I Tried To Learn Korean In 60 Days

Inga documents her journey of trying to learn a new language, Korean, in 60 days. It’s a challenge that’s as fun as it is painful, with a lot of lessons, a lot of homework, and a lot of embarrassing herself in front of her friends.

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[foojae]

Inga gets all the hard assignments while Steven just eats 3 delicious food at drastic different prices.

[vvurzle]

**shows a snippet of jackson wang** imagine inga & jackson not just speaking in english, cantonese & mandarin, but now also korean 🤯

[cloudj]

I feel so proud when she started practicing talking in korean with her friends and they complimented her because i know how hard it is to learn koream especially for me, i am learning korean all by myself and i have no korean friends. *sending virtual hugs to everyone learning korean and other language* fighting! : )
Edit: OMG thank you for the likes i didn't expect this to blow up ㅋㅋ

[deeptiverma]

She's using all kinds of stuff like practice papers, proper notes, a tutor...
And I am learning Korean alone with Duolingo 🤣

[charmng]

She’s learned more than Ollie in 2 months than his entirety of being on Jolly 😂

[minarae]

Does this mean she met nct and jackson wang? Omygod.

New dream: Be a buzzfeed producer.

[wwinnn-mzgg]

i just want to understand k dramas and bts without subtitles is that too much to ask.

[mekiyahrose]

My tips for learning a different languange is to BUILD VOCABULARY... I feel like most of the time when you're taught a language in a class you learn phrases but you cant communicate without knowing any words so building vocab will significantly help you form grammatically correct sentences and become more fluent. You can build vocab fast by learning the words for everyday foods, items, people, animals, clothes essentially learning like a baby. Hope this helps!

[mopeadaz]

Inga: *takes all sorts of notes and has a proper tutor

Me over here trying to learn Japanese through Duolingo alone: 😅😅

[iskuter]

Omg.. My aunt learned the whole korean language through kdramas! We went to korea for a vacation and she was conversing with the locals like a boss.. she can't write but she understands and speaks really good according to everyone we met.. lol

[AliKw]

I’m a korean adoptee to white parents and I LOVE this video. My parents never hid my culture from me and they even took me to various korean language schools in our area at a young age, but there was always this shame I felt about not being able to just innately pick it up or naturally speak it even though I was only really immersed in the language as an infant. Hearing conversational Korean brings up a lot of happy emotions for me and I am so proud of Inga for doing all this in 2 months!! I’m also learning Korean on duolingo but I somehow never thought about writing stuff down again and taking actual notes 😅😅 super inspired now

[jean-kkcy]

Inga: learning korean in 60 days


me: trying to learn korean for a year and not improving

[raymundorobles]

That scene where she was ordering food in Korean gave me anxiety. I can only imagine how stressful that was for her. Lol.

[marisasabori]

She knows more in 2 months than I do in 8 months but then I remember that she has a Korean teacher, Korean friends, Korean restaurants, Korea town that all help her and converse with her in Korean. And I only have kpop and kdramas and myself😔😔. Good job inga keep practicing👏👏

[bleepbloop]

finally, a "trying to learn a langguage" video where the person is actually commited and trying. props to u, keep it up

[yin]

I feel like I would learn Korean so much faster if I could go to a place to learn it, and had native Korean people to talk to. ;-; I’m trying to learn it on my own, and sometimes I don’t know if I’m pronouncing things right.

[James-gqfx]

Me just wanting to know Korean to watch Kdrama without subtitles

[richardwidjaja]

Imagine if Inga responds the comments by using Korean language

[dandaelione]

I remember when this was posted I was just learning the alphabet, now I can easily understand (most) everyday conversations! Korean is such a beautiful language, I really want to continue my lessons and hopefully I'll be able to call myself fluent someday ☺️

[elizabethmunshya]

All Im using for learning Korean is Youtube and Duolingo, I only use duolingo to get used to the characters and the sounds but I use youtube for vocabulary. I also recommend that you label your room with Korean words, For example, Labeling your door as door in Korean, Thats very helpful to memorize the vocabulary.