Hi everyone! My name is Lindie and I've studied Korean for 9 years.
In this video I'd like to show you the notebooks I've used since I started learning.
Enjoy it!
These notebooks include ones I used when I first learnt how to write Korean
And books that I'm still using now
So you can see how my handwriting has changed and what content I've been studying
This is the notebook I used 9 years ago when I first started
I had lessons with a teacher for about a year and a half
So I learnt some basic vocabulary like these
And I learnt how to write Korean
As you can see my handwriting is like an elementary school student's writing
Maybe even worse than a student's writing
There are many mistakes, but
now that I look at my notebook, I can see how much I improved
so I'm proud of myself and I have a lot of motivation to keep studying hard!
I was a high school student then
so if I look at this now I drew pictures that really weren't that funny...
This is about acorn jelly
I spelt the word wrong
It's a story about acorn jelly (dotorimuk)
and its a bit strange..
I don't know why I liked acorn jelly so much back then
I also thought it was really difficult to write hangul
As you can see I spelt the words for "woman" and "father" incorrectly
When I ate Ramyeon, I would stick this in my notebook and learn new words like that
After a few months my writing improved ever so slightly
In this book I practiced my penmanship
I practiced writing Hangul really hard
Whenever I learnt new words,
I would make long lists in my notebook
and I practiced zealously :P
If I look at it now, these are really simple words,
at that time it was quite hard for me
so I really wrote them out a lot
When I was in grade 12, I worked in a Korean restaurant
At that time it was still difficult for me to speak Korean
so I taught myself sentences like "can I clear the plates?"
or stuff like "Please wait a little"
I learnt these sentences to use them in the restaurant
My handwriting is slowly getting a bit better
but its still not that good
Back then there was an account on twitter that taught people basic Korean
So I used to take notes when reading those tweets
So the contents are a bit varied
and strange
but I really wrote in this book every single day!
I was sooooo in love with Korea then
I used this notebook every day
Around then I started using Kakaotalk
and I spoke a lot to a soldier oppa I met on the internet (lol)
Sometimes I didn't understand what he wrote to me
so I would write his phrases in my book and translate them
For example "I'm a soldier now"
I learnt stuff like that talking to him
If you look carefully it says "sometimes you resemble a potato" on this page
I also learnt useless things like that :P
Ok, let's look at the book I used in my first year of university
I started using a bit more difficult textbooks
there were lots of difficult words
but I wanted to learn every single thing written in the textbook
so I wrote a lot!
After that I became a bit bored with using textbooks
so instead I would write out song lyrics
If I'm honest, some of the words in this book are still foreign to me even now.
I think I didn't really study that hard
I just wrote a lot and never came back to it
I just forgot it lol
Strangely enough my handwriting seems to change on each page
usually I'm like that!
I also started to learn basic Hanja (Chinese characters)
this was about four years ago
my handwriting is a joke
and I can speak/write a bit of Chinese now
so my Hanja has improved a lot since
These day's Im using this book
a few years ago when I went to Busan, a friend bought me this book
Junseok, if you're watching this, thanks!!
I really think grammar is so interesting
I learn lots of grammar structures through this book
I've become very interested in minimalism recently
and I'm reading the book called Living Simply
instead of using a textbook, each time there are words I don't know in this book, I look them up
I write in the book and look them up in a dictionary asap
Before I finish, let's compare my writing
On the left I wrote like that when I first learnt Hangul
And on the write is an example of how I write in Korean every day
And you can clearly see how different my writing has become
I'm interested in knowing how you all study languages
so please send me some photos of your notebooks on Twitter @lindiebee or Instagram @lindiebotes
I'd love to see so please let me know!
Thanks so much for watching until here
have a good day! :3
Bye!