How do I measure progress in my understanding Korean? I find Korean language not that difficult to understand these days. Before it used to be impossible to understand any of it. Now, I am not struggling as much.
I really want to be comfortable speaking in Korean. I want to speak it naturally. I don't want to search in my head for words or translate constantly. There is no natural immersion possible for me in Korea. I have to create an artificial immersion environment for myself. Watching dramas, watching TV, doing these conversation lessons, and reading easy to understand reading material and doing vocabulary study and refreshing the grammar knowledge now and then is the way to go. Also going through the mp3 files once in a while.
I think I have improved but don't have any concrete way of assessing this. I am much more comfortable reading Korean than I used to be. But I still am pausing at "k" and "j" because the letters look so much alike.
I should not worry and just persist. I won't see these people again in the future so I shouldn't be embarrassed about learning from them and just soak up the Korean as much as possible.
