In this week’s korean lesson, we watched a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the title kang’s restaurant (강식당) season 2. We started off with this article in order to get some context for words we are going to learn and use in normal everyday conversations. We then went on to learn a list of slang words and some slang in Korean that is used by teenagers these days to get more “hip” to the Korean culture nowadays. In fact, this culture is so ingratiated in Korea it was a good way to learn and get right into the way of texting that is so common nowadays. The words we learned in korean slang were 엄빠, 맥날, 최맥, 삼쏘, 스빅, 개이득, 핵누잼, 핵꿀잼, 아아, 얼죽어, 얼죽코, 존맛탱, 1도없다, 댕댕이, 갑분사, 사바사, 인싸, 아싸, 괄도넴넴띤, 별다줄, 급식체, ㄱㄱ, ㄴㄴ, ㄱㅅ, ㄱㄷ, ㅅㄱ, ㅇㅈ. Respectively, all these words/characters in order mean mom&dad, mcdonald’s, chicken and beer, korean barbecue and soju, starbuck’s, very beneficial to you in a situation by chance, very boring/no fun, very fun/interesting, iced americano, even if i freeze to death i want iced americano, even if i freeze to death i will wear just a coat, very tasty (JMT), does not know anything, puppy, brings the mood down suddenly, depends person by person, person in the group, person out of the group, palto mixed noodles, to shorten everything, the language of korean students, go go, no no, thanks, wait, good job, and to be accepted or received the approval of. I wrote all of these down in my journal and I plan on taking notes again to further cement these words into my brain and use them in text in the future so I do not forget and can use them regularly. I feel encouraged to be learning these slangs and having been able to make sense of a quarter of them from hearing them or reading about them in the past or even seeing them on tv shows that I have watched before in the past. My newest strategy to ingrain them is rewriting them and then saying them out loud with the clearest enunciation possible so that I can say the words correctly and sound like I am from Korea instead of learning Korean as an American. I want to increase my fluency as best as possible while growing my current skills. We also read an article in Korean about the Korona virus and I was able to get the gist of it and read it, but I think I need to do more to get on track. In order to do this, I will check a book out from the link Dr. Marsh-Soloway sent me from the Global Studio, for intermediate Korean reading and with that book I will increase not only the speed that I read Korean, but also my pronunciation/enunciation and understanding of Korean in a different context. I am so excited to do this and will look for an intermediate book, which I have already put in my learning plan. I acknowledge that I must first do this if I would like to read some more advanced books like the Korean history which I also plan on doing to improve my Korean to the best of my ability as quickly as possible to be able to take the TOPIK exam one day.
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