오늘 걷지 않으면 내일 뛰어야 한다. (If you don’t walk today, you’ll have to run tomorrow).
If I were to pick only one quote to live by, I think I would go with the quote above. It has such a deep, motivational meaning, and has a power to remind us to not procrastinate. It is more or less similar to the quote, “Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today”, but in Korean.
Other than it being a motivational quote for me to do my daily tasks and routines, that sentence is meant to remind myself of my progress in learning Korean. If you happen to have read my previous post about my Napoleon Plans for 2019, you might notice that I wrote ‘learning Korean’ as one of the things I will focus more in 2019. My Korean learning schedule has been quite a mess, though, but I’m doing better than I was last year. And I want to keep this up by always reminding myself of that quote. Learn more, and more!
For some people, learning a foreign language may sound frightening, as we are exposed to a whole new list of unknown words and grammars and expressions. It may also feel boring, not fun, and not something that people get excited for. I feel that way too, sometimes, and that’s one of the reasons I have been progressing so slow with my Korean. But when I look back to the very essential reason why I started it, somehow, I feel more determined to continue learning. And about that reason? Well, at first, it was because of K-Pop and K-Dramas, and some of you might have guessed. But after months of studying, understanding the culture deeper, and spending my fourth semester in Korea as an exchange student, I realized that there was a more influential reason to keep studying the language; I want to continue my Master’s degree in Korea. Continue reading “Studying Korean? Here’s How I Do It”