How I Study

Seems I forgot in my first post that part of the point of this blog is to record how I'm studying and note changes over time. So it would be a good idea to record what that looks like now before the first update.

Anki:

• Currently, I spend about 40-50 minutes per day reviewing in Anki. This is usually split up between a few sessions: in the morning after exercising, on the train to work, and on the train coming back home.
• To reiterate: I am doing 15 new cards per day from Evita's grammar deck, and 10 of my own cards per day, for a total of 25. I plan on staying around 20-25 of my own cards when Evita's deck is completed.
• I have also paused my 漢字 deck for now as I revisit studying them with Remembering the Traditional Hanzi.
• More time is spent in Anki just creating cards, which is explained below under "Active immersion for sentence mining".

Passive immersion: I typically listen to Korean 24/7 news the whole day at work, except when in meetings (probably about 45-90 min per day in meetings). At home, I continue to listen, but not as constantly as at work.

Active immersion for sentence mining: I watch K-dramas with Korean subtitles on. I watch, not pausing or looking anything up, until I find an i+1 sentence (by now, this happens very often). Pause, look up the unknown word, and make a card¹. Do this until I have 10 cards and then I'm done with this kind of immersion for the day.

General active immersion: I watch maybe 30-60 minutes of K-dramas, or a full Korean movie, with subtitles off for listening practice. This is a new part of the process as of a few days before writing this.