About

Welcome to my blog, I hope the articles I post can be of help to you in your language learning journey. Currently my main focus is to provide Korean learners with a place to start and information on helping them become fluent. I would like people to be able to recommend this blog to new learners, as I continue to produce articles and videos to help people reach their goals.

About me

I went to Korea for the first time in 2016 for the first time. I enjoyed my time there and a big highlight for me was the food and the quality of public transport. Ever since, I have learnt to cook a few recipes and can't help but compare certain aspects of the UK with the Korean way of dealing with things.

Despite going there with zero knowledge of the language, it wasnt until September 2018 that I started learning Korean. Since I started to learn, I have never missed a day of fitting in some Korean into my life, whether that be through reading or listening. You can what I've been reading and watching since September 2019 in my tracking sheet.

I had very little exposure to the language prior to learning, I had never watched an episode of a drama all the way through, listened to a handful of songs and had pretty much no interest in the country other than the food (and my gf's nationality).

The reason I started learning was due to me being out of work and feeling like I needed to work towards something. I felt like learning a language would have added a skill to my life and I wanted to be able to talk to my in-laws in their native language, to make it less awkward for everyone.

I quickly found out through researching many different polyglots and language learners, that getting input was clearly the way to acquire a language. When I first started, I had information from Reddit to start using Talk to Me in Korean and used a few of their materials, mainly the curriculum. I would definitely call myself an Immersion learning but I do not identify with any "method."

My biggest regret was not a lot doing more outside of that because it was hard to find easy reading material and I wasn't fully aware of the power of watching content, so I would only watch around an hour a day or so.I won't write my whole journey, as it may be quite long and it should make for an interesting article. 

Early on I created the Anki decks that you can see on this very blog for my own personal use. They took months to make of typing daily for hours and one of the main reasons for starting this blog was to get them into the hands of other learners.

So I continue to learn Korean and will for the foreseeable future. I want to continue to bring information to those who seek it and become a trustable source within language learning communities. I will always appreciate feedback, so if you have anything to say whether it be, here, on a blog post or on a YouTube video of mine then please leave a comment.

The blog

So I started the blog initially so that I could share the Fluency path that I made after I had joined the now name changed MIA_Korean discord server. However on many discord servers, Reddit and other such sites I would constantly see the same questions over and over and the same types of posts with people being misguided on not only where to start but what to do and how to become fluent.

Most of my posts will be focused on guiding readers to Korean content and on how to use learner materials to optimise their learning. I currently have articles that cover questions that I frequently see, Korean learner's content reviews and the theory of different aspects of language learning.

I will try to always update the blog regularly whether that be with progress posts or a new resource. Eventually with feedback I will continue to update the fluency path to provide learners with the most up to date information. In the future I would like to provide insight on various of aspects of life that can apply to helping one become a better language learner.

YouTube

I started a YouTube channel to increase my reach in the community further, but I also felt as though it would allow me to make a different style of content that could lead to better discussions and come off as more informative for the general learner. I will try to upload at least once a week with spur of the moment videos thrown in occasionally.

I have many topics already lined up and I will always be trying to come up with new ideas. I would like to be able to make a few series of videos such as a monthly or biweekly Q&A's or reading new posts on r/Korean to highlight good and bad advice that is commonly thrown around. 

The main content will be similar to the blog except a lot more condensed. If this sounds interesting to you please subscribe, I will try to have interviews with popular YouTubers so that we can get more diverse opinions and different languages represented on the Channel.

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