How I learned fluent Korean ✨ 한국어 공부한 계기와 방법

[@jssmedialangs]

Wow!! Congrats on 10 years! I just celebrated 6 years in Japanese and it feels like no time passed at all... But I think it's also cool to see how we change with the language we're learning. 😊 It's been an adventure for sure and you always inspire me. Congrats again!

[@alphabravo0]

TOPIK Level 5 is C1 (advanced) level. Congratulations on such achievement! I came to Canada with English at B2 (upper-intermediate) level and was able to reach C1 after two years of living in Canada.

[@parkmarisol6902]

진짜 린디님 한국어 발음은 최고예요. 넘넘 자연스럽게 또래 청년들처럼 편하게 얘기하세요. 언어에 탁월한 은사 있으세요❤

[@Jayy4351]

This video brings back memories. I remember you talking about your introduction to Korean in an old video.

[@peterhopps3101]

0:49 "그 머지" 언어습관마저 네이티브랑 완전 똑같아요 소름!!! 저도 영어공부중인데 린디씨처럼 외국어를 완벽하게 하고싶어요. 얼마나 공부를 많이 했을까 대단하기도 하고, 부럽습니다ㅎㅎ

[@laeti6661]

Amazing Korean study journey ! I admire you for your dedication and your love for Korean language. Personally, I have started learning Korean for the very first time in 2015, and I am at an intermediate level, got TOPIK 3 a year ago.. I love the language itself, how it sounds etc but I struggle so much in my learning that it’s not enjoyable to learn. I am so tired of learning tons and tons of vocabulary stupidly, and to me the logic Korean grammar is hard to understand.

[@kakaungranduomo2666]

Exactly. Hangeul is pretty easy writing system, but Korean is very difficult language for people who don’t understand their culture and emotions. Except for Japanese and Mongolians in the same East Asia, most foreigners feel gap in the difficulty between Hangeul and Korean. This also occurs mainly in foreigners learning Japanese.

[@SteppingStonevlogs]

Great to hear an achievable story...one that took time, breaks, and a few twists and turns. A lot of people on YT are like "Oh I learnt it in 3 easy steps" or "I learnt it in 2 years" and it's not that helpful.

[@ydalir]

Wow, I feel like the last time you uploaded a Korean focused video, I couldn't understand a lick of the Korean in it, but this time I could understand everything in the intro! 🤩🤩 That first passion language will always have a special place in the heart of a polyglot I think~

[@lunaaabug]

im so proud of you!

[@garytube1000]

You are just amazing and fluent in speaking Korean, and your personality comes out when speaking it!

[@ChrisBadges]

What I find especially interesting in your story is that you did not have the usual KPOP/KDrama fan motivation. This makes it easier for a wider circle of people like me to identify with you. By the way, your methods are worth gold for any language learner, whatever the language.

[@LindieBotes]

Thank you so much!!

[@nickludwig5]

I have actually given up on Korean after a few months of assimil and learning a lot but you know what, I think you have convinced me to get back to it! Thanks Lindie, you're always an inspiration!

[@cheesejkliop]

Try again! Talk to me in korean, how to study korean, korean grammar in use, naver dictionary, and italki are all wonderful

[@conkodo]

I’ve seen this video before but I am here to re-watch it because I want to memorize your technique because you’ve been so successful

[@estherandherlittleworld7821]

Korean is a language that i was so excited to start but then i have stopped and restarted it at least 3 or 4 times within a year, i really wanna come back to this language again... the logic of the language is confusing to me. Thank you so much for your inspiring journey Lindie :)

[@cringesh1t427]

I feel like a lot of the understanding comes with learning how they live and see things. Maybe I’m wrong but it seems as though many words are very heavily based on context and emotion

[@chillingteatalk]

10년 ㅎㄷㄷ 진짜 대단해요 한국어 정말 잘하시네요! I hope my students get this passion and enthusiasm

[@PumpkinMozie]

I also started Korean around the same time you did and it’s soooo true that the resources were limited! Kids these days are so lucky haha

[@회사원-u9h]

개인적으로 발음보다 억양이 중요하다고 생각하는데 발음도 좋지만 억양이 굉장히 훌륭하네요.

[@egarza]

I've been learning Chinese for 2 and a half years and your videos are the best ones to not feel pressured while learning and with really good advice. Korean and Chinese are really hard and 10 years may seem like a lot but it's really not if you want to be fluent. Thank you for your work.

[@choosenottodecide]

What a lovely video ❤ When I first started learning Korean I came across your channel and couldn’t understand a word, now a couple of years later I can understand most things you say in Korean, I was so excited! God bless you and thank you for another lovely video. This passage came on my app and feels apt to share: Do not conform to the pattern of the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind Romans 12:2 ♥️

[@mirae9163]

That's amazing! :)

[@sheeliekittie9298]

I hope this can be me too!! I started learning Korean and it's just spoken too fast :*( I hope I can make progress.

[@HSA954]

아멘

[@awesomer8760]

아니, 진짜 정말 잘 해요! 언어 자체에 재능이 있는 분같아요. 진심 놀라워요! 최고최고:)

[@Bruce_Park]

와 그냥 감탄만 나온다. 천재라는 게 이런 거구나 싶다.

[@marcello7781]

I've been following your method for Thai. Thanks for giving me a lot of motivation in learning Asian languages, Lindie! p.s.: You look great with that hanbok in the thumbnail!

[@Nini77745]

한국어 정말 잘 하시네요!! 그리고 잘 하시게 되기까지 열심히 노력하신 게 감동이네요 ㅠㅠ 잘 보고 갑니다!

[@rinihc9637]

Hey, I started learning in Sep 2022. Hasn't been that long for me but I am trying my best to be consistent, something I really struggle with. Somedays I don't feel like studying at all and I don't even cover anything. I target to study for 2 hours everyday but somedays I can't even do that. I feel listening works way better for me too than reading, reading makes me sleepy, even tutorials. I am a slow learner, always have been, so it breaks my heart to think I have spent so many months already and still struggling to make some basic sentences and how weak my vocabulary still is. I hope to be fluent someday, I really want to. Might take longer for me compared to others, but I don't feel like giving up :) Even I didn't start Korean because of Kpop or Kdramas, I just fell in love with the language and I always wanted to learn a foreign language and I gave up on French and Spanish pretty quickly, and among the Asian languages, Korean seemed the most interesting to me. Hopefully, by the end of this year, I make some progress :)

[@mselcseventing]

That’s when I first started learning languages! Trying to get back into learning as I’ve taken a 9 month break

[@Alicia-zf3nq]

I currently have no interest in learning Korean, but this was still very useful for just learning about general language learning strategies! So thank you for sharing your journey. One thing I will start doing is keeping a notebook and just writing in it bilingually/trilingually where I substitute words I don't know in Greek for words I do know in another language. I tend to avoid writing about topics I'm not completely familiar with in Greek out of fear that i won't know a word and get stuck, but by avoiding it I will never learn the words I'm missing. So just writing in Greek with what I already know and filling in the gaps with words in English or Dutch might be a very effective way for me to get an insight into what words and expressions I still need to focus on. I will also try shadowing the podcasts I listen to. At the moment my only practice for pronunciation is to use the speech-to-text on my phone's keyboard and it is a disaster more often than a success. Mimicking the podcast and comparing my pronunciation to it will likely improve my skills a bit. Finally, taking notes of words in texts I'm reading is a very obvious one that I hadn't thought about when it comes to reading books. I'm trying to read kids books in a language I took in high school but don't know much vocabulary of anymore and keeping a notebook where I note the words I frequently don't know might help me learn them very quickly. Then I'll probably be able to pick up the language through immersion again quite quickly.

[@ChrisBadges]

Καλή επιτυχία 😊

[@b3.14]

you are really my inspiration on my korean learning journey, thank you so much for sharing your experiences and for making your channel a safe and comfortable one for those who maybe feel sometime stuck!!!!

[@purplerain1890]

hi lindie! i've been watching your videos to feel motivated in studying language as im currently learning korean for almost 3 years and japanese for 8 months sometimes i feel stuck and im not reaching my goal or i feel that im not improving at all. thank you for all your tips in studying. Congrats on 10 years :)

[@jaysontadeo2644]

Thank you for sharing your experience and tips in learning Korean 😊 I am motivated again ❤

[@missmusic0922]

You are an inspiration to all South African people learning Korean. 🎉❤

[@winniemaereact1391]

Thank you for this video!!! Definitely saving this to help for my Korean journey!

[@LindieBotes]

I wish you the best!

[@김정민-b6c1o]

Her accent is so remarable. Sounds like a 99.9% native speaker.

[@jeremyconnor8625]

Congrats on 10 years! I just started learning Korean a few months ago, I hope I am as successful as you some day!

[@honeydew5883]

Your hair looks really nice 💕💕

[@ainagarden]

예전에는 특히나 영어에 비해 한국어 자료가 부족했을 텐데도 열정이 대단하셨던 것 같아요! 요즘 시대에는 넷플릭스 같은 ott서비스, 유튜브, chat gpt 등이 활발해진 덕에 외국어 배우는데 필요한 인풋자료를 구하기 한결 수월해진 것 같습니다! 그럼에도 불구하고 외국어 배우는 것이 결코 쉽지는 않은 것 같아요. 그 노력 리스펙 합니다!

[@AlexCruceruPhotography]

Thank you very much for sharing your view and giving some advice and new links.

[@lizi3154]

You have a huge language talent!!! May the Lord bless you!

[@Patrick_125]

Thanks for sharing! This is my first time watching a video of yours and it's really helpful. I especially like the strategies of keeping a journal in Korean and shadowing. Will definitely be trying those out!

[@2users828]

I want to learn Korean because I loved (past-tense lol) their Korean dramas and currently love a couple of reality shows. I used to be a Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese dramas addict.. but now I only watch a handful of Korean reality/docu shows which I think are good... I have also found someone I love in Korea so I am learning to pick it up again... and it's my massive inspiration apart from my ideal life in Korea! Let's see what God has in store for all of us!

[@leicalove9384]

Damn, I found you via afrikaans and saw that you learned korean. You can be very proud of yourself ❤

[@l8terivy]

this is very inspiring. thank you!

[@sohobay11]

어쩌다 이채널에 들어왔는데 ㅋㅋ 한국어 수준에 놀랐습니다. 앞으로 하는일 다 잘되시길~^^

[@sowhat8238]

It's been quite a journey, you did really well!

[@lisab1854]

안녕하세요 Lindie! 👋 I started learning Korean about a year ago. I'm a Stray Kids fan! I picked up a lot of words from their live videos and then from kdrama - a lot of the same words are repeated and they have become familiar. I'm not learning consistently so my progress is slow. I still struggle with sentences... (Like you, I say a Korean word and then fill the gap with English 😂) I figure if I learn lots of words / vocab, I will eventually be able to put them together 🤔🤷‍♀️

[@patrickmcevoy3257]

Congratulations on 10 years of learning Korean that is a hard language to learn I just started learning Japanese from books. Learning a language is very hard but I keep at it good 👍 luck with your channel

[@kimincoree]

So great to hear a summary of your language journey! I started learning korean 4 years ago and I am at topik level 4 :) I also started quite rencently a channel to document my travels in korea and Korean learning journey and you were one of the persons who inspired me to start!!! I So thank you and keep on sharing your polyglot's life with us :D

[@sheeliekittie9298]

So inspiring to hear yours and others success stories with learning korean!! I speak Japanese and Mandarin but for some reason Korean seems the hardest language. It's spoken very fast and so many honorific levels...how do you recommend I start, and should I try to create an immersion environment even though I am not surrounded by Korean native speakers?

[@kimincoree]

@@sheeliekittie9298 Yeah I recently started to listen to korean podcasts and watch shows without the english subs, which I wish I had started earlier. I don't understand everything but I can still follow better than I initially thought. If you are a beginner I'd recommend watching a show that you already watched and undertand a second time without english subs this time

[@sheeliekittie9298]

@kimincoree great ideas! I'm still unsure about overall the process of language learning. Should we focus on one language at a time? And reach confidence with this before we learn a new one?

[@kimincoree]

@@sheeliekittie9298 I reckon yeah

[@ItsMikeLearns]

this is so cool! truly motivation for me. thank you

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

I hope I can learn Korean. I really love this language 😊😊😊

[@sheeliekittie9298]

Me too I'm the same, it's a lovely language! I hope I can learn but it seems very difficult 😕

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

@@sheeliekittie9298 True, I hope we can do that. Good luck in this process. I believe in you ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@LindieBotes]

You can do it!

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

@@LindieBotes ❤❤😍😍

[@sheeliekittie9298]

@@LindieBotes aw your the best

[@nicoleyoshihara4011]

Love to see your journey!^_^

[@amyk4027]

Great ideas! Thank you!

[@schrodingerscat3912]

Congrats! I'm in Japan. I honestly have never had conversations in a foreign language until I got here. It's a really mind blowing experience for me. People ask my how long I've been living here, and I'm just a tourist lol 信じられる程

[@chanmall7906]

If you don't mind, please post a video about studying Afrikaans and maybe introduce some resources if you know any. I love your channel and I always learn from you ❤️❤️

[@LindieBotes]

You can check out my other channel called Afrikaans with Lindie!

[@Josh-cm8vi]

Hi Ms.Lindie! Your new subscriber from Philippines

[@lightcalm68]

린디양은 정말이지 세계에 몇 안되는 언어 천재 중 한명 같아요.

[@お節介じい]

I have learnt Korean and Chinese languages at Yanbian University.　KZbin에 우리 학교 소개 동영상이 있습니다.

[@LindieBotes]

그렇군요! 화이팅하세요~

[@wiley-spy]

to study korean level 3 (B1) and native english is efficient .. if any foreign students write english thesis, graduate schools will give diploma. workplace, english is better, all workers know who is foreigner.

[@englishwithchatGPT]

다른 언어를 배우는 건 참 재미있는 일인 것 같아요 같이 힘내 보아요😆

[@lenkamatic]

Lindie, you motivate me to learn languages! I want to learn Korean in the future, so this video is intreresting for me. P.S. How is your Thai going? (sorry for my English, I am learning😂)

[@linwinloveschocolate2219]

Babe, your English is so good! Even your punctuation. Don't apologize, because there's literally no error.

[@ウケンショウ]

A great video 👍

[@ksaber4279]

세상엔 참 대단한 분들이 많네요 ㄷㄷ 구라 않치고 저보다 발음 더 좋으심..

[@jpskorean1012]

Now we have hundreds of channels that give out how to learn Korean nowadays~ thanks to youtube~

[@LindieBotes]

Yeah! It's much better than 10 years ago

[@khftg-i2s]

린디님은 발음이 참 좋으심 ㅎㅎ

[@steven_2005-z4f]

I learned Mandarin Chinese 🇨🇳 in high school. The next languages I would like to learn are Korean 🇰🇷 Japanese 🇯🇵 German 🇩🇪 Russian 🇷🇺 Italian 🇮🇹 French 🇫🇷 Finnish 🇫🇮. And possibly other languages.

[@Choigo3]

너무나 사랑스러운 우리 린디 님~~~ ^_____^

[@mariasophie167]

That was a very interesting journey! 😊 I didn't catch what you said when you talked about the Korean lessons. It was for university students and the background was ...? You were there for the language and they were there for ...?

[@땅꽈리]

한국에 안 오고 한국어 이렇게 잘한다 ????????? 진짜 짝짝짝

[@irenamcg]

Thank you so much for helping us and motivating us to learn Korean 😁 Can you tell us, now that you studied Korean for so long, what resources you think are the best for learning - websites, apps and textbooks? Thank you

[@LindieBotes]

Thank you for watching! In the description is a link to my Korean resources page 🎉

[@sheeliekittie9298]

Thank you so much for your motivating videos always,, Lindie! As an adult language learner, I do feel I learn best with comprehension of the grammar. The difficulty with korean it just seems its spoken so fast. How can i improve and structure my study time to be more efficient? I know the alphabet and just basic phrases. I am going r move in 2 months to Seoul for a new job. I will like to try and learn more, before I go!

[@youto8160]

영어 공부하는 방법도 알려주세요.

[@slimytoad1447]

Hi Lindie what is your opinion on Teach yourself Korean? Is it a good resource or would you choose another course? Many thanks Declan,London

[@LindieBotes]

Hi Declan, I haven't really used it much but from what I know about the other TY language books is that they tend to be old fashioned and quite basic, you might not learn very natural Korean or progress quickly. I would rather recommend resources made in Korea/by Korean companies than western companies.

[@slimytoad1447]

@@LindieBotes thank you very much Lindie for replying so quickly, i will take your advice and seek alternative sources, by the way i've been subscribed to your channel for some time now and you really are my language guru. I love your content,your fluency in languages is very impressive. I hope you and family are well. Take care. Declan

[@hartye]

So interesting, it's awesome to see the journey of someone so passionate. It would be really interesting to see your journey in Japanese language!

[@LindieBotes]

Thanks for watching! 💓💓

[@sherlockday8691]

I want to be fluent in Korean one day. But my memory is really bad😅 I am working on my Korean as much as possible. 한국 진짜 어려와요.

[@LindieBotes]

Youve got this!

[@octoberjim4309]

천재다

[@Drestic]

I also started in 2009 and then stopped for many years but I am trying to learn again. My biggest problem is that I dont have anyone to talk to on a daily basis in person so I end up watching a lot of dramas for exposure but I can't interact.

[@Angelo-or3tt]

Me too.. not a kpop fan but learning korean.. 😅

[@lemon__ade]

한국어 발음이 외국인들에게 불편한 발음이 많아서 어쩔 수 없지만 사용하시는 어휘들은 굉장히 자연스러워요!! 원어민 수준..... 아주~!! 조금 어색한 억양만 제외하고 본다면 사용하는 말 자체는 그냥 한국인 같아요 하지만 발음 자체도 엄청 노력했다는 게 보여요 연음, 비음, 격음 등등 이런 부분에서 외국인들의 어색한 발음들이 차이가 나는데 린디님의 발음은 그런 부분에서 오류가 현저하게 적어요 (연음, 격음이 살짝 아쉬운 정도? 영상의 한 부분을 예로 들면 '그렇게 > 그러케' 라고 발음하는 게 자연스럽습니다) 아무튼 그동안의 노력이 엄청났을 거라는 게 짐작되네요 정말 대단합니다

[@AnaBeatriz-qu2wh]

Hi Lindie! I can't find the website of journally, can you send a link?

[@sunvaj6754]

Good for you! 3rd language will be much easier for you.

[@Daviddaze]

Hello, you mention in the beginning u used ' talk to me in korean'. I will subscribe and i found 'Hailey Korean friend' to be enjoyable.

[@똥구아미]

이분 언어 천재임…거의 초능력 수준…

[@superrrbaek]

겁나 잘 하시는데요..ㅋㅋㅋ 글씨도 나보다 잘쓰셩

[@yorshigol85]

역시 발성이 좋으니 진짜 확 닿네요 거리감이 거의 안 느껴져요

[@dayana4654]

I've been studying korean since 2018 but it was on and off studying... and at times idk how to get back to studying the language... also the reason i started learning korean was my sister promising to go to Korea on my 20th birthday, but so many things have happened in both our lives that i don't think it will be possible (i turn 20 next year) so i sort of lost the reason to study but i still love the language and still want to learn it but i don't have motivation... plz help😢

[@nriab23]

may i apologise for my rant the previous day in the comments of you faith video. it was wrong of me. anyway hope you the best.

[@LindieBotes]

Thank you for apologising!

[@melodywilson]

It's been a year of learning korean, im still a beginner, grammar is a little hard for me.

[@cheesejkliop]

Great, keep at it! Check out Talk to Me in Korean, How to Study Korean, and Korean Grammar in Use and practice practice practice :)

[@muhammadbilal5301]

Great how many language do you speak

[@Liam25025]

Great job well done. I don't study korean but i noticed thay they end a lot of sentences with something that sounds like "mi - da" What's that about?

[@cheesejkliop]

Word order is different in Korean. Korean also uses particles and endings. Verbs end sentences. Ni da is a respectful ending. Therefore, you'll hear most sentences end in yo or ni da, except among children or close friends.

[@pietersmal5903]

Dankie. Ek sukkel my dood met Koreaans, maar hou aan. 화이팅!

[@alejandracarrillo5510]

necesito ver esto con subtitulos en español😅😪

[@LindieBotes]

Lo siento :')

[@bluecandies]

This is my sixth year and I’m not even intermediate yet It’s been a very difficulty road but I’m not giving up 💪

[@LindieBotes]

You’ve got this!

[@이것저것유튜브-t2z]

소오름 완전 한국인인데요

[@ikasika87662000]

나보다 잘한다...

[@WentworthRocket]

There was loads of Kpop and stuff available in 2009

[@허창억-t8e]

韓国語の発音はとても素敵です。

[@LicensedTeacherFor4yo-7yo]

Mmm yours is so very enthusiastic mind. Your youtube-channel although it is free Came up with helping broaden aspects? such as my genuine occupation, studies' acquisitions& improvements, son education, etc something for present. ...

[@dripdrip08]

Your website doesnt work 😭

[@LindieBotes]

I’m redesigning it!

[@sofi.moreira]

안녕 언니! 저는 2년부터 한국어 공부해요. 하지만 제 한국어는 나빠요 😅

[@edinacaso1839]

❤❤❤

[@Lucas-gz8sy]

와 잘한다.

[@오렛바이]

한국어 자막 넣어주세요 ㆍㆍ

[@jonathanyhim2858]

안냐세요 저는 20년정도 한국살고 14년정도 미국에 살았는ㄴ데 둘 다 못해요 크ㅡ크크크크킄

[@Letgoletgo0]

오 ㅋ 잘 하시네요ㅋㅋ 그 머지, 암튼 등등 ㅋㅋ