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I started Korean in January 2020 with one simple goal.
6 months until graduation.
Get fluent enough to surprise Mrs. Jeon with a thank you speech in Korean.
I thought 6 months to fluency was reasonable.
COVID canceled graduation.
Never got to give her that letter.
But something unexpected happened.
I fell in love with the language itself.
Kept going.
2022: Got accepted at Yonsei in Seoul.
My first time ever stepping foot in Korea.
Took poli sci classes entirely in Korean as the only non-Korean in the classroom.
Made incredible lifelong friends.
Played basketball on the Yonsei team.
And all of this happened within 3 years of the day I decided to learn.
Two years later, I was working in a Senate office on Foreign Affairs in East Asia.
Start with one reason.
Stay for the life it builds that you never imagined.
Ademola 주목혁 retweeted
Subtitles aren't evil. They're a tool.
But if you want to understand natives w/o reading, you need dedicated subtitle-free listening sessions.
Subtitles = reading practice
No subtitles = listening practice
Don't confuse the two.
Ademola 주목혁 retweeted
Your intelligence hurts your language progress.
Smart people want efficiency
Languages require inefficient exposure
Smart people demand explanations
Acquisition happens below consciousness
Your greatest strength becomes
your subtle limitation
Sometimes wisdom means
becoming temporarily foolish.
When someone tries my app, I don't show them a plan first.
I have them set up their day.
When it starts, when it ends, how much they want to immerse.
Then their plan lands inside a day that's already theirs.
Ademola 주목혁 retweeted
Treat language learning like nutrition:
Apps:
fast food (convenient, not nourishing)
Grammar books:
vitamins (useful, not meals)
Native content:
whole foods (what your brain needs)
Conversation practice:
cooking (applying what you've consumed)
You can't live on supplements alone.
To everyone who thinks they're behind in their language:
Be delusional about where you'll be in 6 months.
Then go do the shit.
If you don't believe you can, the answer is delusion.
If you're delusional, the answer is action.
If you're acting, the answer is time.
Ademola 주목혁 retweeted
What if treating language learning as "forever"
is actually the fastest path to fluency?
Remove the finish line and you might just run faster.
You don't need to live in the country.
You don't need a tutor.
You don't need a class.
You don't need a degree.
You need a way past the tools you use now, to the tools used by the people you want to be in the same room with.
People will watch 40 videos about how to learn Korean instead of one Korean show.
Without the action, your learning is just another procrastination.
Ademola 주목혁 retweeted
Be a failure at Korean.
Start conversations and stumble through them. Watch content and miss half the jokes. Read articles and google every third word.
Everyone who speaks Korean fluently did exactly this.
The only difference is they kept failing until they succeeded.
A passport for the languages you're learning
- A page for every language
- A stamp for every Weekly Challenge
- A visa for every Sprint you finish
Coming to Immersed.
You will not get fluent in 6 months.
But you need to believe you will.
The second you stop believing you can is the second you quit.
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Language learning isn’t linear.
Some days you'll feel unstoppable, other days it’s like you’ve forgotten everything.
What matters is showing up, over and over again.
Progress hides in the grind, you just have to trust the process.
Koreans say "절대 잊지마 네가 얼마나 사랑받는지"
(jeol-dae it-ji-ma ne-ga eol-ma-na sa-rang-bat-neun-ji).
Literal: "Never forget how much you are loved."
Meaning: "Don't ever forget how loved you are. Ever."
The message you want burned into their memory.
Koreans say "네가 있으면 마음이 편해"
(nee-ga i-sseu-myeon ma-eum-i pyeon-hae).
Literal: "When you're here, my heart is comfortable."
Meaning: "You feel like home."
Comfort in human form.