Learning From Korea: 123 Days and Counting

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Annyeong everyone!

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If I could study or practice one Korean art or tradition, It would be Hangul. Actually I already started practicing it and It's been 123 days since I started, I didn't think I would go this far. and the journey has really changed how I see language and even the world around me.

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If someone had told me a few months ago that I would wake up every day excited to study Korean letters. I would have laughed.

Honestly at first, I thought it would be really hard to learn. It did not look easy in the dramas which made me always wonder how they managed to read it.

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I didn’t like the fact that I needed subtitles in order to watch a drama, I wanted to understand it by myself so I guess that was it all started. Sometimes the subtitles would disappear or I would find out that it did not really rhyme with what the actor was supposed to say. That was when I knew I had to learn it myself.

I wanted enjoy the things I loved and I wanted to feel closer to Hangul and to the people who used it. I wanted to enjoy my dramas and k-pop songs without any translations.

There were times when I forgot what I had learnt, it was not easy. But with time it started getting easy.

Now, whenever I hear some words in a drama, I can understand a few things without the subtitles. That feeling is one of the best feeling ever. It makes me really so proud of myself.

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I'm not perfect yet but I see a lot of progress.

Learning Hangul made me consistent and patient. I go hard everyday so as to not loose my 123 day streak. It has become a part of my daily routine. Sometimes when I'm learning, I listen to my k-pop as well, it helps a lot.

Whenever my friends see me writing a bunch of lines and circles, they would tease and laugh and call it alien language, they thought I was funny learning Hangul and I would just laugh along with them because they did not understand any of what I was doing.

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It kinda keeps me occupied and gives me something to look forward to everyday.

I think there was a day when I tried reading an article online, it was in Korean. Even though I did not get it all but I could pick up a few words. Learning Hangul, I would be able to connect with knew people and try out Korean activities online.

I then realized that even though we (people) comes from different parts of the world. We all want that peace and understanding. We all try to connect and try to understand.

And now that I'm already too into this, I don’t think I would want to stop without being perfect. Persistency. When I first started, my goal was just to understand my favorite idols and actors without subtitles but it somehow became a new version of myself. I never thought I could be this patient or this persistent in wanting to do something.

Hangul is not a hobby to me anymore. It has taught me that I can do hard things if I put my mind to it. It taught me patience, discipline and the joy that came with it in learning just a word.

If I could practice or study one Korean tradition, it would definitely be Hangul. Because it already represents everything I've learnt these past 123 days.

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