I decided to come back to learn Korean language after I stopped learning for a few months. It was because my mp3 player was broken. Now, i seemed to solve this problem.

My way of learning new language is that I start with listening as much as I can.

Today, September 1,2013, I started listening to Korean podcast I downloaded from a radio website.
I've listened since 11 am until now which is 8.30 pm. It's close to 12 hours. I'm still listening while I am writing this, too.

And I plan to listen to it this whole night during my sleep.

Let see how long I can listen to it until I wake up tomorrow morning.

I discovered this technique when I was studying in Canada, almost 20 years ago (during 1997 - 1999.)

Back then, I received a radio from a Thai student. I tuned in to listen to songs.

And then, i realized that if I really wanted to be able to speak English, I should listen to people's real conversations; therefore, i tuned the radio to Talk Radio of the local radio stations.

I listen to the talk radio all days and all nights or I should say I didn't listen only when I was in classes.
Besides that I listened to it almost all the time. (During day time i listened to my walk man radio)

I did this for about a year and a half.
It was very tiring and gave me headache for the first three months. It was like your brain worked all the time you listened. Its effect was that I was really tired during day time. I felt exhausted and sleepy all day.
After that it was a little better. Maybe because I was used to it.


Anyway, after a long time this effort paid me off.
My English was getting better especially with listening skill.

One of the most proudest moment in my life was that when a Canadian asked me after he heard me talking over the phone with someone.
Canadian guy: How long have you been here?
Me:                A year and a half.
Canadian guy: Your English is very good. You don't have any accent at all.
Me (with surprise): Really? Thank you very much.
(Actually, I wasn't so sure how 'you don't have any accent at all' meant, but I was overwhelmed with the sentence 'your English is very good' ^_____^)

I went to ask my Thai friends the meaning of 'you don't have any accent at atll'.
It means that you have a similar accent to native speaker and cannot tell where you're from.

After that proud moment, I realized that my accent came from practicing listening for a long time.

Therefore, in order to learn my forth language, I start with listening skill like what I am doing now.

This time I am listening to Korean and hope that I will be able to understand Korean at the end of this year.

Hope the listening pays me off like I did before><

PS. Btw, I have started sit-up exercise for a few day and it is going good, so far.