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it is so fun having two angles right now
i have two cameras going
anyway
are my windows too bright a little
bright isn't it give me a second oh this
is my outfit
now we're ready to roll hello my friends
it's nina and we are back with a
studying video but as you saw by the
title of this video i am going to be
studying some korean and that is because
i'm going to korea again
oh my god i'm so excited so i actually
have mentioned this in a past video in
my notion setup video i showed my notion
and my schedule and on my calendar in
june it did say that i'm going to korea
now i'm properly saying it in a video i
am going to korea in two weeks i have
not begun packing i should probably get
on that but it's been three years since
i've gone last i went in october of 2019
but i'm going again i'm going to seoul
i'm probably going to busan and maybe
some other cities so as you may or may
not know i am a korean american i'm
ethnically korean my entire family is
from korea but i was born in the u.s and
i lived in america my entire life and i
also happen to be one of those korean
americans who can't speak korean
fluently there are korean americans who
can speak fluently or well i just wasn't
like that but for the last five years i
have been studying korean on and off
lately not as much because i just don't
have as much time but since i am going
to korea soon i thought that i should
take some proper time to study right now
i would say i'm
am i conversational
kind of conversational like a beginner
conversation if i had a conversation
with a korean child i would maybe
struggle but
i can have very simple conversations at
this point and then if i have enough
time to think maybe i can properly speak
or write i would say i'm like beginner
intermediate i have not taken the proper
time to study so that's what we're going
to do today so let's just get started i
think the last time that i sat down and
studied was a year ago and it was my
last study video um anyway we're back
and i am going to study so the game plan
for today is i am going to literally
just study common phrases at this point
i have studied enough grammar that i
should focus on how to speak in everyday
situations i tend to avoid studying
vocabulary just because it's a lot of
memorization but at the same time i'm
still very limited with my vocabulary i
have a very basic vocabulary for korean
i speak konglish a lot which means
korean and english and that's because i
won't know the korean word for a certain
noun a certain verb and so i'm still
speaking basically half korean half
english and that's not very great so i
want to properly study some common
phrases so i can get around maybe some
vocabulary words i especially want to
study transportation vocabulary because
i am traveling i want to know how to get
around things like that we'll see what
else i want to study but for this
episode of not really studying with nina
i want to focus on vocab and common
phrases sometimes we just gotta go
simple so a great tip if you're learning
any language and you don't know where to
start start with phrases you want to say
to other people such as ordering at a
restaurant asking for directions or just
asking any simple question and think of
vocabulary that you want to know these
are all very simple things but simple
things that i avoid because it requires
a lot of memorization and memorizing is
hard sometimes so i kind of want to
focus on ordering at restaurants i feel
like that is one of my biggest
challenges i'm literally writing
ordering in korean i can order very
simple things i even have when i was in
vegas and i went to a korean sort of
food court area i ordered sundubu and i
ordered in korean i had literally a
conversation in korean with the person
who worked there and i felt great but
most of the time i tend to back out or
chicken out i tend to just order in
english or even i'll make my friend
order for me just because i will let my
nerves get to me so i want to be a
little more confident with ordering and
then something that i really need to do
before i go to korea is practice korean
i have to get my muscle memory going
again i do still speak korean with my
parents sometimes but i haven't been
practicing as much so
need to practice i think for now i'm
going to look up some vocab i am also
going to practice my korean handwriting
because it's been a while i've been very
digital these days so i haven't been
writing physically in a while
ah there it is okay today i learned
kyoto
which is transportation card so i think
i'm going to do vocab first
transportation okay
wow i have not written in korean in a
very long time yakkan pupio najiman
yonsei
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there's some senses okay so basically i
just searched up transportation
vocabulary in korean and then i went on
a website this is
learnkorean24.com and i am copying down
the vocabulary i'm also going to write
down some sentences so i can memorize it
let's do this
station
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is get off work
it's not like i'm even going to ask
anyone that but
okay
oh my god something that i've noticed or
at least with me when i pronounce
english or korean i kind of have to
change where in my body i'm speaking so
for english i kind of speak like here
here bearish like down here
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i can feel my voice up here but then
with english like i'm down here like you
know
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how do i get to how do i get to gangnam
station
also before you translate it try to
translate it yourself and then see if
you get it right just to make yourself
practice how do i go to gangnam station
please can i get it remotely right
now
it's easier thing is so i'll go with
that time to hydrate water break
i think i took too much in my mouth
that's what she's
stay hydrated i always have the dilemma
the inner dilemma of deciding whether
i'm going to speak to someone in english
or korean but it's like i could just say
the thing in english but i also want to
try to practice staying in korean but
then sometimes i might screw it up and
then we end up speaking in english
anyway so i'm trying to get better the
reason why i can't speak fluently or
couldn't speak fluently not that i can
still but at least now i can speak a
little bit but back then i couldn't
speak any korean whatsoever i understood
a bit but i always answered in english
it's because when i grew up my dad was
speaking mostly in english but korean
sometimes to my mom and then my mom was
speaking in mostly korean and sometimes
english and me growing up in california
and going to an english-speaking school
i just learned english and would answer
my family in english even though i heard
korean i wouldn't speak it back and so i
didn't really make myself practice i
also didn't go to korean school or
really participate much in korean
communities well i kind of did but then
i kind of stopped but basically i didn't
give myself enough time to practice or
learn i had korean tutors back then but
it was still difficult especially as i
was getting older it was harder to learn
it so i did kind of miss out on that but
since 2017 i've been trying to study it
better so i can speak it and even though
i still have a long way to go i can
speak a little bit more to a point where
i can have like basic conversations with
someone so that's good enough you could
only get better from here not blaming my
parents for me not being able to speak
it but and the funny thing is my dad is
fluent in korean now but 20 something
years ago he wasn't the most fluent or
the most confident and so i would always
speak english with him and then even
today i still speak in english with him
sometimes i throw in some korean but
it's just more comfortable just speaking
english luckily my mom she speaks mostly
korean so it's easy to speak with her
and my grandma also naturally speaks
korean so i try to speak korean with her
as well so that's kind of how i grew up
i've told this story many times but just
in case there are new people that's my
case i didn't really speak korean at
home basically and so i developed a
little slower with korean
also another thing with me is i
want to pronounce things well and so
sometimes i'll chicken out of just
speaking because i don't want to sound
like i can't speak it it's just like an
insecurity and so sometimes i'll be like
i might as well just not speak at all
and i'll just not speak it but by doing
that i kind of prevent myself from
practicing so something that my mom told
me is to just speak as you can even if
it means your accent's not going to be
perfect you know some people might find
that cute
so even if you don't sound perfect it's
better than holding yourself back and
being too shy to speak it so i'm trying
to basically have more confidence in
speaking even if i don't sound perfect
even if i'm saying not the right thing
it's good to practice
i still sometimes have a tendency to
mispronounce some things one thing that
i always mispronounce is
kochu
i still can't pronounce it correctly
because i'll be speaking english and
then suddenly transitioning into a
korean word sometimes i don't pronounce
gochujang correctly and i'll say
gochujang
and gochu is not an appropriate word so
is very similar to an english g so
that's why natural i was like
instead of cool
so really try to practice sounds
especially for languages that are very
much about sound and intonation things
like that it'll be very important to
pronounce things a certain way or else
it could be misheard as something else
so definitely practice get your muscle
memory going uh the translating website
that i use is papago by the way
gochujang
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i learned this just now
no i didn't yeah i did not learn that
oh my god i'm guessing that's a traffic
light okay now i learned a new word
my mouth
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um
where did i go wrong
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imagine being fluent
must be nice
wow my handwriting has gotten a little
messy
that
intersection oh i don't even know how to
say intersection well i'm learning so
many new words today
when i went to korea three years ago i
found myself speaking a lot with taxi
drivers since i took the taxi a lot so i
remember that i struggled a bit with
asking for directions or communicating
with them although sometimes i did have
full-on conversations with them but i
did remember that i struggled with that
so directly just think of situations
that you want to be able to speak in and
just think of all the scenarios and what
you can say how you should say it and
that should guide you as you study
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i didn't even know how to say driver
that's another thing i struggle with i
don't know how to say the cashier waiter
driver those are some words that i need
to know
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i didn't even know how to say airport i
know piangi airplane
a
okay i'm guessing that's just oh that
stop
four stops
i hope no one asks me for directions
i already know that and then
i'm so tempted to say shooping mall
now
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crosswalk
there are so many words
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so i reached the end of this website and
today i focus mostly on travel and
asking questions in korean but i think
that is going to be it for this video i
actually do have to go out and do some
shopping to prepare to pack and get
ready for korea which is why i'm all
dressed up anyway but that is going to
be it for today's study session thank
you for joining me oh yes i am excited
to go back it's been almost three years
since the last time i went to korea
which was also the first time this is my
second time i'm very excited i'm
definitely going to make a lot of
content when i get there it'll just be a
fun time i know a lot of my friends are
also going to korea at the same time so
hopefully i get to see them as well if
you're going to korea let me know let's
hang out
let's hang out a lot more content
related to my korea trip will be coming
up and i hope you're ready i have to get
ready now but that is going to be it for
this video thank you so much for hanging
out with me and i will see you in the
next one let's bring it in for a hug you
guys are kind of far away i'm gonna
actually bring you closer okay let's
bring it in for a hug thank you for
watching and i'll see you next time bye