안녕하세요, 조 입니다! Today I am going to be doing a video on Korean vocabulary memorization
How I memorize words quicker and you know,
easier. The first tip I have for you is memorize
vocabulary words in groups. So what I mean by this is find like a big group
subheading, heading, for words
So you want to learn nature or numbers or colors
You know find that kind of group and then group the words together because it's just much easier in that way
That's just the first thing that I would do for I'm starting to learn like
starting to learn words and then later on you can just like group random words together
The next one is find similarities and words or in groups of words
so for example
we have like mountain and land side so mountain is 산 and landslide is 산사태
So you can hear 산 is in both of those things because landslide has to do with mountains, and there's many words like this
So it's really easy if you're learning them in groups to find similarities in words, and then kind of get them
Together and group them together and then learn them easier that way
So the next one is find art and words this might sound like a hippie-ish and weird
But a lot of words especially in Korean because I feel like written Korean is kind of like an art. I think it's beautiful
So there's words that kind of look like the actual words
So for example mountain is 산. I'll put it down here and 산 has a little
Character that looks like this
And it looks like a mountain peak so that's how I remembered mountain really easily
And then planet is 행성 and it looks like this again
And so it has little... the little circle characters. I'm not gonna say the names of the characters
I don't really know the names of the letters
but the little circles look like planets
So it's really easy to remember 행성 because it looks like two little planets
Those are the ones that I'm gonna share with you
So it's really easy if you have a really creative thinking mind to just correlate words with the way
they look the next one is a really easy one and I recommend this for people who are learning how to read 한글 or
Maybe who just need to find like a bunch of easy words to learn these ones are the easiest. These are
Find words that are stolen from English
So there is tons of words that are stolen from English things like 카메라 camera, 모니터 monitor,
브로콜리 broccoli, 나이프 knife, 바나나,
커피, 코라. There's stuff like that
There's so so many of them and every time you read a Korean article or
Maybe like you're looking at Twitter posts from your favorite idols. You'll see a lot of these words stolen
so like 멤버들 means members 멤버 you hear that and
Yeah, there's tons and tons of words like that
so that's another great thing about learning Korean is that there's a lot of words that really sound like English words and
Although they're not the same thing it's really similar so if like you're ordering a cafe in Korea
You can get 아이스 아메리카노, iced americano, so you know things are really
Similar in that aspect. Next one is find sounds that correlate with the word, so this is like a really rare one
But I decided to put it in here because it helped me learn Thunder which is 천둥
천둥 is thunder and it kind of sounds like the way Thunder
Sounds, 천둥. The next one is find English words that correlate with the word
So for example grass is 풀 which sounds like pool so like a pool of grass
that's how I remembered it for some reason. Lake is 호수
Which sounds like horse, 호수, and so I memorized lake really easily. Forest is 숲
What sounds like soup so I
memorized that one again really easily, so these are like words that don't... that aren't the meaning of the actual word
But just sound like English words um
pumpkin is 호박 sounds like ho-bag kind of
But it does help you remember, so those ones are really really easy to memorize for me because I'm like, "Oh grass equals pool!"
"Lake equals 호수, lake equals horse!"
You know it sounds crazy, but it really does work. The next one is use words as much as you can in your everyday life
so
Things like talking to yourself are really important when you're learning Korean or talking to a language learning partner
But most importantly talking to yourself
I talked to my dog in Korean a lot, every time I seem him I'm like "안녕" or when he barks I'm like "뭐? 뭐해?"
And I do that a lot so like today I was eating and I was like 김치 그리고
오뗑 그리고 밥 because that was what I was eating for lunch, and yeah
I do a lot of that all the time. I talk to myself especially when I'm watching dramas
I usually talk to myself in Korean and react to the drama in Korean
Just helps me talk and learn because I don't have anyone really to talk to, besides like one person
But we normally just type we don't really talk talk oh and like when I go to bed
I say "잘자" and when I
When I'm journaling I try to incorporate as many Korean words as I know it's like if I say today
I'll say 오늘, 오늘은 instead of saying just today in my journal or I start my journals with
안녕하세요 and i end them with 사랑해요 or 사랑해
I don't usually use "요" the 존대말 formal language, um
And I say 잘 자 if I'm writing at night and stuff like that so
Yeah, just talk to yourself. It's really easy and it really does help. The next one is watch dramas
You can also learn words from listening to kpop, but I don't learn as much words
I just recognize words that I already know from kpop, but watching dramas is so so important for learning Korean like
So so important for learning. It helps you with your listening
You learn a bunch of words that way because they do repeat a bunch of words all the time in dramas things like
어떻게, 죽지마, don't die. 살려주세요, save me. Of course
안녕하세요, 안녕하십니까, 안녕
Those are just like repeated words, 카페, things like that so like 어디, 어디야
어디에서
어디까지 just a bunch of words that you just pick up on and like sentence structure stuff that are really nice and
I recommend using Viki to learn vocabulary words if you're watching like older dramas because Viki has like
the Korean subtitles
And then the English subtitles in the bottom and the Korean subtitles for some of them you can click on them
And they'll tell you the definition of the word
Just there, so it's really good for language learning
highly recommend. The next one is find words from songs so
What I mean by this is that if you are stuck in like an area or like a place where
You don't really know what you want to learn like what words you want to learn
You don't really have any like study pools, study word pools that you really like or that you want to learn
I recommend looking at a song that you really like and then writing it down all the way so for me right now
I'm running for 봄날, Spring Day and
what I do is I find the lyrics online and
I'll write down all the lyrics
Just like copy them into a notebook and then
after that I
Will look up each word that I don't know
so obviously I know what 봄날 means so I don't have look that up, I know what 겨울 means and
stuff like that so I didn't look those up, but for other words like 떨어지다, 멀어지다
떠돌다
you know some of those kind of weirder verbs I
Looked up
Those ones on Navers dictionary. I love Navers dictionary. They have a new Korean language learning dictionary that's really good and
I'll link all the stuff I'm talking about down below
Yeah, I really really enjoyed just looking those words up, and then I made a whole study set on Quizlet
which I'll talk about later, and I
Just study those words that I've learned from 봄날 and then as I listen to the song I can pick up on the words
That I know and I know what they're talking about which is very exciting. 먼지 like things like that
so yeah
Just find words from songs that you want to learn and then it's exciting because you get to listen to this song and be like
Oh wow
I know what they're saying! The next one is study, review and use a variety of resources to learn
So studying is of course the most important thing when it comes to learning vocabulary
My favorite thing that I use is Quizlet, which is a free program for phone and for laptop, and it's just amazing
I can't recommend it enough I use it for English vocabulary, I use it for
Korean vocabulary, I use it for like learning you know
Test stuff, stuff like that. I really really enjoy Quizlet, so so very much such a great resource
They have so many like games and stuff
Ways to learn that are really interesting so Quizlet is amazing. I also heard Anki was really good
I've never Anki because
I can't download it on my computer, but it's free on your computer
So I recommend you can check that one out as well if like a Windows laptop or whatever
Anki, I've heard good things
and then I use flashcards like good old-fashioned flashcards and
Writing them out of course is really a good way to learn them and also practice your handwriting and last
But not least is don't lose
Hope some words are gonna be a lot tougher than other words
and you're gonna be like so frustrated with yourself because
You're like why can't I learn the stupid word I've been studying for two hours, and that's okay
Just take a break and come back to it, and you'll be amazed. How quickly you'll be able to learn something else and
Once you learn the word it'll be down, and yeah of course you're gonna to review it
But it'll be much easier and take much less time to review and stuff then it would if you
Hadn't learned the word before so yes. I love you all so so very much
Thank you so much for watching this video. I swear
I'll get my How I'm Learning Korean language video out sometime once I figure out how to upload it, but yes
사랑해, 사랑해, 사랑해, 너무 감사합니다, 진짜 and 안녕히 계세요~
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