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So I took my first practice tests for TOPIK II here. It was much harder than I expected, especially reading! I’m kinda shocked I did better with listening than reading because listening has always been my weakest point, but maybe this past year of living in Korea but not studying or reading anything other than Kakaotalk channel pages has changed that. I got 64 in listening and 58 in reading, I have no idea how to test my writing skills myself but if I estimate another 50 points I guess I’d get around a level 4. No way! I know I can do better than that! I’m really not used to taking exams and the main thing I felt whilst taking the practice tests is that I need to increase my vocabulary a lot. So, time to start actually studying! 

Started planning my Korean study this week. This is my first time reading a Korean book and I just picked one from my boyfriend’s bookshelf. There’s lots of vocab I don’t know but i get the jist most of the time. Also met a new language exchange partner and took the topik listening practice test, I’m planning to take the other practice tests next week to get an idea of what level I’m at and what i need to improve on.

Trying to improve my handwriting, mostly so i can read other people’s handwriting more easily. I never learnt stroke order (i really recommend doing that) and never wrote much by hand. But as you can see in the first picture my english handwriting is also like a child’s, so thats probably the reason my korean is too. 1) my handwriting 2) my boyfriend’s handwriting 3) my english. The rest is me practicing writing quickly and trying to copy my boyfriend’s writing but it looks awful. Then i got bored and just tried to write big. ㅁ, ㄹ and ㄷ/ ㅌ are the characters i struggle with most. I still cannot figure out to make the correct stroke order for ㄹ naturally. Someone teach me how to read handwriting (like my boyfriend’s here, i would never know that says 운명) without having to improve my own?