#learningkorean

After a small break from posting to focus on Korean I've noticed I have hit a new roadblock, and one I hadn't anticipated at the beginning of the year.

Over the summer I managed to pass from the Int1 class to the Int2 class with my tutor and I was absolutely bricking it when she told me this because from my studies into Beginner was a big leap in work load, and Beginner to Int1 was insanity I had 200(ish, it varied by chapter) vocab/expressions a week and it was just impossible to clear a chapter before the next one was assigned. So the thought of it going up again was not fun, however so far that's not happened. It's only been about 20 words a week but all the grammar explainations are now in Korean so that's maybe the trade off there.

However, with this dip in the immediate workload I've noticed that I don't find Korean fun anymore. I feel like I'm just doing it for class now and it's just for a deadline and I feel stagnent with my progress I feel like I'm still a beginner and I'm a fraud in the Int2 class cause I may know 1200 words but I can't use 98% of them cause I can't make sentences and express myself in Korean.

I don't know if this feeling is burnout, it doesn't feel like burnout though it's more unlike being unmotivated and just not wanting to do anything with Korean even just getting my flashcards done is a struggle right now and I'd finally got them under 200 a day after the peak of 400+ in Int1 which did slightly fry my head near the end. I've noticed before I'd do work for my class but also do things for myself like topik grammar classes, or ttmik courses, or using my books, but now it's so hard to open anything to study for fun.

So with this I've basically been pouring an unhealthy amount of hours into animal crossing *again* which I say like I haven't done the same thing in Skyrim before several times over across I think 6 save files now and 2000 hours minimum not even going into other games but shhh.

I want to try and strike a better balance for the remainder of the year, I know it's not even 3 months but I think since I'm skipping my normal end of year activities such as Inktober and NaNoWriMo because I do not have enough time/energy this year and I'm not going to try and actually burn out again like 2018 because no, it should be doable to make small changes to try and regain the fun in Korean and not hit 1000 hours in AC before November because atm that's very likely.

At the moment my plan im progress is I want to try and doing daily writing in the vain hope of getting some progress with the sentence forming thing and hopefully it will help with getting comfortable with the grammar too. My friend very kindly made me a list of topics to write about to get started so we'll see how well I can answer those. I'd also like to wrap up my topik grammar class cause it will expire soon and there's only 3 classes left of the 23 total and it probably will be useful for some of the harder propmts cause there's some tricky ones in there. Though she may say the same for the ones I gave her so I shouldn't complain.

A는 B보다 더 adjective

or

B보다 A가 더 adjective

제나퍼는 에밀리보다 더 예뻐요 - Jennifer is prettier than Emily/ Compared to Emily, Jennifer is prettier.

or 

애밀리보다 제니퍼가 더 예뻐요- Jennifer is prettier than Emily/ Compared to Emily, Jennifer is prettier.

**Trick: A보다...  Always think: Compared to A... B is more...(A보다 = compared to A..)**

More example sentences:

- 회사원이는 것보다 학생이는 것이 더 쉬워요. - Being a student is easier than being an office worker/ Compared to being an office worker, being a student is easier. 

- 방탄소년단은 갓세븐보다 더 좋아요. - BTS is better than GOT7/ Compared to GOT7, BTS is better. (Don’t come at me for this, it’s just an example sentence lmao)

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

To add emphasis to show how much better/more something is, use: 훨씬 (before 더)

- 원숭이보다 사람이 훨씬 더 똑똑해요. - People are way smarter than monkeys/ Compared to monkeys, people are way smarter.

- 달은 태양보다 훨씬 더 작아요. - The moon is way smaller than the sun/ Compared to the sun, the moon is way smaller.

- 공부보다 수영이 훨씬 더 재미있어요.- Swimming is way more fun than studying/ Compared to studying, swimming is way more fun. 

——————————————————————————————————

Mini Grammar Point: 

~에서 - out of the…. (locations)

or

~중에서 - out of all the… (groups/people)

Example sentences: 

- 학생들 중에서 민수 씨가 가장 이상해요- Out of all the students, Minsoo is the weirdest. 

- 세상에서 제일 좋아하는 케이팝 그룹이 누구예요?- Who is your favorite Kpop group in the world?