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it is so fun having two angles 
right now i have two cameras going

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anyway are my windows too bright? it's a little bright 
isn't it? give me a second. oh, this is my outfit

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now we're ready to roll. hello my friends it's 
nina and we are back with a studying video

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as you saw by the title of this video i am going 
to be studying some korean and that is because

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i'm going to korea again! oh my god i'm so excited 
so i actually have mentioned this in a past video

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in my notion setup video i showed my notion and 
my schedule and on my calendar in june it did say

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that i'm going to korea now i'm properly 
saying it in a video. i am going to korea

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in two weeks i have not begun packing, i should 
probably get on that. but it's been three years

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since i've gone last. i went in october of 
2019 but i'm going again i'm going to seoul

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i'm probably going to busan and maybe some other 
cities. so as you may or may not know i am a korean american

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i'm ethnically korean, my entire family 
is from korea but i was born in the u.s and i

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lived in america my entire life. and i also 
happen to be one of those korean americans

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who can't speak korean fluently. there are 
korean americans who can speak fluently or

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well, i just wasn't like that. but for the last 
five years i have been studying korean on and off

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lately not as much because i just don't 
have as much time but since i am going to

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korea soon i thought that i should take some 
proper time to study. right now i would say i'm...

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am i conversational? kind of conversational, like 
a beginner conversational. if i had a conversation

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with a korean child i would maybe struggle but i 
can have very simple conversations at this point

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and then if i have enough time to think maybe 
i can properly speak or write i would say i'm

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like beginner intermediate. i have not taken the 
proper time to study so that's what we're going

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to do today, so let's just get started. i think the 
last time that i sat down and studied was a year ago

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and it was my last study video. um anyway we're 
back and i am going to study. so the game plan for

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today is i am going to literally just study 
common phrases. at this point i have studied

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enough grammar that i should focus on how to speak 
in everyday situations. i tend to avoid studying

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vocabulary just because it's a lot of memorization 
but at the same time i'm still very limited with

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my vocabulary. i have a very basic vocabulary for 
korean. i speak konglish a lot which means korean

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and english and that's because i won't know the 
korean word for a certain noun, a certain verb and

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so i'm still speaking basically half korean half 
english and that's not very great. so i want to

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properly study some common phrases so i can get 
around, maybe some vocabulary words. i especially

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want to study transportation vocabulary because 
i am traveling. i want to know how to get around,

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things like that. we'll see what else i want to 
study but for this episode of not really studying with nina

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i want to focus on vocab and common 
phrases. sometimes we just gotta go simple

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so a great tip if you're learning any language and you 
don't know where to start, start with phrases you

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want to say to other people such as ordering at 
a restaurant, asking for directions, or just asking

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any simple question. and think of vocabulary that 
you want to know. these are all very simple things

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but simple things that i avoid because it requires 
a lot of memorization and memorizing is hard sometimes

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so i kind of want to focus on ordering 
at restaurants i feel like that is one of my

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biggest challenges. i'm literally writing ordering 
in korean. i can order very simple things, i even have.

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when i was in vegas and i went to a korean 
sort of food court area i ordered soondubu and

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i ordered in korean. i had literally a conversation 
in korean with the person who worked there and i

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felt great. but most of the time i tend to back out 
or chicken out. i tend to just order in english or

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even i'll make my friend order for me just because 
i will let my nerves get to me, so i want to be

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a little more confident with ordering. and then 
something that i really need to do before i go to

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korea is practice korean. i have to get my muscle 
memory going again. i do still speak korean with my

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parents sometimes but i haven't been practicing 
as much. so i need to practice. i think for now i'm

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going to look up some vocab. i am also going to 
practice my korean handwriting because it's been

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a while. i've been very digital these days so 
i haven't been writing physically in a while

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ah there it is okay today i learned [transportation card]

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which is transportation card. so i think i'm 
going to do vocab first. transportation okay

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wow i have not written in korean in a 
very long time

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there's some sentences, okay. so basically i just 
searched up transportation vocabulary in korean

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and then i went on a website, this is 
learnkorean24.com and i am copying down the

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vocabulary. i'm also going to write down some 
sentences so i can memorize it. let's do this

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it's not like i'm even going 
to ask anyone that but okay

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oh my god something that i've noticed, or 
at least with me when i pronounce english

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or korean, i kind of have to change where 
in my body i'm speaking. so for english i

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kind of speak like here 
here... here-ish... like down here

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i can feel my voice up here but then with 
english i'm down here like, you know?

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how do i get to... how do i get to gangnam station

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also before you translate it try to translate it 
yourself and then see if you get it right just to

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make yourself practice. how do i go to gangnam 
station? please can i get it remotely right?

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i'll go with that.
time to hydrate. water break

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i think i took too much in my mouth

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that's what she said

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stay hydrated. i always 
have the dilemma the inner dilemma

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of deciding whether i'm going to speak to someone 
in english or korean but it's like... i could just

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say the thing in english but i also want to 
try to practice saying it in korean but then

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sometimes i might screw it up and then we end up 
speaking in english anyway so i'm trying to get better.

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the reason why i can't speak fluently or 
couldn't speak fluently, not that i can still, but

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at least now i can speak a little bit, but back 
then i couldn't speak any korean whatsoever

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i understood a bit but i always answered 
in english. it's because when i grew up

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my dad was speaking mostly in english but korean 
sometimes to my mom and then my mom was speaking

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in mostly korean and sometimes english and 
me growing up in california and going to

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an english-speaking school, i just learned english 
and would answer my family in english. even though

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i heard korean i wouldn't speak it back and so i 
didn't really make myself practice. i also didn't

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go to korean school or really participate much 
in korean communities. well i kind of did but then

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i kind of stopped, but basically i didn't give 
myself enough time to practice or learn.

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i had korean tutors back then but it was still difficult. 
especially as i was getting older, it was harder to

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learn it, so i did kind of miss out on that. but 
since 2017 i've been trying to study it better

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so i can speak it and even though i still have a 
long way to go i can speak a little bit more to

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a point where i can have like basic conversations 
with someone, so that's good enough. you could only

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get better from here. not blaming my parents for me 
not being able to speak it but... and the funny thing

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is my dad is fluent in korean now, but 20 something 
years ago he wasn't the most fluent or the most

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confident and so i would always speak english 
with him and then even today i still speak in

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english with him. sometimes i throw in some korean 
but it's just more comfortable just speaking english

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luckily my mom she speaks mostly korean 
so it's easy to speak with her, and my grandma

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also naturally speaks korean so i try to speak 
korean with her as well. so that's kind of how

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i grew up, i've told this story many times but 
just in case there are new people, that's my case

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i didn't really speak korean at home basically, 
and so i developed a little slower with korean

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also another thing with me is i want to pronounce 
things well, and so sometimes i'll chicken out of

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just speaking because i don't want to sound like 
i can't speak it. it's just like an insecurity and

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so sometimes i'll be like "i might as well just 
not speak at all" and i'll just not speak it but

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by doing that i kind of prevent myself from 
practicing, so something that my mom told me

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is to just speak as you can. even if it means 
your accent's not going to be perfect, you know

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some people might find that cute. so even if you 
don't sound perfect, it's better than holding

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yourself back and being too shy to speak it. so 
i'm trying to basically have more confidence in

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speaking. even if i don't sound perfect, even if i'm 
saying not the right thing, it's good to practice

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i still sometimes have a tendency 
to mispronounce some things

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one thing that i always mispronounce is 
gochu- i still can't pronounce it correctly

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because i'll be speaking english and then suddenly 
transitioning into a korean word sometimes i

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don't pronounce gochujang correctly and i'll say 
gochujang and ggochu is not an appropriate word so

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gg/kk is very similar to an english g so that's 
why naturally i'll say ggochujang

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so really try to practice sounds, especially 
for languages that are very much about sound

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and intonation, things like that. it'll 
be very important to pronounce things

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a certain way or else it could be misheard as 
something else. so definitely practice, get your

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muscle memory going. the translating 
website that i use is papago by the way

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gochujang

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i learned this just now!! no i didn't. yeah i did not learn that.

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oh my god. i'm guessing that's a 
traffic light. okay now i learned a new word

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my mouth does not move like this naturally

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where did i go wrong??

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imagine being fluent. must be nice. wow 
my handwriting has gotten a little messy

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intersection1 oh i don't even 
know how to say intersection.

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well i'm learning so many new words today

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when i went to korea three years ago i found 
myself speaking a lot with taxi drivers since

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i took the taxi a lot, so i remember that i 
struggled a bit with asking for directions

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or communicating with them. although sometimes 
i did have full-on conversations with them but

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i did remember that i struggled with that, 
so directly just think of situations that

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you want to be able to speak in and 
just think of all the scenarios and

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what you can say, how you should say it 
and that should guide you as you study

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i didn't even know how to say driver... 
that's another thing i struggle with

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i don't know how to say the cashier, waiter, 
driver, etc. those are some words that i need to know

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i didn't even know how to say 
airport... i know airplane

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okay i'm guessing that's 
just... oH that's stop. four stops

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i hope no one asks me for directions

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i already know that.
i'm so tempted to say shopping mall

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crosswalk??

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there are so many words

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so i reached the end of this website, and today 
i focus mostly on travel and asking questions

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in korean but i think that is going to be it for 
this video! i actually do have to go out and do

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some shopping to prepare to pack and get ready for 
korea, which is why i'm all dressed up anyway but

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that is going to be it for today's study session!
thank you for joining me, but yes i am excited to

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go back. it's been almost three years since the 
last time i went to korea which was also the

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first time, this is my second time. i'm very excited 
i'm definitely going to make a lot of content when

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i get there, it'll just be a fun time! i know a lot 
of my friends are also going to korea at the same

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time so hopefully i get to see them as well. if 
you're going to korea, let me know, let's hang out

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let's hang out! a lot more content related 
to my korea trip will be coming up and i

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hope you're ready! i have to get ready now. 
but that is going to be it for this video

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thank you so much for hanging out with me 
and i will see you in the next one!

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let's bring it in for a hug! you guys are kind of 
far away, i'm gonna actually bring you closer

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okay let's bring it in for a hug thank you 
for watching and i'll see you next time bye :D