The past week, Jenna and I did some more Korean writing practice. She sent me a google drive doc with some phrases and common sentence endings I can practice with. The practice was focused on present progressives and past tense terms in Korean. She provided a general formula for spelling in Korean and then presented me with some examples of these spellings in common phrases. The present progressive is parallel to the -ing endings in English verbs such as “I am swimming.” I have always gotten the spelling wrong to the endings of Korean sentences using present progressives. Similarly, the past progressives have a very similar spelling formula technique as the present progressives. This involves a lot of bachims that Jenna and I went over a couple of weeks back. After learning and reading about the different progressives in Korean, Jenna asked to write a couple of example phrases down in Korean on my iPad. I wrote down what she said and then we went over the progressive phrases that I wrote for the correct spelling and bachims. After that, Jenna told me to watch a movie or video for next week and write a quick and short summary of it in Korean. She said to use some examples of present and past progressives when writing my summary of the video
The week after, I came back with a summary of a YouTube video I watched online about the importance of planting trees. I used a couple of past and present progressive phrases in Korean and Jenna was really impressed. I was able to apply my new knowledge on present and past progressive spelling to improve my Korean writing dramatically! The past mistakes I have made the past weeks have always involved these progressive phrases. I will continue to focus on these progressive phrases spelling to reduce the mistakes I make when spelling. The two vowels that sound the same I talked about in the last biweekly learning journal continues to trip me up a lot on my summaries. There are so many words with that vowel and I always am confused about which version to use for which word or phrase. I think that essentially comes down to practice and repetition. I will continue to read new articles in Korean and write summaries or letters to work on my writing and reading. As we progress through this semester, I am confident in my ability to improve in Korean for the duration of this semester and I think I am on pace to passing the Korean test right before the Spring semester begins. For next week, Jenna told me to start thinking about my presentation for my cultural project as well as continue watching a video and writing a summary on it in Korean. I have to get good at not rushing too fast when spelling in Korean and take my time pronouncing the words in my head before writing it. I always tend to make mistakes when I am rushing and not thinking about my spelling.
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Hi Jiwon, I like your commitment to slowing down and taking your time. I find that I often try to speak too fast and then end up making even more mistakes. Keep up the good work - I hope you find some more interesting videos about planting trees and other topics:)