Hey guys, this is Lindie. Today's vid is about learning Korean grammar
Firstly, I'm using this really old book I have
I got it in 2014 lol
LOL I've been using it foreverrr. And my Korean level has STAYED THE SAME help
They don't make this exact book anymore but there's a new version of it if you just search for the title 빈도별 토픽
while preparing for the TOPIK exam
I looked at all the grammar there was
and cried.
Jk let't not cry and let's make a study plan!
So as usual when I make these videos I'm just gonna continue in English
because it's more accessible to a wider audience
and less for me to translate in the subtitles... so let's begin
I started by looking at the list of grammar that was in the beginning of
this book and what we did is I wrote down every single grammar structure from
the chapters as such the point of doing this was for me to have a single place
where I can come back to and mark which grammars I've done and I have
categorized them into grammar that is new to me
grammar that I know and grammar that I should review so I just used any simple
color coding system the yellow ones are ones I know so these are ones that I
don't even need to look through so sometimes when people work through a new
book they start from the beginning and they go through all the boring stuff
they already know and they feel bored and they just leave don't do that if you
know the stuff just skip it don't waste your time
okay so pink is stuff I need to review so these are grammar structures I
already know and sometimes hear and use but I might be wrong and I just want to
touch up before the exam and then blue over here you'll see there's a few blue
ones those are grammar structures which are completely new to me
I've no idea what they mean and I've never heard them and help so after I
marked them I also put a dot on the side I love using dots to fill up the ones
that I've done before and ones that I mean the ones I've completed and ones
that are not studied yet I counted all the grammar structures so I have 22
completely unknown grammar structures 34 that need review and 54 that I already
know from this book so that means I'm knowing grammar and once that need
review make a total of 56 grammar points which I need to study and I want to
study for five weeks and have two weeks for review so five weeks of study is 35
days I decided I can study two grammar structures a day one in the morning and
one in the evening or both in the morning and then review in the evening
and 56 structures divided by two a day means 28 days so I made a 28 day
schedule to stick to to study grammar in order not to overwhelm myself I made
sure to do one blue meaning one very at fast and one pink meaning one review
structure every day so I just write blue and pink here I don't write the name of
the grammar structure because it wastes my time and then I just say if I've
completed it and a rough estimate of how long it took me as well as do I review
the previous day's grammar and you'll see at the end I kind of run out of blue
ones because I there aren't that many and then I
go through the pink ones I need to review
now some things to keep in mind when studying grammar number one don't get
overwhelmed by how much there is to learn
just do what I did and break it up into little parts a day and don't just go
through your textbook trying to finish as much as you can in a day because it's
not going to go into your long-term memory after you have studied your
grammar structures the next day when you wake up just be sure to go through what
you've done the previous day I find that my short-term memory is absolutely
terrible and I at least have to go through my notes about two or three
times from the previous day so all I do is I read through the example sentences
and put little stars at specific parts of the grammar that are new or like a
different way that you can use the grammar that I didn't think about before
so things that I might not catch at first glance I'll be sure to mark that
there and that's what I go through when I am reviewing and finally my last point
of advice is to be sure to use these grammar structures as much as you can so
long as you are using this grammar structure whether you're talking to a
language partner writing a diary talking to yourself even if you are using it the
more you use it the more you will start to solidify it in your memory also don't
be afraid to read out loud if you have that luxury so I would just sit and go
over my notes and be sure I am reading sentences over and over so positive on
either hand and oh man and ooh and ahh and this grammar structure I'm learning
is hand dominant oh so it's kind of a weird structure that I've never heard
before and it means opening doors me at the ancona Otero has done a lot so when
you're not like putting your all in for an action or not doing something
properly that is when you use the grammar structure noon doom and so I try
and picture myself in the cetera sentence so this sentence is Papa salt
even Iran and Oman and Ronda which is like because I was busy I really haven't
even had time to clean my house and do like household chores so I pictured that
I am this person and I walk around in like Oh paparazzi man your hand oh man
into any that hand and do mundo hand and then I check it again okay hun and do
mundo hand that I'm just stating it over and over and over so I can hear myself
and that is something that I found very helpful let me tell you how I lay out my
grammar notes color coding is very important to me because I'm a very
visual person but I find that it's totally ok to not follow your rules to
the T so if you feel like something is not working for you it is okay to change
it up as you go along so you'll see on my first two pages I put all the example
sentences in a purple pen and I highlighted it with a red highlighter
with a specific grammar point I just thought this looked really ugly I didn't
like the colors so from the next pages I put all the grammar sentences in blue
and these specific grammar point in purple and you can see that my notes
look a lot cleaner when pop song is basically explanation of grammar I write
in black so this first lock sentence here and then I can't read backwards on
my screen yang 118 and well point to y'all here
well you don't okay I'm reading backwards right now but basically what
it says is the grammar point in the example sentence is like this so I just
show that the sentence is in blue and the grammar point is in purple as you
can see there after that I do the exercises
I don't do every single exercise in my notebook because I already have them in
the book here these are my notes from years ago but I fill in the exercises
here and I've just put a page marker right at the back to check my answers so
only the grammar points that are difficult for me were the ones I get
wrong I will put in here and correct myself with
in some cases the review grammar structures are very easy easier than I
saw it and my page for the day is extremely empty I pretty much just told
myself to be careful of where I put spaces when writing a grammar structure
so I didn't have anything new to learn but I just took a point there and the
rest if they're difficult grammar structures will have a full dedicated
page that's essentially how I create a schedule to stick to and to be sure that
I don't overwhelm myself and don't just kind of blindly go through a book page
by page and worrying about how much there is I've just taken what is inside
the book created a schedule to make sure I do two points a day and that has been
working really well for me and I will finish it before the exam so all should
be well and one more thing thank you always for sending in your questions I
love reading them and I try my best to answer them but I do have an FAQ on my
website so be sure to head to Lindy butas comm slash FAQ I also have a huge
page of Korean resources so Linda Buddha's comm slash Korean - resources
the link is in the description so hopefully that will answer some of your
questions as well so you don't have to wait for my reply also I'm busy working
on an e-book at the moment that will help you learn a language faster with
all of my tips and tricks in one place so do be on the lookout and come check
back and I will let you know when the e-book is done I'm so exciting thank you
so much for watching hope it was useful and see you in the next video bye