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KoREa-Canada Blog 2015

such as dramaload. a quick search on your favorite search engine will yield hundreds of
other good sites. Finally, use amazon’s awesome “language” filter and look for popular books
in Korean and get them mailed to you directly at your doorstep.

YoU’LL FeeL LiKe YoU’Ve reaCHed a PLaTeaU. don’T GiVe UP

almost everybody, no matter how
Fluency Fluency
experienced they are at learning
languages, feels like they stop making
progress in their target language at one
point or another in time. That’s
normal. I’ve written a detailed post
Time Time
about reaching plateaus, so you might
Imagined learning curve Actual learning curve
(diminishing returns) want to have a look at it.

Essentially, a lot of us feel like we reach plateaus at a certain point in time while in fact
all what’s happening is that we simply learn at a slower pace. at the beginning when you
start from a blank slate, you feel like you’re making a lot of progress quickly, since it’s easy
to see how many new words you can now recognize compared to the previous day or
week. However, as time goes by, the same amount of time invested in learning a language
will yield smaller returns; in other words, our learning curve is not linear, but rather round-
shaped. don’t worry about it and remind yourself that it’s absolutely normal to feel this
way. Just keep enjoying the language and don’t give up!

MaKe THe LanGUaGe ParT oF YoUr LiFe
Think about this for a moment: what are the things that you do every day in your native
tongue? Just how many hours a day do you spend watching TV, reading the news, and
talking with friends? once you’ve reached a low intermediate level in the language, it’s time
to really make it part of your life.

Whatever you enjoy doing in your native tongue can be enjoyed in a foreign language.
don’t see Korean as something you have to “study”, but rather something you can enjoy.
Plus, make an effort to really immerse yourself in the language, by, for example, changing
your language settings to Korean for things such as Facebook, YouTube, or even on your
cellphone.

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