windbabel

I've been really self-conscious about getting back into learning Korean. It's scary to think I may have lost a lot of my proficiency via my momentum break, but there's no version of being afraid that'll alleviate that and so I'm pressing on. 

Today my goal is to get reacquainted, revisit some old lessons and see how I feel. Let's try it. (7:00am)

Constructions
 저눈 한극 사람입니다 - I am Korean
여자아이 - girl (woman child)
그 남자는 중극 사람입니다 - That man is Chinese
사람은 한극 사람입니다 - That person is Korean

Vocab
한극 - Korean (person)
미극 - American (person)
중극 - Chinese (person)
사람 - person
남자 - man 
여자 - woman
아이 - child
사람 - family?
이 - this
그 - that
저 - that..over there

Particles
은/는 -  introduce noun/pronoun as the topic of a sentence, show emphasis, show contrast | use eun if the preceding noun ends in a consonant, else use neun

Journal Notes
7:25am - I'm feeling surprised that relearning is relatively easy and that my mouth has retained a lot of the shapes and my brain has retained a lot of how to read 한글, though it is taking some reacclimating to bring it all back to the foreground. This is good, though! This feels good. It's going to be slower than I liked, but faster than I feared.  

7:32am - Okay, I think I'm going to call it here. That was two units of structure I just went over and it isn't fast, but it does represent five individual lessons. I think half an hour a day is a good pace to relearn. I might reduce it once I get back up to speed, maybe focus on retention? I'm not sure. I know people have complained about Lingodeer because they say, "at a certain point I spend a lot of time practicing vocab rather than learning new things." But I think that's probably a matter of not using the language? Whereas I have plenty of places to employ it in my daily life and I'm just trying to make up ground and then make a lot more to get to the place I can use it more regularly.