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My short-term study plans:

I will alternate days for each of my study sources: 1 & 4 on Day A, 2 & 3 on Day B, et cetera.

1. GO! Billy: One to two videos from his Beginner Korean Course playlist per day, optionally re-watching yesterday’s videos (probably in the background of another task) if I’m not certain that material sunk in.

2. Korean Grammar In Use: This textbook series looks a bit daunting as an absolute beginner, so I’m only going to set my goal for this to be one page per day. If I feel the need to review yesterday’s page, that will be my only page that day.

3. Ewha Korean 1-1: I’m a big fan of Ewha Womans University, and my understanding is that when used in tandem with the study guide, their Korean language textbooks are really quite good. I want to use this in tandem with KGIU. It’s a very small textbook, but I think the information is presented quite densely? So at this stage I will set a “one concept / one point” goal per day.

4. Learn! Korean With BTS: Yes, I’m an ARMY of course. ;) This is probably the only learning source I’ll be able to approach at a beginner level that deals with one of my hobbies, so of course I have to pick it up! This seems like a very light-hearted, relaxed and fun textbook, especially with QR code videos and a talking pen. I think that I’ll end up changing how I go through this series fairly quickly, but I’m going to start by working on it casually with no set page or chapter goal in mind. This is meant to be my “fun” textbook.

Uncertain: 베이직 코리안 Basic Korean: I love the idea of learning Korean in Korean, but I’d like to have a better grasp of hangeul at least. Honestly, I’m only hesitating on adding this resource to my study plan because it’s intimidating, even though I know that approaching intimidating material is how I’ll improve! ^^;

Talk To Me In Korean: In theory, I love the material that they offer. I actually have several of their textbooks, both from their Essential Korean series and some of their other books on idioms, common words, et cetera. However, I’ve been warned off using resources which rely on romanisation and from flipping through my books, TTMIK seems to rely very heavily on romanisation. I think that when my grasp of hangeul is stronger, I’ll re-examine this source.

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