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Description & Overview
You can read Korean. So why can't you SAY it?
That's not a vocabulary problem — it's a muscle problem. This 30-day shadowing bootcamp retrains your mouth: you listen to a native sentence and speak over it, copying the sounds, rhythm and melody until Korean stops being translation and starts being reflex. 15 minutes a day. That's the whole deal.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- 30 daily lessons + a clear how-to guide
- 60 free native audio tracks (download link inside the book): every day at TWO speeds — slow (0.7x, 4-second gaps to repeat) and natural (3-second gaps)
- Week 1 Sound Foundations: the vowels, tense vs aspirated consonants, final consonants, and linking that make Korean sound like Korean
- Week 2 Rhythm & Reduction: how real Korean compresses — and the little words that fill real speech
- Week 3 Real Situations: cafe, phone and office scripts, and the soft endings that make you sound human
- Week 4 Long Turns: 3-4 sentence stories, retelling, your own story — then a graduation recording you compare with Day 1
- Daily 6-step routine: LISTEN, SLOW SHADOW, NATURAL SHADOW, RECORD, CHECK, MAKE IT YOURS
- A "Today I fixed" tracker on every day — 30 small fixes is a new voice
WHO IT'S FOR
Learners who can read Hangul (TOPIK 1-3) and are stuck at "I understand but I can't speak." No conversation partner needed — your phone's voice memo is your partner.
MADE BY A REAL TEACHER
I'm Gibum, a Korean teacher in Kobe, Japan. This is the exact routine I give my students who freeze when it's their turn to talk — Book 2 of my "Real Korean They Don't Teach in Textbooks" series (Book 1: Jiwoo's Thirty Nights, a Korean reading diary).