It's heartening to think how much can be achieved in such a short time. The shadowing is just wonderful. I don't come across that many words I don't know while doing the shadowing and if I DO come across any, I just use mnemonics to remember them. Without mnemonics, I don't have a hope remembering those words.
It's progressing well. I just have to remember to learn 60 new sentences a day. That's 60x30=1800 in a month! That's a lot. In a month, I will have progressed a lot. 3 months that's 5400 sentences. In six months, that's 10,000 sentences. I will have run out of sentences to shadow! I hope I can read well by then.
I have to study the Business Essentials book. I will do that.
So the books I have to study and shadow are:
# Essentials Everyday
# Grammar in Use
# Essentials Business
# Migrant phrase book
# Korean at a Glance
# International Learners
# Korean in Use.
I wish there was a book or series that had about 10,000 phrases to shadow. Each phrase had the English translation (the colloquial one), the TL romanization (if needed) and the literal English translation (word for word). And the mp3. Then I wouldn't have to study other materials or buy any other materials really, except for some grammar books and a dictionary. This sort of book would make you fluent in the language.
If you wanted to learn reading, you would then study some books and newspapers. You would have a good foundation though already. Studying reading would be easy, I think, after you achieve fluency. You would have a feel for grammar.
If you studied full time, it would take you 2 months to become fluent in the language (14 hours a day learning about 200 words a day).
If you studied part time, say 50 sentences a day, it would take you 6 months to become fluent. So just by shadowing the 50 sentences a day from the book you would become fluent.
For the Korean book, I would add Korean phrases, idioms, sayings and terms like "princess disease". But this would be clearly set out that these words are special for Korea. Most of the book would have an emphasis on English to Korean translation.
There would be sentences to learn, dialogs and stuff like that. Mainly sentences, but some dialogs.
They would cover all the usual situations that phrase books cover but then they would also cover a lot of other situations.
You could a language in six months. In two years, you could learn four languages. You wouldn't really have to do much memorization. You would just use mnemonics to remember the words.
So continue with the chunk idea that you have. Think of scenarios and dialogs and so on. Don't worry about the Korean or the TL yet. Just build up the chunks.
There would be visual material as well. Some interesting pictures and drawings and photos. There would be about three volumes for the person to go through. The whole course should cost $700. That's under-priced I think. In reality, the price would be $2,000 as it saves the person the price of attending language institutes.
If I got a thousand people buying the book, I would make $700,000! If I sold it for $2,000, I would make $2,000,000. But about one-tenth would go toward printing costs and advertising costs, I think and paying people to do the readings and translations. There would have to be lots and lots of CDs for each book. There would have to be a lot of chapters and so on. I think about 300 chapters. Each chapter consists of a scenario. If each chapter has about ten sentences to learn, then each book would have 3,000 sentences to shadow. I would need three volumes (10,000 sentences).
I can also make a separate grammar book for Korean. I am getting better at reading I think. Anyway don't worry about grammar for the time being. Just concentrate on other things.
Build up your knowledge of phrases and vocabulary.
It's doable. Just hiring the people to do the translations will be tricky though.
After the chunks are made, and the scenarios drawn up, the illustrations done, then it's all systems go.
Just get the translations done, the recordings made and the person can load the recordings onto their computer and away they go.
They will need to buy the book though. I won't bother making repeats of the same reading, the person can do that themselves using iTunes. I will tell them how to do it. I will recommend that they listen a minimum of twenty times.
I think this will be a big money earner. I think I will have cracked how people can become polyglots.
Really, six months is plenty of time for people to become fluent in a language. The method is easy to use. All you have to do is repeat like a parrot.
So the emphasis on English to TL will reap gold. It really works for me. Going from TL to English does not work for me at all.
