Day 2 of Korean in 80 days

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It's day 2 and my first week of learning Korean. Out of the 50 phrases I set out to learn, today I chose 10 more, despite the fact that I barely remembered two phrases from yesterday's lot of 10. Also, I can't recall what one of them was this morning. So, effectively 1 out of 10.

Still, going with the learning tips from YouTube (I wrote about my learning strategy here), I'm going to stick to this many for day 2 and adjust accordingly. According to this study plan, I will take in Korean lessons in chunks of 15 minutes, 3 times a day.

- In the morning, the learning is super chill. Sit back, relax and listen. Maybe a little 'shadowing' which is repeating the words I hear, even if it's incorrectly pronounced. I did mean to write flash cards but since I'm travelling, the hangul writing and pronunciation are in a spreadsheet right now.

- In the afternoon, go into the lesson more by breaking down the phrases or learning about grammar. Because I picked 10 phrases, I actually do this for only one or two of the sentences. The point for week 1 is more exposure and habit building for me, to carve out the pattern for learning into my days, so I'm pretty ok with not actually 'getting' the grammar for now.

- In the evening, try to recall at least one of the sentences. As many as I can, but I'm not going to be too hard on myself if I can only come up with the one. Again, the point is to have a habit I can sustain.

Yesterday, I found that Google translate would give me different translations for some of the phrases. It was ok because there were only a couple. Today, though, there are more phrases which switched up. It made me worried enough into thinking that I should get a private tutor asap because I didn't want to be committing to memory some strange, unusable direct translations. But, I calmed down and reminded myself that I'll be home soon and I can establish a better routine then while also getting better, maybe more formal resources (a book, a website or course).

Here are the ten phrases of the day:

1. Is everything okay? byeol-il eobs-eoyo?
2. Take a moment. Jamsi sigan-eul naeeo
3. I like that. Naneun geugeos-eul joh-ahanda
4. I know. Al-ayo
5. What time is it? myeoch siyeyo?
6. I want food. Naneun eumsig-eul wonhanda
7. Do you have snacks? Gansig iss-eoyo?
8. What are you doing? Mwohaseyo?
9. I'm going out. Naneun nagayo.
10. Do you need anything? Mwo pil-yohan geo iss-eoyo?

I'm putting them here because I want to look back at this journey and laugh. It's confounding now, but things often seem funny in retrospect.

[This part is written on Day 3 - A quick test shows that, the morning after, I remember two of the ten. It's a slightly better track record than the first day. By the way, I would have loved to have the hangul written out here but since I copy and paste it from Google translate, I think that's considered AI content and I don't feel like having any AI content on here.]

Apart from repeating it rote and writing the words down (on a flash card and then repeating it 100 times, for example), what else can I do to make me remember these phrases? They are already things that I would say in every day speech but something is not landing. My recall is barely working. Is it the lack of immersion or pressure?

I'm going to try repeating one phrase the whole day. Wish me luck!