Journal Entry 2
This past weekend, I went up to northern Virginia with my language partner. As I showed David around my hometown, I spoke to him in Korean. Whenever there was a location or object that I didn’t know the word for, David would teach me the word and I would retry describing what I wanted to show him. Doing this all day helped me so much with learning and remembering new words David taught me. As we have been going over learning advanced words in Korean, I would say that this was an innovative way of learning. Additionally, David and I had a karaoke night on campus this past Monday where I would read and sing Korean words. As reading isn’t one of my strong suits, this was a fun way to work on it especially when singing or rapping lyrics fast. If I didn’t know what a certain line of lyrics were saying, David would go over those lines with me so that I could understand it. Doing this for a couple hours was a great time as well as a learning experience for me since it was my first time ever doing karaoke.
This past weekend, I went up to northern Virginia with my language partner. As I showed David around my hometown, I spoke to him in Korean. Whenever there was a location or object that I didn’t know the word for, David would teach me the word and I would retry describing what I wanted to show him. Doing this all day helped me so much with learning and remembering new words David taught me. As we have been going over learning advanced words in Korean, I would say that this was an innovative way of learning. Additionally, David and I had a karaoke night on campus this past Monday where I would read and sing Korean words. As reading isn’t one of my strong suits, this was a fun way to work on it especially when singing or rapping lyrics fast. If I didn’t know what a certain line of lyrics were saying, David would go over those lines with me so that I could understand it. Doing this for a couple hours was a great time as well as a learning experience for me since it was my first time ever doing karaoke.
Comments
Northern Virginia is a great place to experience Korean-American culture since the Korean population is so big! I wish I could go more often to eat Korean food. I've also been learning more advanced vocabulary with my language partner and I'm finding it difficult to retain all the information. I guess practicing them often is the key to continue improving!
This sounds like a great way to learn new words and it is convenient, unfortunately, I live too far away to do this with Jason but maybe I could go to Shortpump and point things out to gain more vocabulary. The Karaoke night sounds very fun and effective too I'm glad to hear it helped you with your reading skills and pushed you.