Notes: 1. 1:17 Switch phone system language to target language + (Using a VPN) 2. 3:54 Communication with a native speaker (Feedback is important) 3. 8:43 Consume your passion 100% in target language (Learn "Jargon" and other amazing vocab!) Watch the full video for Julie's nuggets of wisdom Thank you for your insightful tips!
Oh, that’s good to know! You mean for RUclips, right? When I used a Japanese VPN, it wasn’t just RUclips, it was a lot of different websites I used, so I thought it’d just be easier to use a VPN, since I think a lot of people use VPNs nowadays.
@@julesytooshoesI get more Korean ads on various sites when my phone's language is set to Korean, but even when it's not, RUclips will still show some Korean ads along with some English if I'm watching content in Korean, ie meant for a Korean audience.
My new favorite content creator. 🎉. Some really good suggestions. We go to 또봉이 치킨 and every 5 minutes their own ad plays. It’s the same one over and over. After the 10th time, I started telling my wife what was being said in the ad.
I LOVE that you made this video. actually i am just so glad to find your channel! I'm in Korea now and oh, it's the hardest language i've ever studied ( and i've studied many including Arabic! and Japanese - I find Korean to be so much harder than either of these. ) It's the grammar, the way sounds and endings are dropped, but there are so many particles, and it's not very phonetic given the pachim changes, so i have wanted to give up a lot because i've been here for a year now and i still feel like my korean is so bad. i know basics and rules with grammar if i read a textbook. but when i'm in the midst of every day conversation, i just don't know what is wrong with me - why can't i understand every single word they use? it's not even that they speak FAST persay, it's just, for some reason it confuses me so much. maybe because when people speak, it's a very different thing altogether =(
Korean has a lot of systematic pronunciation changes that are hard to get used to. Plus, the grammar is reversed for so many people who are non-Korean speakers. And like you said, the particles are confusing, but there’s actually not that many of them (once you understand them, they don’t seem like a lot anymore 😁). I hope you’ll keep trying, and I’m going to keep making videos to help as well. Hwaiting!!
@@julesytooshoes yes keep making videos! May i ask qhat made you interest in the first place with language and linguistics. Do you reside now in Korea?
@@sheeliekittie9298 I first got interested in linguistics in college (I had never heard of it before), and I found it it so fun and interesting. Linguistics is the scientific study of languages, but I never thought of languages in the way my linguistics class taught me to think - for example, most languages don't have consonant clusters (i.e. something like "cl" or "st"), which makes English very rare in that sense. Most European languages don't have tones, but more than 60% of the world's languages have tones (mostly China, Southeast Asia and Africa). And I do live in Korea now :)
@@julesytooshoes wow i never thought of these aspects! I think it is indeed a fascinating topic. Im in incheon, currently teaching ESL. Where do you reside =) so do you think i can still learn the language? I feel sad because i live here 1 year now and i dont think i made any progress. I prefer to save money and self study. I dont want to give up but oh, korean so hard!
@@sheeliekittie9298 I want to say there’s no reason you can’t learn Korean, but I also know ESL teachers in Korea have a really tough work schedule and most don’t really have the energy or time to learn Korean while here. So just take it slowly, one step at a time. You might not become fluent but intermediate is still very doable!
I like many of your points in the video, but I think two people who are speaking to each other in different languages, it’s not unnatural many people do this in their household for several different reasons (that has nothing to do with language practice). I think for some it can be middle ground and still helps people to learn. Technically, understanding things are technically not processed in language but deeper than that which is why we can struggle to find yours to express and communicate in our native languages at times.
It’s not unnatural to do it out of necessity but it’s not a good idea for improving language fluency. I’ll just give you a personal example: I grew up in a Chinese-speaking household but we immigrated from China to America when I was in elementary school. I was 100% fluent in Chinese, but because my surroundings were suddenly all English, I started to speak English to my parents and they’d respond in Chinese. I deeply regret this now, because for many years I was afraid to speak Chinese due to not having spoken it for a long time. I also didn’t really pick up some more complicated vocab and grammar due to simply hearing it - I wasn’t absorbing it. I was quite rusty for a good 3-5 years after I decided I’d only speak to my parents in Chinese again. As this video is about gaining language fluency, that’s why I brought this up. It’s better to speak the target language completely in a conversation, if your goal is fluency. To improve in a language, you have to push yourself outside of your comfort range, instead of falling back on what you’re comfortable with. Hope this makes sense :)
hi thank you for your video!! it totally makes sense to practice talking only in korean because my friend (a native speaker) is actually doing me a FAVOR by correcting basic grammar phrases that i said wrong and/or sound unnatural. when studying Korean, i can’t ever tell if what i’m writing is what people SAY in real life 😢😅 and really really want to transition from beginner to intermediate. So yes thank you!! Will be putting these in practice. p.s: sorry for the long comment ❤ 😊
Thank you so much for this video!! It will help me in the future. I'm A2 now can you think doing the same video from beginner to intermediate please? Have an amazing day!
Great to hear! Hmm, can you tell me what your goal for learning up to intermediate Korean is? I think in terms of level, it would be a good idea to think about TOPIK: there are 6 levels, so I think if you're A2 maybe you're at TOPIK 2 level, and might want to get to TOPIK 3-4 level. From beginner to intermediate usually involves a good deal of exposure to grammar and new vocab...what have you been doing in this arena?
@@julesytooshoes In 9months/1year I'm about to do a working holiday in Korea. I want to be able to speak comfortably. Thank you for your advice! I will check the TOPIK. I'm dividing my learning in 3 categories: Vocabulary, Grammar and Listening/Writing since now but I'm reaaaaally afraid to speak..
Something that is really underrated that I never see anyone talking about is streaming in your target language. Or just looking at comments in other live streams. It was my way of not having to language exchange at all and find people who were just interested in foreigners. But, I did this for Japanese. I'd like to get better at korean before I try this again so back to language exchange I guess 😆
I have learned korean since 2 years but i watch kdrama since 15 years and it helps me so much, i'm intermediate level b1 but my speaking skill is A2 i think, i can speak korean but i practice less my speaking, i do exchange language online, i can speak to them in korean and i can understand well but my pronunciation and intonation i think aren't as good, not like native speaker, i know i have to work on this, i want to sound like native speaker with my pronunciation and intonation but it's not as good yet
I think it would be a good idea to get your speaking skills close to your listening skills. Obviously an important factor is to talk to natives in real life, but if that's hard, I would do a 5-10 minute Korean vlog everyday. You can just simply do it after school/work, before you go to bed, and talk about what you did that day, and what you have to do the next day. The more you practice outloud, the better you'll get. Hwaiting!
@@julesytooshoes Yes thank you, i participated 2 times to an online exchange language, with one i speak only in korean and for the other he can speak french so i speak little french too to him, yes i know it's better to speak only in korean but the other one had a very good level of french lol. For my speaking skill, i can speak korean but not with a very good intonation and pronunciation, i think i still have a foreign accent and i need to practice more my pronunciation and intonation in korean and i need to speak with more high conversation, not too basic conversation because i know how to present myself etc.
@@newjeansfan238 The hardest part is to speak to natives, even when we know was have limited grammar and expression skills, so you've already overcome the hard part! For language exchange, I think it's better to talk more to the one who's not very good at French, because with the one who's good at French, you guys will keep talking in French. Like I said, the "mutually better" language of two people usually is the one that gets spoken most often. To improve your confidence in speaking to Koreans who don't speak French or English well, I would recommend the daily Korean vlog I mentioned earlier. Just opening your mouth and speaking the language regularly makes a huge difference. Hwaiting!
@@julesytooshoes ok thank you, i don't do daily vlog speaking in korean, i'm not youtuber but record myself like a podcast to talk about a kdrama i can do it in korean but i didn't do yet, record myself speaking and repeat a kdrama scene with the korean script i can try it even if i didn't do that yet, i still have a foreign accent when i speak in korean, i can record myself to see my mistake, the hardest is to speak in korean with right intonation and be fluid i can't do it yet even if i can speak in korean. I can read and understand korean in reading webtoon in korean, i read one that isn't too easy and not too difficult, intermediate level and it's surprised me i can understand 90% and just little vocabulary i didn't know
I made a video about this on IG: instagram.com/reel/DBlS5C4vIei/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Please look for "Moii" on the App store either on iOS or Android :)
I personally don’t find switching my phone to be useful because I already know where everything is. Muscle memory wins most of the time and so I don’t read any of it. I prefer to play games in my target language because then I’m forced to read at least some of it. Maybe it’s just a me thing though. Edit: ayyyy games were mentioned. I am typing this as I’m watching btw so I don’t forget anything lol
I'm learning English watching anime and reading books it's really difficult we have to add Anki to learn new vocabulary 1 year you will understand your favorites movies 🎉
I think it’s a great idea! Because we don’t pick up everything on the first or even second watch. You could also write down new words on a “Movie Vocab List” :)
@@stoic543 I think it's possible you're not watching the right kind of content. Is there absolutely no content you can sit through twice or more? For example, do you have a favorite variety show (Korea has so many good ones) or animated series (again, Korea has so many good ones)? Even if you'e not watching the exact same thing over and over, if its a series, it's helpful to watch/listen to the same series, because they'll reference what they did in the previous episodes. Also, as this a Bonus Challenge, you don't *have* to do this. It's only helpful if you find it helpful. If it's too frustrating, then just ignore it :)
Yeah, but work on your understanding first. I feel like it doesn’t help to speak to natives if i can’t even understand what there’re saying. And by „not understanding“ i mean - just understanding the gist, not the details
Basically this is to make sure the “packaging” of the video is the same as the first2 20-30 seconds of the video, so people who watch the video can make sure they’re “getting what they paid for,” so to speak.
This plan is for intermediate learners, so you should be able to read many characters already. Chinese is a bit different from other languages, as it’s not a phonetic script. If you can’t read any of the characters, then I would hold off on changing the phone language for now :)
Notes:
1. 1:17 Switch phone system language to target language + (Using a VPN)
2. 3:54 Communication with a native speaker (Feedback is important)
3. 8:43 Consume your passion 100% in target language (Learn "Jargon" and other amazing vocab!)
Watch the full video for Julie's nuggets of wisdom
Thank you for your insightful tips!
Thank you for this!! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
You don't always need a VPN for getting ads and suggestions in a foreign language, you can change the location and the language in the settings.
Oh, that’s good to know! You mean for RUclips, right? When I used a Japanese VPN, it wasn’t just RUclips, it was a lot of different websites I used, so I thought it’d just be easier to use a VPN, since I think a lot of people use VPNs nowadays.
@@julesytooshoes Yes, I mean for RUclips.
@@julesytooshoesI get more Korean ads on various sites when my phone's language is set to Korean, but even when it's not, RUclips will still show some Korean ads along with some English if I'm watching content in Korean, ie meant for a Korean audience.
Facts. I know I've made it, when I start getting RUclips ads in Chinese 😆 (Just off my watch history)
Thanks for the suggestions. Going to start these tomorrow.
No problem! Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions :)
My new favorite content creator. 🎉. Some really good suggestions. We go to 또봉이 치킨 and every 5 minutes their own ad plays. It’s the same one over and over. After the 10th time, I started telling my wife what was being said in the ad.
Thank you so much!
I LOVE that you made this video. actually i am just so glad to find your channel! I'm in Korea now and oh, it's the hardest language i've ever studied ( and i've studied many including Arabic! and Japanese - I find Korean to be so much harder than either of these. ) It's the grammar, the way sounds and endings are dropped, but there are so many particles, and it's not very phonetic given the pachim changes, so i have wanted to give up a lot because i've been here for a year now and i still feel like my korean is so bad. i know basics and rules with grammar if i read a textbook. but when i'm in the midst of every day conversation, i just don't know what is wrong with me - why can't i understand every single word they use? it's not even that they speak FAST persay, it's just, for some reason it confuses me so much. maybe because when people speak, it's a very different thing altogether =(
Korean has a lot of systematic pronunciation changes that are hard to get used to. Plus, the grammar is reversed for so many people who are non-Korean speakers. And like you said, the particles are confusing, but there’s actually not that many of them (once you understand them, they don’t seem like a lot anymore 😁). I hope you’ll keep trying, and I’m going to keep making videos to help as well. Hwaiting!!
@@julesytooshoes yes keep making videos! May i ask qhat made you interest in the first place with language and linguistics. Do you reside now in Korea?
@@sheeliekittie9298 I first got interested in linguistics in college (I had never heard of it before), and I found it it so fun and interesting. Linguistics is the scientific study of languages, but I never thought of languages in the way my linguistics class taught me to think - for example, most languages don't have consonant clusters (i.e. something like "cl" or "st"), which makes English very rare in that sense. Most European languages don't have tones, but more than 60% of the world's languages have tones (mostly China, Southeast Asia and Africa). And I do live in Korea now :)
@@julesytooshoes wow i never thought of these aspects! I think it is indeed a fascinating topic. Im in incheon, currently teaching ESL. Where do you reside =) so do you think i can still learn the language? I feel sad because i live here 1 year now and i dont think i made any progress. I prefer to save money and self study. I dont want to give up but oh, korean so hard!
@@sheeliekittie9298 I want to say there’s no reason you can’t learn Korean, but I also know ESL teachers in Korea have a really tough work schedule and most don’t really have the energy or time to learn Korean while here. So just take it slowly, one step at a time. You might not become fluent but intermediate is still very doable!
I like many of your points in the video, but I think two people who are speaking to each other in different languages, it’s not unnatural many people do this in their household for several different reasons (that has nothing to do with language practice). I think for some it can be middle ground and still helps people to learn. Technically, understanding things are technically not processed in language but deeper than that which is why we can struggle to find yours to express and communicate in our native languages at times.
It’s not unnatural to do it out of necessity but it’s not a good idea for improving language fluency. I’ll just give you a personal example: I grew up in a Chinese-speaking household but we immigrated from China to America when I was in elementary school. I was 100% fluent in Chinese, but because my surroundings were suddenly all English, I started to speak English to my parents and they’d respond in Chinese. I deeply regret this now, because for many years I was afraid to speak Chinese due to not having spoken it for a long time. I also didn’t really pick up some more complicated vocab and grammar due to simply hearing it - I wasn’t absorbing it. I was quite rusty for a good 3-5 years after I decided I’d only speak to my parents in Chinese again. As this video is about gaining language fluency, that’s why I brought this up. It’s better to speak the target language completely in a conversation, if your goal is fluency. To improve in a language, you have to push yourself outside of your comfort range, instead of falling back on what you’re comfortable with. Hope this makes sense :)
hi thank you for your video!! it totally makes sense to practice talking only in korean because my friend (a native speaker) is actually doing me a FAVOR by correcting basic grammar phrases that i said wrong and/or sound unnatural. when studying Korean, i can’t ever tell if what i’m writing is what people SAY in real life 😢😅 and really really want to transition from beginner to intermediate. So yes thank you!! Will be putting these in practice.
p.s: sorry for the long comment ❤ 😊
Thank you so much!❤ 너무 감사합니다!
You’re welcome! :)
Thank you so much for this video!! It will help me in the future. I'm A2 now can you think doing the same video from beginner to intermediate please? Have an amazing day!
Great to hear! Hmm, can you tell me what your goal for learning up to intermediate Korean is? I think in terms of level, it would be a good idea to think about TOPIK: there are 6 levels, so I think if you're A2 maybe you're at TOPIK 2 level, and might want to get to TOPIK 3-4 level. From beginner to intermediate usually involves a good deal of exposure to grammar and new vocab...what have you been doing in this arena?
@@julesytooshoes In 9months/1year I'm about to do a working holiday in Korea. I want to be able to speak comfortably. Thank you for your advice! I will check the TOPIK. I'm dividing my learning in 3 categories: Vocabulary, Grammar and Listening/Writing since now but I'm reaaaaally afraid to speak..
Something that is really underrated that I never see anyone talking about is streaming in your target language. Or just looking at comments in other live streams. It was my way of not having to language exchange at all and find people who were just interested in foreigners. But, I did this for Japanese. I'd like to get better at korean before I try this again so back to language exchange I guess 😆
What do you mean by streaming? You mean video games?
感谢你的推荐！最近我感觉我的中文水平没有进步，希望明年可以通过HSK6的考试，不过生词越来越多，把我的头脑乱七八糟🥲我已经还在做你推荐的活动，但是我要多看中文的电视剧，打中文的电脑游戏。有时候我感觉失望大部分听不懂，但看完你的视频后我会坚持，把我的水平改变流利！谢谢！
哇，真的很感谢你留了这么长的留言！我个人觉得，听力还是最重要的。边听中文边看字幕会更有助于强化你的词汇量。不要气馁，每一个学外语的人都在经历着和你一样的困难。明年的HSK考试，加油！
I have learned korean since 2 years but i watch kdrama since 15 years and it helps me so much, i'm intermediate level b1 but my speaking skill is A2 i think, i can speak korean but i practice less my speaking, i do exchange language online, i can speak to them in korean and i can understand well but my pronunciation and intonation i think aren't as good, not like native speaker, i know i have to work on this, i want to sound like native speaker with my pronunciation and intonation but it's not as good yet
I think it would be a good idea to get your speaking skills close to your listening skills. Obviously an important factor is to talk to natives in real life, but if that's hard, I would do a 5-10 minute Korean vlog everyday. You can just simply do it after school/work, before you go to bed, and talk about what you did that day, and what you have to do the next day. The more you practice outloud, the better you'll get. Hwaiting!
@@julesytooshoes Yes thank you, i participated 2 times to an online exchange language, with one i speak only in korean and for the other he can speak french so i speak little french too to him, yes i know it's better to speak only in korean but the other one had a very good level of french lol. For my speaking skill, i can speak korean but not with a very good intonation and pronunciation, i think i still have a foreign accent and i need to practice more my pronunciation and intonation in korean and i need to speak with more high conversation, not too basic conversation because i know how to present myself etc.
@@newjeansfan238 The hardest part is to speak to natives, even when we know was have limited grammar and expression skills, so you've already overcome the hard part! For language exchange, I think it's better to talk more to the one who's not very good at French, because with the one who's good at French, you guys will keep talking in French. Like I said, the "mutually better" language of two people usually is the one that gets spoken most often. To improve your confidence in speaking to Koreans who don't speak French or English well, I would recommend the daily Korean vlog I mentioned earlier. Just opening your mouth and speaking the language regularly makes a huge difference. Hwaiting!
@@julesytooshoes ok thank you, i don't do daily vlog speaking in korean, i'm not youtuber but record myself like a podcast to talk about a kdrama i can do it in korean but i didn't do yet, record myself speaking and repeat a kdrama scene with the korean script i can try it even if i didn't do that yet, i still have a foreign accent when i speak in korean, i can record myself to see my mistake, the hardest is to speak in korean with right intonation and be fluid i can't do it yet even if i can speak in korean. I can read and understand korean in reading webtoon in korean, i read one that isn't too easy and not too difficult, intermediate level and it's surprised me i can understand 90% and just little vocabulary i didn't know
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Thank you and how we get korean friend on online or which app please tell me
I made a video about this on IG: instagram.com/reel/DBlS5C4vIei/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Please look for "Moii" on the App store either on iOS or Android :)
Tandem is a great app to know people from other places 🙂
I personally don’t find switching my phone to be useful because I already know where everything is. Muscle memory wins most of the time and so I don’t read any of it. I prefer to play games in my target language because then I’m forced to read at least some of it. Maybe it’s just a me thing though.
Edit: ayyyy games were mentioned. I am typing this as I’m watching btw so I don’t forget anything lol
I'm learning English watching anime and reading books it's really difficult we have to add Anki to learn new vocabulary 1 year you will understand your favorites movies 🎉
You can do it!
Anyone have a different link to the printout? I can’t get it to work
Hello, there seems to be an issue with the URL shortener. Here’s the link: drive.google.com/file/d/1u3h3E4nBbSDoVqlb_JyvjAhE48FD7Q0P/view?usp=drivesdk
Do you recommend we should a movie multiple times ?
I think it’s a great idea! Because we don’t pick up everything on the first or even second watch. You could also write down new words on a “Movie Vocab List” :)
@@julesytooshoes but we tend to get bored if we watch something hing more than once .how can. we deal with that ?
@@stoic543watch a better movie 😅
@@stoic543 I think it's possible you're not watching the right kind of content. Is there absolutely no content you can sit through twice or more? For example, do you have a favorite variety show (Korea has so many good ones) or animated series (again, Korea has so many good ones)? Even if you'e not watching the exact same thing over and over, if its a series, it's helpful to watch/listen to the same series, because they'll reference what they did in the previous episodes.
Also, as this a Bonus Challenge, you don't *have* to do this. It's only helpful if you find it helpful. If it's too frustrating, then just ignore it :)
Yeah, but work on your understanding first. I feel like it doesn’t help to speak to natives if i can’t even understand what there’re saying. And by „not understanding“ i mean - just understanding the gist, not the details
Why do all videos have a "coming up" part in the beginning? We can read the thumbnail and title 😂 I always skip through this
Basically this is to make sure the “packaging” of the video is the same as the first2 20-30 seconds of the video, so people who watch the video can make sure they’re “getting what they paid for,” so to speak.
Instructions unclear, switched phone language to Chinese, can't even read anything.
This plan is for intermediate learners, so you should be able to read many characters already. Chinese is a bit different from other languages, as it’s not a phonetic script. If you can’t read any of the characters, then I would hold off on changing the phone language for now :)
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i am still in basic level no matter how hard I try, i am not able to break my platue even trying and learning very hard for 1 year.
Can you tell me what language you're learning, and what types of methods you're using to learn?