I haven't posted here in over a month, so here's a quick check-in of changes over that timeframe.

(Attempting) monolingual

Recently I decided to go as monolingual as possible. For the uninitiated, monolingual learning is when you begin to learn words by reading their definition in your Target Language. In your SRS, you just test yourself on understanding the sentence and definition rather than relying on a translation (the back of the card would be just the definition, no translation). When you're learning bilingually, as you often do in the beginning of learning a foreign language, you learn by reading the translation of the word in your native language.

For example: the word 본격적 in a bilingual dictionary and in a monolingual dictionary.

I wanted to go cold-turkey, but I also really want to hit a consistent 10 cards per day (third section expands on this), and was struggling to do that going full monolingual.

If I find an i+1 sentence in immersion, I look up the word in a monolingual dictionary first. Then:

• If there's only one or two words I don't know in the definition, I'll go check those ones out, and potentially "go down the rabbit hole" of definitions to find one I can understand. If the hole goes too deep, I'll give in and learn a word bilingually. I wait to make cards for a "parent" word/definition until I have the "child" word/definitions down well.
• If I don't come close enough to understanding the definition, but it seems like a common word that would be good to learn, I'll just learn it bilingually.

Reading

I'm adding more and more reading to my daily regimen. I started with 외국인을 위한 한국어 읽기 (basically graded reading for Korean learners) and also have started to read quite a bit of Korean Wikipedia (always loved reading random shit on Wikipedia).

Cards per day resolution

In my last post I mentioned being unsure about how many cards to do per day. I've decided to set a goal of minimum of 10 cards per day, with a limit of 20 for a single day. I expect like 90+% of days will only be 10 cards, and even days when I break that minimum, it will probably rarely exceed like 15. 20 is just the hard limit I have my deck set to in Anki.

I do love Anki, but I don't want to spend a ton of free time in it, when that could be used to actively immerse with reading and TV.

Evita

Also as a minor update, I finally finished Evita's grammar deck a little over a week ago. Overall, happy with the experience and grateful for the bootstrap it gave me. Only regret is ever wasting reps on the vocab deck, when I could have just spammed 20 cards per day of the grammar deck and been done in just about 4 months (took about 5 ¾ months for me).