Floor3a

Hello everyone! You can call me Floor or Flo. I am creating this account to update my study progress. I am planning to take IELTS and TOPIK 3 next year so you will see me posting a lot about language study.

Feel free to DM me to talk about anything^__^

About me

I love reading classics books (Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

My hobbies are playing PC games and watching anime

I already graduated and am currently enjoying my work life while studying language and doing my hobbies

My other social media

(TBA)

Goals

Vocabulary (어휘):

가게: Store, shop

백화점: Department store

슈퍼마켓: Supermarket

시장: Market

카트: Cart

Day 1/100 of productivity

Happy New Year 2025! I hope everyone had a great time celebrating new year.

Today I went to the coffee shop nearby to study Korean. The topic I have covered:

Grammar points: giving direction, 있다 location

Sentence exercise

Reading short text

I hope this year of snake brings you good luck and health!! Also, all the best for your Korean learning journey!!💗🩷💗

Thank you so much^^

Happy New Year to you too!

Wishing you a lovely 2025. May this year you are filled with happiness, luck, and better health. Good luck on your Korean learning journey too<3

Last day of 2024.

Spending New Year's eve reading a book and hanging out with friends.

I was planning to learn Korean in 2025. Any tips that might help me?? (I tried to learn Korean earlier, too, but the pronunciation and grammar were making me go crazy).

Have a good day!! 🍀🩷

Hellooo!

For beginner I usually start with textbook, I'm using Korean Grammar in Use right now. I think the book covers almost all the basic so it's recommended for beginners👌

Some of my tips are:

- Writing: write your own sentences after study a grammar point. I usually try to make 5 example sentences of my own for each grammar point. This helps me remember the structure also understand vocabularies with context. Once you are comfortable enough, you can start write daily journal in Korean.

Oh!! Also it's totally okay to use dictionary/google translate if you are not sure about something.

- Reading: If I want to read a longer text in Korean I usually just type any topic in Korean and click the top website. If you want to challenge yourself try to read instructions or tutorial in Korean. Sometimes I do the silly like 트위터 다크모드 변경 방법 (How to change Twitter dark mode) and just try to read everything.

- Reading (part 2): If you want to read for funsies you can try read Webtoon! In App store it's called 네이버 웹툰. You can start from slice of life genre since the vocabulary are mostly used in daily life. It's so fun to read like this because there's visual to understand the context.

- Speaking/Pronunciation: well technically it's hard to practice this if you don't have friends to talk to but you can try shadowing. Look for any Korean video/vlog and then try to shadow the way they talk. For beginners you can start with 0.25 speed. You can also try to read aloud while reading Korean words. Fake it til you make it.

- Immersion: The point is to use your target language like your native language. Use Korean as your phone language, write your grocery shopping in Korean, play games using Korean dub/sub etc. I know some people always recommend to use language app to study but personally it's more like complementary rather than the main source.

- Last but not least.... always have fun while learning language :D

2025 Language Goals

Take TOPIK 3 Exam

Finish a book in Korean

Play a game using Korean subtitles (Silent Hill/Mouthwashing/Resident Evil) - preferably story based game

Study Goals:

For 2025, I'm planning to focus on my Korean study. My daily routines will be

Learn grammar and vocabularies for 30-60 minutes

Watch Korean Youtube without Eng subtitle (for listening)

Read one Korean news

Daily journaling

I'll restart my day of productivity post on January 1st since I'm currently on holiday now and I can't upload my study progress like the usual.

Day 6/100 of productivity

Hello everyone, how was your day?

Today I revised 5 grammar points from KGIU and then I made shopping vocabulary + example sentences. It was so fun because as I learn new words, I also learn how to use them in sentences by context. I will do this kind of study regularly and see how fast can my Korean improve.

Hello everyone!

Ah, finally finished revising KGIU book! I will practice each grammar point while trying to going through TOPIK 1 & 2 vocabularies lol.

Also, I tried to play Stardew Valley in Korean since I want to include the language in my daily life. It's been fun.

Day 4/100 of productivity

Another study session with BOYNEXTDOOR!

Today I tried to read Korean short story, it's called Hongbu Nolbu. I think it's easier to memorize vocabularies when you study them with context, like in reading for example. Also, when you read in Korean you passively learn how to structure a sentence.

After studying, I went to this dessert shop near my place. I bought this matcha ice cream and it tastes great! Definitely my favorite.

Day 3/100 of productivity

Hello everyone!

I'm halfway done with KGIU book. Also today I did vocabulary practice for TOPIK 1 and 2.

Other than studying, today I went to the gym, read a book, and cleaned my room.

Day 2/100 of productivity

Hello everyone!

So many things happened in life recently but I'm here again posting about my language learning progress.

I've been catching up Korean Grammar in Use book. I've noticed that I can understand simple Korean sentences here but it took me awhile to make/create sentences. So I'm going to work on that too.

Day 1/100 of productivity

November 14th, 2024

Re-learning Korean again after 5 years... Staring from the basic.