So for the past few months, I've actually kept up with my habit. I've been studying Korean almost every day. I was doing my Korean lessons again and the new deck that I made has been growing with more cards. I created my own custom GPT to help me create cards in the specific format I use for Anki. After a tutoring session or two, I'll take those notes and run it through the custom GPT to create several flash cards. Then I can take those cards and using a plugin, I can use ElevenLabs to generate natural sounding Korean speech for the flash card. It's awesome! And super easy to add new cards.

I've also found a Korean penpal that I chat with almost every day. She lives in Korea and is learning English, though like many Koreans, she already knows English very well since they learn it starting from elementary school.

I always have those days where I am having a ton of trouble with some cards. My brain just has a super difficult time learning some words. I've come up with a solution that I like though. I'll add a super easy mnemonic that bascially gives the answer away. Then, as I continue to get the answer right, I'll remove parts of the mnemonic to make it more difficult. But I still basically remember it so it's easier to remember the word.

I still have a lot of trouble with actually creating and recalling sentences when speaking though. Especially conjugating correctly. So I'm increasing my focus on that area. ChatGPT is also really good at quizzing you and correcting your mistakes. The audio only version really isn't there yet, but I can transcribe my speech to Korean since I don't know how to type on a Korean style keyboard yet. I'm not sure if I'm ever going to. I think I'm fine with audio transcription.

There have been days where I really don't want to do it. I still force myself to do at least a couple cards, or at least do all of the review cards (no new cards). Then the next day I'm able to come back up to speed when I've got a bit more energy.

I wouldn't say I'm "happy" with my progress, but it's progress, and I'm content with it. I can't really be that upset when I'm only spending 30-60 minutes a day focused specifically on it. I'm getting what I'm putting in, and right now, putting in this amount of effort feels good. I can always increase it if I want to.