The advantages of a language exchange:

• no pressure
• no correcting mistakes – motivating
• make friends?
• 100% speaking

Surprisingly? but I see significant progress in speaking, sentence forming. All due to studying on regular basis? Of course! 🎉

And review of old material too!

To start learning Korean I would advise to learn words that are almost the same as in English. And very simple words.

콜라 (kolla), 피자 (pizza), 커피 (keopi), 차 (cha), 배 (bae), 무 ( mu)