The return of the bestseller chosen by 200,000 readers!
Before you blame English textbooks or English academies, read this book first!

When "Have You Memorized an English Book?" was first published in January 2017, it ranked first in the self-improvement category and received a positive response from over 200,000 readers.
However, after its publication, I received feedback from many readers saying that they thought the book was meant to be memorized, or that they bought a conversation book and tried to memorize it, but ended up struggling and giving up after a short while.
So, author Kim Min-sik began to wonder if there was anything he could do to help readers who were trying to memorize an English book.
As a result, we have prepared a new edition to reward readers who have loved us so far and to provide readers who have not yet read it with an easier way to memorize an English book.
By reading this book, "Have You Memorized an English Book? New Edition," and memorizing only the appendix, anyone will experience a surge in English fluency.

The readers who were interested in “Have you memorized an English book?” were not in their 20s, but in their 40s and 50s.
The readers I expected and the actual readers were completely different.
“I decided to study English for the first time in a while and read a book, but then they told me to buy another conversation book?” “Oh, since I’d already decided, I bought a conversation book, looked through English grammar and vocabulary, and memorized sentences.
However, I had a hard time memorizing difficult sentences that I don't use often in daily life, and I gave up soon after." It was sad and upsetting to hear many stories like this.
How difficult is it to decide to study English?
After leaving the company, I went around giving author lectures at libraries across the country and found that there were still quite a few people trying to study English by reading “Have You Memorized an English Book?”
So I decided.
For those of you trying to memorize an entire English book, let's create a collection of easy-to-remember, frequently used expressions as a supplementary "Conversational Example Sentences"! I've selected, organized, and refined 30 conversational examples, enough to memorize in 100 days.

--- p.5-6

If you're studying as a hobby, then you can just do it for fun.
But if you want to study with the determination to change your life, you must memorize the book.
Even if it's hard, that's what lasts the longest and is remembered the best.
To build a fancy and tall building, you need to put more effort into the invisible underground foundation work.
As I endure and persevere through the arduous process of memorization, something changes within me.
When you persevere through hard times and achieve something, you feel a sense of pride.
If you try to use tricks and just get by, it will be difficult for your English skills and personality to improve.
If I give up, that will be my limit.
You have to persevere to become a better person.
I think the most important thing in life is perhaps the desire to improve.
I have the mindset that tomorrow will be a better life than today.
'Because there is a steady today, tomorrow is infinite.'
I live each day with this determination.
I wanted to become someone who gets better every day and changes their life by building up those days.
So when I first started studying English, I memorized sentences every day.
If you memorize 10 sentences every day, you can memorize an entire book in a few months.
If you memorize one conversation book, your English will become more fluent.
For those of you wondering, "How is that possible?", I'll share the secret to learning English that changed my life.
--- p.13

When I was in college in the late 1980s, my dream was to study abroad in the United States.
I hated Korea, a country where soldiers were presidents, I hated engineering, a major that didn't suit my aptitude, and I hated my father, who decided my future regardless of my wishes.
The best way to escape from all that was to study abroad.
But it wasn't easy.
If I want to go abroad for graduate school, my undergraduate grades are not enough, and if I want to change my major, I have to start over from the undergraduate level, but I can't afford the expenses.
Considering my family circumstances, it was right to give up on studying abroad.
But I couldn't give up easily because I thought I would be able to speak English well if I studied abroad.
Then I thought.
Couldn't I study English in Korea? If I lived here as if I were in America, wouldn't that be studying abroad?
During the semester, it is difficult to manage time as I have to attend classes and do assignments.
But during vacation, you can make the 24 hours of the day your own if you put your mind to it.
Vacation East
What if I lived each day as if I were on a short-term study abroad trip to the US? That's how I got started.
Self-immersion study abroad camp!
--- p.57-58

If you have any questions, go to the Wikipedia English homepage you've bookmarked and search in English.
Try clicking on the words highlighted in blue on the screen.
Just navigating the world of diverse words and entries in Wikipedia can be a fun way to surf the web.
Learning new English expressions is a bonus.
In the past, people studied English by looking at English dictionaries, English newspapers, and Time magazine, but in the future, people who play with Wikipedia, YouTube, and ChatGPT will learn English more easily.
Remember, we live in a world where hard work can't beat fun.
--- p.148-149

When I was studying English in 1990, I listened to conversation tapes over and over again, and listened to AFKN News on the radio every hour.
In those days before the Internet, radio was my English teacher.
I studied reading comprehension, so I went to the used bookstores in front of the Yongsan US military base and collected Stephen King novels.
When I saw a foreigner on the street, I chased after him and, despite my shyness, stammered and spoke to him.
Back then, studying English meant collecting materials and meeting people.
Times have changed.
ChatGPT offers native English conversation tutors, English essay editors, reading material providers, and even translation services.
Oh my god, oh my god.
What's even more amazing is that you can create your own learning method that suits your level of English, whether you're a beginner, intermediate, or advanced.
A new world of English study has opened up.
Now, even if you say you can't study because you don't have time, you can't say you can't study because you don't have money.

--- p.164

According to research by educators, there are age limits to improving cognitive abilities.
The environment in which you grow up during childhood definitely has an impact.
But non-cognitive abilities are not like that.
Even as an adult, you can still develop perseverance.
When trying to develop perseverance, your mindset is important.
People who believe that early English education is important will not improve their English skills no matter how much they study as they get older.
When my English doesn't improve, I always make excuses and give up easily.
“Hey, it’s already too late, what can I do at this age!”
The problem is that this attitude kicks away the opportunity to develop the non-cognitive ability called persistence.
Self-esteem and perseverance are the most valuable foundations for living life.
Let's improve your English skills by studying English memorization, and also build self-esteem and perseverance.

--- p.180-181

I thought a lot while writing this book.
How can I properly share my secrets for learning English? When I was a senior in college, I inspired people with stories I read in books.
'They say this kind of world is coming.
English, I have to study it.'
I was repeating like a parrot what I had read in a book without even experiencing it.
So how empty it must have been.
Now that I'm old enough, I can tell you about my experiences in life.
'Okay, let's motivate ourselves to study English with a story about ourselves, a story we know best.
Let's write about how studying English has helped me land a fun job, how English has made my life more enjoyable, and how English has allowed me to travel abroad every even month after retirement.
There are so many things you can enjoy if you are good at English.
You can enjoy reading a lot of interesting articles on the Internet, enjoy interesting YouTube videos, and travel anywhere in the world.
I wish more people would enjoy learning English.
I, too, will challenge that desire once again.
Hope it works out this time!
--- p.209-210

To get high scores on English tests, we have focused on memorization our entire lives.
Because you need to input more information, more difficult words, and more difficult grammar into your head to do well on the test.
The process was not fun and was just difficult.
I've only ever typed in my entire life and never had a chance to practice output.
When it comes to speaking English well, output is more important than input.
Just as you memorize poetry and speeches, you should also memorize English conversations.
The key here is consistent output practice.
It is important to read a book out loud for 10 minutes in the morning, but it is also essential to practice printing out what you have memorized whenever you have time during the day.
Since publishing this book in 2017, I've met many readers and often heard them complain about how difficult it is to memorize an English book.
But the way we've been studying our whole lives is to sit quietly at a desk and type while looking at it.
I'm not used to reciting things out loud.
We've created teaching materials and audio files to help you memorize English conversations easily.

--- p.230-231