All I have to do is listen carefully. Just forget the other methods of study, especially the online methods. They are for more advanced students and those ways of studying are very disorganized methods of studying.
The way you are studying is very good. You have the Korean, the romanization, the colloquial English translation and the literal English translation. You have the audio too.
I found that my grammar is really improving when I do just listening. I really need those audios but I will cross that bridge when I come to it. Don't try and take on too much. Just do a lot of listening and repeating without looking at the Hangeul.
I wish there was a book like that, that had 10,000 phrases and there was the Korean, the romanization, the English translations - both literal and colloquial. That would be great.
That would get me fluent, well sort of semi-fluent.
And then after that, I would concentrate on reading and writing. Can't spend ALL my time on speaking. After I reach the intermediate stage of speaking, it's time to learn speaking from mixing with Koreans and speaking 100% in Korean. i could attend a hagwon at that stage. And then simultaneously, I could work on my reading. I think I am getting better at reading. Got to work on the grammar book to get better at reading. That's the key to reading - reading the grammar book and reading newspapers. Translating articles and so forth. The speaking is less important to me, I think. It impresses people but I am not really improving my reading skills by that much except in the area of grammar and a little bit of vocabulary. Apparently, I need to read lots. Once again, I don't like online sources for my reading.
Some people learn a language using the piecemeal fashion like Talk to Me in Korean and LingQ but I definitely DON'T. So forget about those sites for the time being. You can look at them when you've reached a certain level of proficiency.
