I think I will forget about this one. It's a little too old-fashioned. Many of the phrases are not useful. I think I will just go with the Essentials and Migrant books. They are more up-to-date.
I will just completely forget about the Barron's book.
Okay ... I also need to start on Using Korean eventually. I don't like some of the grammar explanations in that book. Just use it for the shadowing of the sentences. It's more up-to-date, with a lot of useful tips about current colloquial speech, so just approach it from that point of view, and don't forget to focus from English to Korean.
I think I will shadow it concurrently with the other books. It's boring shadowing just the one book. I will skip some chapters though.
Some of the chapters are not good for shadowing and are confusing. I might go back to them later though. I will go straight to the chapters which will be useful to me.
So the plan is to do the Everyday Essential Korean book, the Migrant book, the Essential Business book (these three will provide me enough phrasebook type of sentences), and simultaneously shadow the International Learners book, the Using Korean book, and the teenage book.
For fun, I will shadow the WOW comics if I have time ...
So I am going to be REALLY busy for the next three months shadowing. I hope I become fluent after all of this shadowing.
I think I am getting better. Certainly. I pick up more words when people speak in Korean.
And this way of studying is FUN.
I learned the value of this method from watching a Youtube video by a polyglot who specialized in learning Taiwanese dialects. He did shadowing as his main learning activity. He just got phrase books (or books with good phrases) and shadowed them.
I think that's the best way of becoming fluent, just mimicking native speakers. Just absorbing the sentences in Korean as they are and not worrying too much about the grammar, accepting that that's how they express certain meanings.
So it's going great. I feel I am no longer wasting my time. I am just shadowing!
