I explain some of my ideas in the discussion.

Here is some notes from my notebook.

This week my learning goal is the following:

• Learn words about Korean clothing
• Learn words about Study a language.

The first learning goal is related to my trip. I love Korean fashion and want to buy lots of clothing there. The second goal is related to our class. I hope I can talked a little bit about what we did in 105 in Korean. Sounds fun.

The resource I am going to use is the following:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_s5QNUQD3o&list=PLAKEOhhoOenPwU5-UIZWWw1DIZWzlPdAm&index=22 (learning a language)
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=366nmg07QlA&list=PLAKEOhhoOenPwU5-UIZWWw1DIZWzlPdAm&index=6 (korean clothing)

I also download two Korean child book to read. Unfortunately, I can only recognize the words that I encountered before. And it took me too much time to understand it. The following are the books:

1. Bear Adventure
2. Counting Monkey

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Transcript see journal #12

During the final artifact, I learnt several sentences that I think might be useful for my trip.

• Long time no see.
• I do not know.
• Thank you!
• I understand.
• Sorry.
• Have a good journey!
• Welcome!

I learnt these sentence from: http://www.koreanclass101.com/2015/04/28/absolute-beginner-korean-for-every-day-1-top-25-korean-phrases/

This video did not teach me how to say it but also give a background about how Korean people used it everyday.

My goal for this week is to talk about weather and learnt some vocabulary about cooking. 

The resources I am going to use is the following:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLFtJ6iv75s&list=PLAKEOhhoOenPwU5-UIZWWw1DIZWzlPdAm&index=18 (for Cooking)
2. Dom and Hyo comic.

Actually I am a huge fan of cooking. I hope I can cook during my trip and learn to cook some Korean food in summer.

This week my goal is to meet my personal goal, which is for travel!

1. to be familiar with famous Koran attractions
2. to be familiar with korean make up products!
3. know some famous korean food! (which is different from last week!)

The resources that I am going to use is the following:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB1Giuh7gg8&index=38&list=PLAKEOhhoOenPwU5-UIZWWw1DIZWzlPdAm (Korean Tourist Attraction)
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RUtLqLqBxI&index=49&list=PLAKEOhhoOenPwU5-UIZWWw1DIZWzlPdAm (Famous Korean Food)
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAn4VSpm5bk (pony make up video)

I remembered the culture presentation on Korean skin products. I am so interested in korean make up, and actually i have a very long list of shopping list. Pony is my favorite make-up youtuber and I learnt a lot of make up words from her video!:)

This week my goal for this week are the following:

1. be able to talk about fruits.
2. to know some Korean food culture.
3. use the simplest way to order food.

The resources that I am going to use is the following:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uy6aPCK8bM&index=13&list=PLAKEOhhoOenPwU5-UIZWWw1DIZWzlPdAm (Vocabulary in food)
2. http://www.koreanclass101.com/2009/10/21/restaurant-1-ordering-and-getting-the-check/ (Order food and check)
3. http://www.koreanclass101.com/2015/11/24/absolute-beginner-korean-for-every-day-15-10-foods-that-will-kill-you-faster/ (Korean Food Culture)

Actually the dialog for order food and check is really simple! I really like it. I learnt it very soon and apply it in the restaurant immediately! :)

which means:

Also, the video is interesting and educational at the same time. It talks about 10 food that Koreans believe to be unhealthy

In this artifact I talked about family.

Conversation:

Do you have brothers or sisters?

Yes, I have one younger brother.

Where is he live?

He lives in Chicago.

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I found a very useful video online about talking on family topics. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy0Hk7zNouI

The Korean teacher introduced both family words and the grammar to me through the conversation. She repeated the conversations several time and talked in a very slow way, which helped me a lot.

My learning goal for this week is to be able to say 12 month and talking about time in Korean.

1. be able to ask what time is it now
2. be able to answer the question
3. talking about time span like one month, one day or one week
4. be able to speak each month

The following are the resources I am going to use

1. http://www.koreanclass101.com/2007/10/29/beginner-12-telling-time/
2. http://www.koreanclass101.com/2008/11/03/beginner-lesson-9-days-months-and-years-in-korean/#lc_transcript
3. dom and hyo comic for each month

I think the online courses are very helpful. The conversations are short so it does not upset me to much. I will encouraged by my little improvement every day. The comic is my favorite one. Not only it listed the word, but also tell me how each words are build so that I could find a pattern behind it which made me easy to memorize.

This week I want to expand my vocabulary in family topics. I will use the following resources:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkEV5CMabbY (Weekly Korean Words with Jae - Family)
   
2. Easy Korean Series vocabulary cards.

Both of the resources indicates that that the proper use of "older brother" and "sister" will depend on the gender of the younger siblings. If the younger sibling is a woman, she will call her older sister, "eon-ni". If the younger sibling is a man, he will call his older sister "nuna".

Also the younger family members should use formal languages when talking to the older generations.

"O-ppa" means "older brother" to a girl, which also means boyfriend. Sometimes I was confused how can people tell he is a brother or a boyfriend? Or what if the boyfriend is younger than the girl? is it weird to call him "Oppa"?

For my second artifact, I was not so satisfied with it as my first one. Because of lacking vocabulary, I can only answer two of the question that I recorded. One is what's my name. And the other is where I am from. Also as the sentence goes long it is hard to catch up with what did actually said in the video, I am really afraid of mislistening anything, so that I use 0.5 speed to listen to it. Overall, I feel like learning a language without a tutor and without any background is really hard especially as the process goes. Even my original learning plan looks very simple, I would still stick with it. I would improve my learning activities by adding into more conversations with my peers and Korean friends.

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For this week as the study goes I found that it became very hard to find free resources online with video and clear presentation. So I actually sign up for the Korean Class 101 online, for which has some videos in it.

I cannot find all the sentence with videos that I want to learn, so I will just selected the following questions about identity and family as my learning material.

From http://www.koreanclass101.com/2015/06/30/absolute-beginner-korean-for-every-day-7-top-15-questions-you-should-know/, I will learn the following:

• 생일이 언제예요? Saengiri eonjeyeyo? 
  When is your birthday?
• 어디에서 일해요? Eodieseo ilhaeyo? 
  Where do you work?
• 어디에 사십니까? Eodie sasimnikka? 
  Where do you live?
• 이름이 뭐예요? ireumi mwoyeyo?  
  What is your name?
• 몇 살이세요? Myeot sariseyo? 
  How old are you?
•  Eodieseo Wasseumnikka? – 어디에서 왔습니까? Where are you from?

I used my phone to record my words. The following youtube videos helped me a lot in doing it.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9_BmcUk_Xs (Introduction)
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAFRq1Zz-9A (Greetings)

The sentence I talked in my voice records:

• Annyeong. Yi ya Bangawo (Hi, I am Yi. Nice to meet you) [informal]
• Annyeonghaseyo Yi-eyo Bangawoyo (Hi, I am Yi. Nice to meet you) [formal]
• An-nyeong (Hi) [formal]
• Annyeong-haseyo (Hi) [formal]
• An-nyeonghi-gyeseyo (Bye) [when you go, formal]
• Jal isseo (Bye) [informal]
• Annyeonghi-gaseyo (Bye) [when you stay, formal]
• Jal ga (Bye) [informal]

Though I did not find a Korean friend to evaluate my work, I am very satisfied with my work, in terms of accent, cultural appropriateness and linguistic accuracy. I reached this standard by listening to the teaching video several time and repeated myself a lot.

For the goal I set last week, I fulfilled it with fun. Attached is a picture of Easy Korean. It is fun to say "That's awesome" and "It's the best". Such sentence is very useful in the school life.

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Translation and evaluation see the learning journal 5

My goal for week 4 and 5 is the following:

1. learn some Korean Culture, more specifically holiday culture.
2. learn some simple conversations during the holidays, like greetings.
3. learn some simple slang words in daily life.

My resource:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgqwLXpJ8yg (Christimas)
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T3L6Ufk2iI (Pepero Day)
3. Easy Korean Series 286

• The first video I found interesting, since it does not only talk about the Korean culture on Christmas but also teach me to learn some simple dialog in everyday life. Like "where are you heading to?" Also there are two ways to say "Christmas", the first one sounds like English and the second one sounds like Chinese, (Actually it means the same in Chinese as well.)
• The second video entertained me a lot. i never thought 11/11 is a festival for snacks. In China it is a holiday for singles. And single people go shopping crazy on that day.:)
• The last one I found is very useful in everyday like. Being able to say "you are cool." lol
  
  

Evaluation:

• It is hard to evaluate my achievement without a language partner. I will try to ask my Korean friends for her suggestions and will replay the artifact to myself. Though I cannot speak well, but I can hear the difference, hopefully.

Actually through the Hana Hana Hangul, I found a lot of other interesting Korean Language learning video on the Youtube. The series is called the "Weekly Korean words with Jae". The following are the two videos that I watched.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBZn7LunhM (About School Supplies)
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBZn7LunhM&index=5&list=PLAKEOhhoOenPwU5-UIZWWw1DIZWzlPdAm(About Study Subjects)

I am a huge fan of these video. Because he not only teaches the words very clearly but also explain how the words is composed. Like the word "notebook" is consist of "empty" and "book", an empty book for you to write. That's notebook. He also make use of the words in the sentence. Though it is hard for me to repeat what he say about the sentence but it really gave me a feeling about Korean conversations!

I did not try to learn a language through online resource before. I found that it is hard to follow the instructions and also I cannot concentrate on the language studying. But I will give it a try here. Indeed, there are lot of educational resources online about Korean language that I found interesting. There are two websites that interest me most. (Besides Mango, Byki and Diigo).

1. Youtube series "Hana Hana Hangul"
2. Pinterest

The first one is the Youtube series on teaching Hangul. The videos using simple steps, showing you the correct stroke order, helpful tricks for memorization, and proper usage in common Korean words. I think this is a perfect place for me to start.

The second website is Pinterest. I found this website when I search Korean vocabulary through Google. I saved most of the resources that interest me on it instead of Diigo. (I hope i can do it.) The reason why I like the Pinterest so much is that most of the korean vocabulary cards are with cute comics and are sorted into groups.

My Plan for this week:

1. watch the Hana hana series 1-2 videos
2. learn vocabulary from the Easy Korean series about greetings

Please see the 105&110 reflection

According to the Can-Do Statements, my current level of Korean is Novice Low, which means I can only communicate with very simple words and phrases that I had memorized and can only copy some words and characters. But I am not very ambitious about my study in Korean, since I only want to study it for my trip to Korean in summer. 

I want to start with a reachable plan and as the semester goes I can add more into it.

1. to master the Hangul, pronunciation and the writing.
2. be able to read the character and words according to Hangul
3. counting number from 1 to 10 and 20,30,40... to 100
4. be able to have some casual conversation such as asking for price/ direction or weather

My goal is to reach the novice mid especially in the speaking and listening aspects.:)

The reading reminded me of the other journal I had read before, Tribe Revives Language on Verge of Extinction. In the artical, author Kirk Johnson mentions that an oblivion to local languages paves the way for tribe language extinction. Specifically, he refers to people’s diminishing interest in less commonly spoken languages. Experts expect about 90 per cent of the world’s 7,000 languages to become extinct in the next 100 years. What will be lost if a language dies is the humanity coded in the language. The knowledge of human development the languages has witnessed is likely to come to an end. The diversity associated with a language is the richness of expression, the identities of our ancestors it embodies, and the roots of our community. Though I understand that it is hard to unify national identities between the past and the current, there is no excuse that reviving the less commonly spoken languages is a responsibility for people who are alive.