I know this is going to sound bad but with my depressing it’s hard for me to find the energy to study and I seem to do better with other people. Is there anyone who wouldn’t mind being in a group chat or something to learn korean? (If you don’t mind posting this I’ll come off anon)

Doesn’t sound bad at all, a lot of people have the same trouble! 
If anyone knows any group chats or would like to start one please reply/reblog! You could also try hellotalk and ask people to add you/start a group chat there. Good luck with your studies~  

Would you please share your usual studying schedule? I am just feeling surprised that you can studying so many stuffs. Thank you so much for your all sharing. Very informative. ^^

I’ve never really had much of set schedule, which is probably why I’ve used so many different resources! I’ve always tried to focus on studying little and often, and trying to study/use korean at least a little every day. For example when I was a beginner I tried to do one talktomeinkorean lesson everyday. Regular language exchange once or twice a week. Maybe one youtube lesson or one diary on lang-8 a day. 

After passing the very beginner stage honestly I just did online chatting and whenever something I didn’t know came up I googled it (e.g. “~느라 meaning”, “라서 in english”) and checked whatever pages came up. Also I never just sat down and forced myself to look through a textbook, I read/listened to/researched things that interested me and things that were relevant to my conversations with people, so I always enjoyed studying and absorbed things because of that. Now I’m a higher level but I just do the same, I study things I need for my daily life and things that interest me and I do it whenever I have a spare minute or a day off, I always do at least a little every day though (read an article/look through my vocab memos/ask someone about something). Although that’s a lot easier now that I’m living in Korea and conduct my daily life in Korean. I am thinking of taking TOPIK soon though so I might have to up my game a little haha. Thank you for the question! I’m glad you like the resources I share 🙂 

can i ask what are your other sources of korean lessons? does it have free pdfs and lessons too like ttmik?

Hi! My other sources with actual lessons were howtostudykorean which has very informative grammar explanations and Clare You and Eunsu Cho’s Intermediate korean which has reading and listening passages (you can go on to use this once you’ve passed beginner level on TTMIK or HTSK.)
If you check /tagged/resources on my you’ll be able to find pretty much every source I’ve ever used. Or if you’d like textbooks instead of online sites, @hannah-dulset has a great masterpost here. 🙂

New words related to finding work 

신조어 = newly coined words
태반 = mostly, majority 
장기간 = long time 
장차 = in the future 
시집 = marriage 
다소 = somewhat, a little 
과장 = exaggeration 
일컫다 = refer to 
점검 = check, inspection

맛이 갔다

In a bad state

  • (food) gone bad, stale, rotten

맥주 맛이 갔어 = The beer’s gone flat.

  • (things) broken

내 컴퓨터는 맛이 갔어 = My computer’s given up.

  • (people) lost it, gone crazy; done for (when tired/drunk/defeated)

쟤 맛이 갔어 = He totally freaked out.
난 그렇게 맛이 가지 않았어 = I wasn’t that wasted.