Vocabulary

I have tried to learn Korean for too long. I remember reading through many textbooks, doing the fill-in exercises and wondering why I couldn’t partake in a normal conversation after I had finished plowing through a pile of such textbooks. The key is the lack of flow. In my understanding of learning, what sets it apart from simply perceiving (as we do when we scroll through a social media page) is the correct rate of repetition. I wrote:

Learning efficiency – In order to learn efficiently we need to turn a stream of information into a flow. This entails the following: 1) we have an expectation about the nature of the next item, in other words, we grasp the “whole” it is a part of; 2) we receive new information interspersed with reminders of things we’ve received before, at an optimal rate of repetition; 3) we engage actively with the flow to help long-term memory, in other words, we are truly inter-ested.

Here is a list of words I had tried to learn the old way. Don’t try this at home! Instead, watch videos and never ever blame yourself when you don’t know a word.

변하다
성격
교복
경기
동료
이혼하다
성공하다
궁금하다
가렵다
긃다
참다
잔소리
씻다
주로
즐겁게
골치
심하다
변호사
결심
정하다

삼키다
깨지다
맑음
죄다
깨닫다
이별
잃다
자르다
들르다
보관하다
상담
밝다
감상하다
새벽
건너다
경기
고르다
다치다
빠지다
잠그다
취직
기대하다
소포
초청하다
전공
아내
정신
고치다
무대
풀다
수학
경찰관
게으르다
궁금하다
감추
씩씩하다
헤어지다
피부
어둡다
떨어지다
줄다
동료
칫솔
붐비다
공주병
합리
이익
관련
위해서
to change
character
uniform
game
colleague
to divorce
to succeed
to wonder
to itch
scratch
endure
to nag
to wash
mainly
merrily
headaches
be extreme
lawyer
determination
to choose
needle
to gulp down
to chip
sunny
to tighten
realize
farewell
to lose
to cut
drop in at
to store
consulting
to be bright
to appreciate
dawn
to cross
game
to choose
get hurt
to fall
to lock
job
to expect
parcel
to be invited
major
wife
mental
to fix
stage
solve
math
police officer
to be lazy
to wonder
to hide
to be spirited
to say goodbye
skin
to be dark
to fall
to shrink
colleague
toothbrush
bustle
princess
reasonable
profit
relation
for

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