July will be the second month of the Add1Challenge. So how are my language learning goals for Korean coming on so far?

Your Free Language Planner

Remember, every month if you’re inspired by these Clear The List posts, you can download your free simple planner to help you set your own goals for the coming month. Click the image below to get July’s version now.

And if you’re after more thorough planning, The Solo Language Learner Planner recently got a major update and more than doubled in size! It’s digital and print-ready and 100% re-usable because you can download it as many times as you need. Ready for that? Get The Solo Language Learner Planner now, or click through to read 7 Ways to Track Your Language Learning below for a little more explanation of what’s inside.

What happened in June?

7 Ways to Track Your Language Learning – On the blog, I shared 7 ways shared in The Solo Language Learner Planner that you can use to track your language learning goals.

What I Use to Plan My Language Learning – The video you’ve just seen above. A walk-through of The Solo Language Learner Planner.

9 Reasons to Learn Cornish – Funnily enough, completely unintentionally, this video was released the day before the start of Speak Cornish Week! Pretty proud of that accidental scheduling there. You can also get a free Cornish Starter Page on the blog article for this.

5 Tips to Relearn a Language You Used to Know – this question was requested by Zoe Land and this idea of ‘fossilisation’ of a language is definitely something I’ve experienced so I wanted to tackle it head on in a 5 Tips video.

Teach Languages Online Podcast – There’s been three episodes of the Teach Languages Online Podcast this month as I get back into a groove with it! First we looked at social media, then content creation, and finally email marketing.

Online Teaching Marketing Masterclass – I went live on the last weekend of June for an updated 3 day masterclass collection of the Online Teaching Marketing Masterclass. You can still get access to the recordings of the presentations and Q+As here.

Language Learning Review for June

I’m happy with how things have gone in June with my language learning goals.

Being part of the Add1Challenge with others learning Korean has helped me to find the support and community for the language that I didn’t really have before, which is great.

I’ve completed my goal of 60 minutes x 5 days per week, which is what I do typically anyway but right now, as I’m preparing for a big running event mid-July (my first ultra-marathon!) I don’t have the extra weekend time to dedicate to it as I’m running for hours on end!

So, of course, perhaps the obvious next question here is “Why don’t you listen to Korean lessons/podcasts/music when you run?”

The answer is “I do a little bit!”

I have a running playlist that does include some Korean music, but mostly it’s a mix of reggaeton, Rosalía, Billie Eilish, Soldi by Mahmood, and other songs I can clap to when I running alone on the canal path because that’s what motivates me most.

Language Learning Goals for July

Korean

I’m coming into month 2 of the Add1Challenge that I’m doing for Korean before visiting the country with Shannon (who I co-host Clear The List with and who also hosts the Add1Challenge!)

I’ve found what is working and fits into my life most so here’s my plan going forward for July…

italki lessons weekly – My italki tutor for Korean is great! (her profile is here if you’d like lessons) I feel like she really understands how I learn and, perhaps most importantly, how I like to learn. I’ve got my weekly lessons books for July.

Drops – I’ve been using Drops to increase my Korean vocabulary for 5 minutes each day, typically in the morning when I’m having my tea at the end of breakfast.

KoreanClass101 – I normally listen to at least one of the KoreanClass101 lessons on the app each day. I’ll continue this for July.

LingQ – LingQ is a handy way to quickly spend a little time doing something useful on my phone and I normally get to use it around once a day for one ‘part’ of their ‘courses’.

Eggbun – I’ve still got a few free lessons left than I haven’t done yet on Eggbun so I’ll be finishing that up in July.

Duolingo – I tested out of the first 5 sections of Duolingo for Korean, which I was pleased about! I don’t use this much because I know I’m unlikely to finish it before actually going to South Korea but I’m keeping it there as an option.

Expanding on Notes – over all the time I’ve studied Korean, I’ve gathered lots of notes from various sources. I also have this Kimchi Korean workbook I picked up in France when I first started the language in 2016. I finished working through that in June.

One thing I’m working on doing right now is ‘distilling’ (to borrow a Goldlist Method term) all of the Kimchi vocab and phrases I don’t yet know that will be useful into my notebook and then expanding on that by writing my own phrases using what I’ve got from that.

Then I tend to share some of these with my tutor, which we use as a basis for the start of our lessons.

Add1Challenge Day 30 Video

My Clear The List post this month is a little later than usual because I wanted to share my Day 30 Add1Challenge video with it to track my progress! Here it is…