Hello girls! I hope you are doing awesome today. This is the first update of the 90-day journey I am doing to improve my speaking skills in Korean.
First of all I need to say this: It’s been harder than I though. I did think that it wasn’t going to be so easy, because I needed to put in the effort and move out of my comfort zone. But I never though that improving my speaking skills would be a slow process.
Maybe it’s because the only other language I feel fluent at speaking is English, which is a language I learnt every week during school (since I was six years old) and then I continued practising in during University. So I cannot really remember in which moment I started to be able to speak in English.
Apart from the difficulties I’ve been having with the language I realized I was putting too many things on my plate: job, house chores, cooking, practising Korean with my previous schedule (using the personalized language curriculum template I designed), social life, doing challenges from other content creators, having some relaxation time for myself, and on top of that doing the 90-day journey task…
At the end of the day I felt like practicing Korean was just another task to be completed before the day ended, and I truly don’t like feeling that.
So in order to enjoy learning Korean again (and also getting to improve my speaking skills), I am thinking on changing the activities I always do. I will try new ones and see if I enjoy them more. It’s not like the activities I’ve been doing so far are boring or useless, but I’ve been doing them on repeat every single week, so that’s why I am not enjoying them like before.
In case you were wondering, the activities I did do during this past week, were: reading song’s lyrics out loud (three times in a row), practicing my intonation, imitating native speakers saying key phrases in Youtube videos and K-dramas (I was watching Boys Over Flowers and Crash Landing on You).
As I said before, I put so many things on my plate during this past week that some days I forgot to practice speaking or simply chose not to do it because I was so tired. Maybe this week I will try to study Korean first thing in the morning!
If you want to listen to my weekly update audio (which you can take as a podcast episode), you can find it below this paragraph!
I hope you enjoyed this update, specially if you are also feeling bad in relation to your improvements in your target language. Always remember to enjoy the journey!
Have a beautiful day ahead,
Sofía xx
