These two weeks of spring break have thrown my SDLC plans (and the entire world) off! This was a wildly hectic time as we all left for spring break and then Coronavirus changed everything. Due to this, I was unable to meet with Jannette during this time as we were all trying to figure out our future plans. I tried to do my best to keep up with Korean even with everything else going on. Taking time to learn some Korean was actually a really nice activity for me to do to take my mind off of everything going on. I did do a bit of review looking at the past grammar we learned and Hangul. Since I did not meet with Jannette during this period I relied on the internet!
I was having a bit of trouble with my pronunciation so I thought I would try and understand the phonetics of Korean like we had done in class for GAE. I watched a very informative video on youtube (linked here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVqJbiSLw-E&t=511s). The video walked me through examples and helped familiarize me with the sounds of Korean. I found this helpful since we had covered phonetics in class. I practiced making these sounds for a little bit and hope to clean up my pronunciation throughout the rest of the semester.
After watching that video I found a very useful channel by Talk To Me In Korean on Youtube (find their channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5r3WHrX4Z7peSYpDlgktGw).
I chose this channel because it is actually the same company that made the textbook that Jannette used in the previous weeks to teach us. I really liked the set up of that textbook so I decided to watch their video called “Learn 20 Essential Korean Phrases For Beginners.” This video was a great review and also new for me too. Most of the phrases in the video were presented in formal and informal but it was cool to see since most of the formal versions just added “yo” to the end of the statement as we have previously learned. One really cool thing I saw in the video and that Jannette taught us in the previous week were the two ways to say goodbye in Korean.
Interestingly, the way you say goodbye changes based on whether you are the one leaving or staying. Jannette explained this previously because when you say 안녕히 (annyeonghi) the “hi” (히) is added to the typical annyeong which can also be used as a greeting and turns it into an adverb which essentially means peacefully. Then you can either say “go in peace” or “stay in peace.” If the other person is leaving you can say goodbye with 안녕히 가세요 (annyeonghi gaseyo). This is a nice way to tell someone to go peacefully. However, if you are the one leaving you would instead say 안녕히 계세요 (annyeonghi gyeseyo). This basically translates to “stay peacefully.” I thought this difference was pretty interesting since I’ve never heard of different ways to say goodbye based on who is leaving in any other language. From the video I also learned how to say “I’m hungry” (배고파 - baegopa) which is very relevant to me…
Pri also showed me a really cool resource on youtube called Korean Unnie. I hope to watch more of her videos later on since there are so many fun ones to watch. I also like her channel since she also has videos on Korean culture too. One thing I want to learn next and work on with Jannette is how to conjugate in Korean. I know that some of the words and phrases we’ve learned are conjugated already but I would like to know how to actually conjugate. I’m certainly looking forward to more Korean in the upcoming weeks!
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