#topik prep

✨ TOPIK 6 Vocabulary ✨

I''m going to let you in on a secret. In TOPIK's writing test, it only takes you 2-3 advanced grammars to bring your writing to a higher grade, but there is no limit when it comes to vocabulary.

Personally, after living in Korea for over 3 years and having multiple chances to talk to Korean people, I learned that the only factor that differentiate people's linguistic capabilities is their vocabularies. Given the same grammar, Korean Department students surely will use more complicated and advanced words to make themselves as clear as possible.

That is the reason why I have always been telling people to focus on vocabulary when it comes to learning a new language. Whether it's Korean or English, vocabulary is the most important.

I will try to upload more posts on vocabulary (I'm actually still struggle on how to use this word, is it singular or plural...?) as well as the links to my Quizlet vocabulary sets so you can join the fam and we can all learn together~!

Link to Quizlet: quizlet.com/_9fmxxh?x=1jqt&i=1tpoqs

____________________

🟢 If you find this post helpful, please LIKE it and SHARE it with your fellow learners! 🟢 Let me know what you want to see on my blog. 🟢 My inbox is always open for questions.

____________________

10월 21일 🇰🇷 한국어.

Last night, I finished reviewing my mistakes from the last topik exam, especially the ones from the 읽기 part. After that, I studied three grammar lessons from TTMIK. The first one covered the multiple ways to say "I mean" in Korean such as 그러니까, 제 말 뜻은, ~라고/~다고, 말이에요. The second lesson was how to ask "What do you mean?" which is 무슨 말이에요? And lastly, the word builder 과 which means surpass or go over, so there were many new words and some I've been recently learning so now I understand them better.

9월 9일 🇰🇷 한국어.

I'm so damn happy!! I did the 37th TOPIK mock exam today and I got 141 points! 🎉🎉 That's exactly one point above the passing mark for level 2 and honestly if I get this score for the real exam in November, I'd still be happy. During this exam, I was way calmer than the other ones which is kinda uncommon, although I was really confused with the last paragraphs of the 읽기 part and you can see I got them all wrong. Besides this, the highlights in yellow are the ones I was between two answers and precisely the one I chose was the wrong one and the other was the right one, so that got me close to get 154 points if I chose the other one haha. Anyway, I still need to practice with more mock exams and that one is in 15 days, so I can see if this score wasn't out of luck, although that's what I thought in the last one a month ago where I got 127. I still need to practice and study so I can see the next scores around the same to this one or even better.

10월 2일 🇰🇷 한국어.

What a week! Last night, I decided to review both the 듣기 and 읽기 parts of the topik I took last week. I understood better the paragraphs or audios where I had wrong answers. I also picked some vocab which I need to put into my Quizlet account but not today, I'm tired. After doing all that, I felt I had a better understanding of Korean than a couple months ago, so even if my study method isn't perfect, I guess it's good enough for me to advance little by little and I love feeling that kind of progress.

7월 15일 🇰🇷 한국어.

Today I studied the 읽기 part of the Topik mocking exam I did last week. I read every single question since I wanted to underline the unknown vocabulary even if I answered them correctly. By the middle part of the test, I came across with a couple paragraphs I didn't understand in the practice and guess why and it's not a surprise to me but yeah: because of the unknown vocab. There were also a couple of new verbs, and even less unknown but interesting grammar points. After looking for those new words, it was so obvious the answer that I felt a bit dumb but then I had to remember myself everything I've accomplished in the language only and solely by myself and if languages were easy, well, I wouldn't be so in love with them.

10월 8일 🇰🇷 한국어.

Last night was time to practice the TOPIK with a mock exam. I did the 60th TOPIK exam where I got 173 points but in reality it was 153 points which is still amazing! 🎉🎉🎉 But why's that you might ask. Well, since I've been practicing for a long time with the ones available online, I'm now left with only three exams to practice, including the one I did yesterday. So, I'm trying to use them wisely so I can continue to have my mind ready for the TOPIK in November. However, I knew that one of those was the one my Korean tutor picked to practice and review some vocab with a couple of questions in the last class, so I knew I would knew the answer to some of those questions. Therefore, I was careful to mark the ones I knew beforehand during the exam and then just answered the rest normally. I'm telling you all this so you can know that today's results had that factor included which it doesn't take away my merits in getting a higher score than the last mock exam and that makes me happy.

8월 14일 🇰🇷 한국어.

Today I studied the 읽기 part of the TOPIK mocking exam I did last week and I'm happy because I could see there where many words and grammar points I've learned recently and probably that's why I got a better score this time. I also sat down and tried to figure out the unknown words in each question but especially those two or three paragraphs that made me feel lost while answering. We'll see if next week I get a better score that this one, hope so 🙏