bi weekly reflection #7

In this biweekly reflection I will write about 맞춤법 or Korean grammar.In order to keep with tradition, I now watch a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the title kang’s restaurant (강식당) season 2 myself on my own time to just make sure I am continuously watching something in Korean and having my brain constantly comprehend and make use of my Korean language skills. I am starting to move into watching more Korean shows and entertainment to just get more accustomed to Korean as well. In this lesson, we went over the six key rules that must be kept in mind for Korean grammar and common mistakes that arise from these rules. These 6 key rules are something that even Koreans in Korea struggle with, we learned because it happens to be that confusing. The 6 key rules to the best of translation in English were that first the smallest word that can stand alone with meaning gets a space in the sentence. Second, words that come after the noun have a space and stand alone in a sentence. Third, pronouns and words that modify a word/noun before also get a space in the sentence because they can stand alone. Fourth, the different ways to count people, objects, and animals all get a space between the number and word they modify. Fifth, words for a competition are always split and the same goes for when discussing other countries as well. Sixth, if a word describes the state of a subject there should be a space between the word and the subject because they can stand alone. I will write one example in Korean that follows these rules here and break it down in pieces. 야 나도 할 수있어! The meaning of this statement is Hey, I can do it too! There is a space after 야 because it is an interjection and also comes before a noun that it is directed towards. The next part 나도 means I also which has a space for 할 because that means “can” which has a space because it is a word that describes the state of a subject. 수있어 means “do it” and is split by the sixth rule about a word that describes the state of subject, which sounds confusing in English but in the context of Korean it is split because할  +  수있어/수없다 describes the state of the subject usually a person or noun. The second to last thing we went over in the lesson was a recent event which was polling and some results. We discussed how Korea had their first elections since coronavirus had taken the world by storm and the safety measures that Korea undertook to make sure that it was alright. We also learned some political vocabulary as well in the process. 국 회의선거: 전체 300 석 was one of the terms we identified and it meant for this election there are 300 seats up for election. And people went to vote for their 지역 구 국회의원 which translates to district representative as 지역 means district and the 국회의원 means representative. From the election we saw that 163 seats were voted in blue for the liberal party, 84 seats were for the red conservative party, one seat for the green party, and 5 seats with no party affiliation. In order to also ensure safety of their citizens, Korea allowed those that did not test positive for coronavirus to vote first during the day and also took tests at polling. After 5pm they then allowed those that had tested positive for coronavirus to visit polling locations and to vote and they were also retested at the polling locations. The final thing we went over was the ferryboat incident that happened 6 years ago on April 16th and is still a big moment that will not be forgotten for how big of a disaster and how bad of a situation it was. There were a massive loss of young lives in that accident and to this day a yellow ribbon is put up on social media and up in stores and websites to honor the lives of those that were lost on that day.This lesson was very long but I think it was a great lesson that taught me more about grammar and helped me to grow in my Korean learning. It was definitely harder and I still struggle a little with the grammar but I am continuously making corrections in order to keep growing in my usage of Korean correctly, which is positive and makes me happy to see in regards to my language development.

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