My progress so far has been on pace with my learning plan so I have finished all the lessons I listed. However, I feel that I may have made my pace too quick. I feel that I spend all of my time learning the lesson that I don't have a chance to practice and memorize it before moving on to the next one. So now, I have decided to slow down a bit and go back and review and truly practice around the sessions. I feel that I'm currently walking on a road and paving it as I walk over it. I'm not giving myself enough time to truly build the foundation before I move to next lesson.
This could also be because the time I have blocked off for learning and review is much less than it should be. For example, I try to spend 30 minutes to 1 hour on Korean daily. However, when I was in Korea, I had a 2 hour daily Korean class and roughly 30 minutes to 1 hour's worth of homework every day. So I would end up studying 2.5-3 hours a day along with the luxury of being immersed in Korean. My other classes were not very demanding so I was easily able to meet the demands of my korean class but it's much harder to do that at Richmond where almost all of my classes require daily homework. On top of that I have my part-time job.
I plan to slow down a bit on the learning I do and focus on reviewing instead. I will also try to find ways to make my daily Korean practice more of a priority and more of a fun, relaxing time for myself. Lately, it's been hard to find the motivation to get through the lessons and exercises but I hope to turn that around.
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