leosmith wrote:Does this help?
Well thats about word spacing, I was meaning where words can be broken. Evita seems to be right that Korean words can pretty much be broken anywhere which makes it surprisingly hard for me to read! Luckily it's not done very often (at least in this book Im reading).
Anyhow, on to a short update because it's been a while:
Not much has happened. Work has been crazy busy and as such updating this log fell behind because I'd rather spend the few minutes trying to get my Korean study done! I've largely kept to an hour a day, but a couple days have been more like 40 - 60 minutes.
When the pressure is on, its hard to make time to do output but I managed to keep at least some writing going. It's too early to tell how well things are going but hopefully in a few months I'll get a feel as to how much I think the following aspects are contributing to my learning:
* Increased focus on output, particularly writing.
* Writing in a physical journal with a pen rather than on PC.
I have high hopes for the outcome. I mean it has to work. Because if July comes and it seems I have still large basic gaps in my knowledge of Korean then I'd have no idea where to turn.
My wife has been occasionally talking to me in Korean. Not conversational, but simple things like asking how long our son slept at daycare or whether I need to work late, or work on the weekend. I can't bring myself to try mangle an answer in Korean so I still answer in English but at least I'm understanding it now.
Now you may be thinking: Surely if he is listening and following some intermediate level dialog then this should be trivial?
And the reply would be: I know everyone on this forums understands that in some ways its apples and oranges! It would seem my understanding drops considerably if the Korean I am hearing is unexpected and without context. For some of the material I listen to, I cannot recall exactly what was said but I do recall the topic, some parts of the dialog, sometimes the order in which the topic changes...
So it places even more emphasis on me starting to watch some Korean dramas. I said I would. I began with one episode but never did any more. That needs to resume I think!