i just write what i need to write

i used to put vocab on quizlet but now i write it out just because

handwriting's pretty important in korean so

i want to be able to practice my handwriting and so

vocab, easy way to practice your handwriting

and also

kind of memorize because

it's better to write things out

this is pretty straightforward

i just remembered i have another book dedicated to korean

and it is this notebook where i write down song lyrics

i get the lyrics from colorcodedlyrics.com

colorcodedlyrics hasn't failed me with the translations i think they're pretty accurate

it might not be 100% accurate but it gets the idea

so i write the korean lyrics along with the translation

and then the key part to all of this

is that i underline words that i don't know in red

and then i add them to the end in the new words word bank

the words that i underline will obviously be words that i don't know

so they are new words

it's kind of for me to narrow down what i don't know, what i know, that kind of stuff

and so it's pretty helpful, you know

lyrics

it's poetry and so

sometimes the lyrics might be complicated

and the words might not be words that you use in everyday language

but it's still nice to know and sometimes

you learn a lot

i've collected a lot of useful words and they've just appeared everywhere else once i learned about them

you can also write pages from books and whatever

but lyrics are available on the internet for you

and if you listen to kpop

if you listen to music that's sung in korean

lyrics are all there for you

but that is a method that i like to use

also recently i did switch to naver dictionary

in my last video i talked about google translate

but i finally moved on to naver dictionary

and i definitely like it a whole lot better

the translations have been great

but i would definitely recommend that

if you don't have anyone in your life to speak korean to

because i have my parents to speak korean with

if you don't have people to speak korean with

korean dramas korean television

korean music all that

incredibly helpful

and the reason why it's helpful is because of context

recently i learned about this grammar structure called ~다시피

and it's lesson 85 by the way

but the grammar structure ~다시피 has like a meaning of

as you can see or as you know

if you connect it with 알다 or 보다

like there's 알다시피

there's 보다시피

아시다시피

there's 보시다시피

like i've been exposed to korean all my life

but i don't recall a moment when i heard

알다시피 in a conversation

but after learning it i suddenly started hearing it everywhere i went

well that's not true i don't really go outside a lot

but when i watch a korean drama

i hear it

all the time now

the grammar structure's everywhere but

i heard it for the first time

at least consciously

in a drama called "what's wrong with secretary kim"

i finished the drama it's great love it definitely recommend

but after i learned it i finally recognized the grammar structure and i was like

oh that's when you use it

because i'm sure i probably heard it

in conversations all the time but

i probably didn't notice it but now i notice it

i also heard it for the second time

in another drama

i'm watching encounter

and i heard it and i was like

oh my god

this word is everywhere

but now i understand the grammar structure and now i can use it in my everyday life

sorry my camera died the angle's probably different but who cares

but anyway back to our regularly scheduled program

i have a friend who is kind of learning korean

she only learns korean when she's with me

but she is learning

but my friend is german

she has literally nothing to do with korea

but she's still learning

and she's actually pretty far with korean in my opinion

she can read and write hangul

and she can kind of understand some words

and she can recognize a lot of words

and i just taught her how to form basic sentences

so hopefully she remembers that but i don't know

but my point is it's not impossible to learn korean

it doesn't matter if you're korean or not

anyone can learn it

our favorite thing to do is watch bts videos or

especially run bts because that's a variety show

which by the way

a new episode's coming out tomorrow as i'm filming this

but when we watch run bts she actually recognizes a lot of words

and that makes me feel proud

that she actually knows these things

so it's definitely helpful to have some kind of media to consume

whether that's tv whether that's a book

whether that's songs, whatever you want

it's just helpful to be able to hear what you learn in context

oh my gosh i just remembered

another tip that i have for you guys

another habit i have is writing down words on sticky notes

you can also technically type words out in your notes app

but i'm emphasizing again how important it is to practice your handwriting

and so i have these sticky notes

and i'll literally, if i'm watching

a variety show or if i'm listening to a song

or if i just hear a word that i don't know

i'll jot it down and i'll find the translation

and it's there for you

i like to stick them right into my notebook just so i have them for later

but it's just very helpful to have a sticky notes pad right next to you

as you're watching something or listening to something

so you can just write down words as you go

one of my favorite korean variety shows is called the return of superman

it's about celebrity dads taking care of their children

it's really cute

but also it's very helpful

especially for people learning korean

with this show in particular the way that the children speak

is actually very helpful

because not only do you hear casual conversation

but you also hear how children speak

and so it's going to be easier grammar

and easier vocabulary and all that

and because of the editing there's always like words that pop up everywhere

and then you can just copy it down

like i said with the sticky notes

but you can actually learn a lot from these kids

and in my opinion

these kids speak way better than me

so i think it's very helpful

and it's also nice to see how

people speak to each other especially

like seeing the children speak to adults and seeing the adults speak to children

it's a nice kind of look into real life sort of

but there are a lot of variety shows and i

definitely recommend watching a variety show

because although dramas are helpful

it's also nice to hear people speak

in their vernacular

it's just nice to hear people speak casually

and also you can hear their immediate responses to something

i watch a lot of variety shows and korean dramas

so if you guys want recommendations and all that let me know

so with the examples i like to write them in red

just because it helps my brain to see things in different colors

it's also helpful to pronounce everything as you go

assuming that you already learned the pronunciation and all that

which i would recommend studying first

don't be afraid to talk to yourself

yeh

i will study the contents that we had learned last week again

attached to a verb to describe a noun

where the action is recalled to have occurred in the past

but has finished occurring and currently does not occur

mhm

yes

ah i get it now i get it now i get it now

and then finally

this one

i'm emphasizing right now

it's so important to practice your handwriting

the more that you practice writing in korean

the more muscle memory you'll build

and the faster that you can write

yes

oh wait

that's also useful

i'm gonna write that down too

oh my god there's like a graph

i should draw it ok

yea i should dang it that's so much writing ok

it's helpful it'll be good for me

this graph's kinda weird

yes?

oh ok wait

yes

ok

it's also like 10:42 pm so my contact lenses are drying out

and then the rest are just examples

so we are done with this lesson

i kind of get the idea of it it's just

like super past past tense

but that is all that my brain can do right now