Journal Entry 1

These past weeks, David and I have been watching a kdrama to revisit one of my learning goals from last semester. That is, to expand my vocabulary. I feel like I’ve learned a lot last semester with my previous language partner, Joseph, but I still wanted to learn more. We went over some new vocabulary words and phrases that we've heard while watching the kdrama. I feel like I need to learn more advanced terms and also words I just didn't know. I've never really talked about cooking in Korean, so when I heard the words for onions, cabbages, and carrots I was so shocked to realize that I didn't know such simple words. Therefore, I thought it would be a good idea to continue looking out for new words that I didn't know and going over them together with David. I think from one episode, I was able to learn 12 new words on average! I was able to appreciate how wide the world of the Korean language is. I think that knowing a lot of words and knowing how to say something in multiple different ways is a skill every second-language speaker should possess in order to be a successful speaker in that language. I’m looking forward to keep on learning at least one new word every time I meet with David.