I recently read "Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget it" by Gabriel Wyner and found that a lot of what he wrote made sense. He talks more about how people learn things and how he applied that to learning languages, than any language in particular. It's a very useful/interesting book. But the main takeaways for me were: 1) Use a Spaced-Repetition System (I personally use Mental Case for the Mac and iPhone/iPad) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition 2) Make your own flash cards for these systems, using images and sounds if possible, never someone elses. 3) Make sure you practice recall, so not just looking at the two words Korean and English side by side, but only seeing one and having to recall the other side (most SRS software does this by design) One of the key things is that the more neurons you can make fire when storing a given memory, the easier it will be to recall it. So for example, when I was making the flash card for 시장 (market), I spent a minute on Google Images trying to find a good image for a busy market, then decided to look for a picture of the market in my own town. Spending that valuable minute-ish means that whenever I see the word 시장 now I can't help but think of the market in my home town (that I've walked past and been in hundreds of times) and it easily comes to mind.

Seems like Andy brought some awesome tips that now I wanna try but I also thought I'd mention what I'm doing lately and has seemed to help a lot. I made flash cards on just a simple app like Cram. I put the English word on the front and the Korean word on the back. I go through them like that and I don't just say the word to myself or anything. I write down what I think it is. It helps a ton. Go! Billy Korean also has a video of memorizing vocab and that's what I tried before I started doing it my way and it's very helpful. I'll link the video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chfEEV89Kj8