Learning Korean: Bought some books from TTIK

I have been trying to teach myself Korean for a little while now and even though the free stuff online has helped me to learn the basics. I didn't have that much motivation because I learn best from reading a book and not online.

So since it's 2019 I decided I want to really put myself out there and take learning Korean seriously. I went to TalktomeinKorean website, I have used their site before, it is one of my sources for learning Korean but I had never bought anything before so I went to their store and I saw the books they had. They had a beginners pack which had a book on verbs 1 & 2 and other beginner books which interested me a lot. So, I decided to buy that as well as the level 1 books. When I signed in there was a test and I was still at level 1.

I decided to do their special delivery because I wanted my order to come quickly and I prefer my order to be tracked since its coming from Korea.

It was actually really quick and the tracking was very good. I order it on Sunday and it arrived on Wednesday. So, that was quite good. Everything was there and they were new books.

The easy Korean Reading book excited me because I feel as though if I can actually read Korean sentences and understand it, that will be great. That's the goal to understand and say Korean sentences.

The real life conversations book looks good too, they have audio on their website so that should help me to be able to say the basic stuff and that will also help me when I am watching kdrama's because then I will be able to understand the common phrases.

I really liked the my first 500 words book because I kinda was doing something like that because it's good to learn more words as you go along and it seems like something you can do for like 30 mins a day and the book's really pretty. I love pink <33

The verbs books, I am really excited about that because I have started learning verbs but I feel as though those books will have a clearer explanations and more structure. I won't just be learning this and that like before and it's really pretty.

Those were the books in the beginners pack. I also got the TTIK Level 1, I think most people just buy that but I wanted to do more. I probably know maybe like 10% of whats in there but the book looks really user friendly and colorful and they also have sections where they have pictures of popular places in Korea and a little paragraph about Korea. I thought that was a nice extra touch to the books.

They have a workbook for the level 1 and I am going to write on it with a pencil, I don't really care about reselling them on ebay or anything. I haven't had a workbook since school so I am quite excited about learning with the books and that is one of my goals this is to reach the end of the year and to be able to understand Korean more confidently.

Let's do this, let's learn Korean!!!!!

You Never Stop Learning

After much thought and deliberations, more like going back and forth with career options I have decided that I don't want a dead end job, I have tried that and it didn't work out well for me. I have battled with the thought of going into accounting and each time I always end up deciding not too.

So I have decided for the first time that I will learn something because I am interested in learning it not for grades or anything like that. It's also to start a new career. I have decided that I want to be a front end developer. Yaay, I am putting it out into the world.

I am already confident in html and css and the next steps is learning Javascript and the PHP and also MySQL. I have researched job requirements and stuff and it seems that, that is what they want and even if I can't get a job I know that I will be able to make some cool websites that will enable me make money for myself.

So, I will be learning that and I have also made the decision to learn a new language. Which is Korean. I have been hit by the Kpop and Kdrama bug. I think I have been watching Kdrama's for a year and a half now to two years. I think it's time I invest in learning the language.

The only other language that I attempted to learn was French and that was in Highschool. I actually got a GCSE C in that but 5 years of lessons. I can say Bonjour, the numbers up to ten and the basic greetings. I wasn't interesting in learning the language, I didn't enjoy it or had a passion for it and I think when learning anything you need to at least be interested in it so I have a lot pdf books downloaded, I have an app (eggbun) downloaded and I found a good website that will teach me Hangul which I have heard is easy to learn. The shortest time I have heard is 1 day and the longest time I have heard is 2 weeks. So will see how that will go. I'm excited. If next year this time I know Korean and I have job as a front end developer I will be very happy.