Korean

I've been studying Korean on and off for the past two years, but I started actively studying in August of 2018, where I downloaded HelloTalk for the first time and started talking to native Korean speakers. Since then I spend about two to three hours per day if not more trying to communicate with native Koreans in both Korean and English, and I've gotten to the point where I can speak and read it about 60-70% of a native speaker, I still need a bit of work though. My goal is to eventually go to Korea for a trip, maybe even live there for a few years.

With any language, it's true that time and dedication are necessary. I found that learning from books, while can be pretty helpful, isn't the best way to learn a langauge. The best way to learn it is to immerse yourself by talking to native speakers who can't really speak your language. This way you won't really try to communicate in your own language, and are forced to talk in your target language. The most important thing I've found is to find one or two good partners you can practice every day. When I first started talking in Korean I had to write the sentence down, rehearse it a few times and then had my friends correct the grammar. This is something that is necessary I believe in order to become good at any language.

I will say, the basics I did have to form through a free online podcast called Talk to Me in Korean. They have been instrumental in learning the basics and some grammar points, but I felt like whenever I came across something I wanted to say, more often than not I had looked it up when talking to a friend and I knew how to say it before I came across the lesson. Attached are my summaries of TTMIK lessons, maybe they might help you if you're trying to learn. But I would strongly recommend trying to learn the basics, download any language exchange app and start trying to type in your target langauge. Perhaps you can become can also become almost fluent in a year.