105 Learning Journal #10

[Esther Kwon]

Reading and especially writing has always been a challenge for me since those were skills I failed to continue to practice as I got older. However, I believe my reading and writing skills have improved by a little mainly from reading and writing messages to friends on the app HelloTalk. Though text messaging included lots of jargon and shortening of words and sentences, it really helped me practice my comprehension skills as well, since I had to practice translating Korean from reading messages in Korean into English. My writing skills were also utilized since I had to practice constructing my own words which was extremely challenging for me since I still find it difficult when to use certain grammatical structures or even how to properly structure a sentence so that I can clearly convey what I want to say. Though I do not think I improved a significant amount in reading and writing, I can see I have improved because I am now able to communicate with my parents better since I am more capable of texting to them in just Korean which I now do more often.