and other places like that taking advantage of any free moments I have, then I think I can learn fifty words a day. If I learn that many a day, then I will need about 120 more days to learn all the vocab I need. 120 days is four months. At that point I will have reached the six month mark. Then I can spend the next six months refining my learning. I don't know if I can do that for the next four months - ramming down vocab. I think it will be difficult to do doing purely that. I will be tempted to read and so on. Maybe I should break it up a bit. It will be hard finding vocab without doing some reading. I might have to hunt down and learn vocab and then do some reading. Otherwise I might forget to read the material at a later date. I think it's artificial to just learn vocab for months at a time. I think I will have to do some video watching and some reading as well. I think that's OK so long as you learn the vocab beforehand in the case of reading. And I shouldn't stress out if I still can't understand the reading well - the reading might have grammar that I haven't learned yet.
And I also need to spend some time learning colloquial Korean. St Marie is so hard. Even with the English translation, and looking up the vocab in the dictionary, I still couldn't make sense of the dialog.
I think in St Marie's case, I should just make a vocab list and not attempt to understand the reading. I will just learn the vocab. When my grammar and understanding of colloquial Korean improves, I will return to St Marie and that time, try and understand the sentences.
I think on a two hour train journey - going to the destination and coming back, I can learn about 20 words or even more. The longest part involves making mnemonics for the words. It's getting harder these days. I am not getting good ideas for mnemonics. I recall it was easier to make mnemonics before. It could be that the Voca Training gives synonyms so I have to often memorize two Korean words for an English word and this is quite hard. Sometimes I have to learn THREE Korean words for the one English word. The good thing about the Magic book was that there was only one word to learn for each English word.
I would like to start learning advanced Korean words especially the ones you find in news articles. I think it's much more interesting to learn words when they are in context such as in a news article.
Learning without context as in the Voca Training book is really boring. I can't wait till I finish this book. I hate the revision exercises in this book as I have mentioned before, and now I skip them.
I will have to keep making mnemonics. Mnemonics and repetition (seeing the word elsewhere) are helpful memory aids.
I have to be creative.
