It's been a long time since my last post here, mostly because my process has been mostly stable for a while now. But the new year feels like a good time to make an update.

I have made a few decisions to up the pace for my Korean journey. I don't like to think of them as new year's resolutions, but they did happen to line up right around the same time. I actually started them about a week ago.

For one, I've committed myself to 20 new sentence cards per day, until I feel like I'm relatively fluent. I previously thought this wouldn't be reasonable based on the amount of immersion I was getting (see my 2024-03-06 post for more context), but now I think it is reasonable. I think discovering an interest in reading changed that, as I was mostly getting audio immersion back then.

I am also going to commit to more audio immersion, particularly on weekends. As I said above, I was primarily getting audio immersion in the past, but when I started reading, reading ended up replacing a lot of my listening time, so my listening is nowhere near where I want it to be. As a challenge to help fix this, I'll be attempting to watch all of my Korean dub of Evangelion every weekend, until I completely or almost completely understand it. The series is just short of 10 hours total, so it can easily be split up between ~3.3 hour sessions on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Of course, I'll also see where I can make more time during weekdays to get more listening (probably with regular kdramas rather than some headass anime dub), but since weekdays are busier with work, I will prioritize reading over listening to ensure I can mine 20 sentences per day.

Lastly, as for reading, I have no particular commitments for this, at least not for now. At my current level and the level of books I'm reading, mining 20 sentences per day seems to naturally require a good amount of reading to find that many sentences.