To make a learning plan, I would like to start with where I am in the learning process. I haven’t officially learned much Korean, although I did have immersions in Korean in terms of K-pop and gaming. I would still consider myself a novice in learning Korean.
Next up is my goal for learning Korean. I follow a few K-pop groups. In addition, I’m watching professional Overwatch League games. Overwatch is a first-person game that is contested in 6 v 6. A lot of professional game players are from Korea, so are some of my favorite overwatch players. So when I watch their interview videos or their stream on Twitch, it’s hard for me to understand them. Even though during the interviews sometimes there are translators, but I think they don’t fully translate what the player means.
By the end of this semester, my intention is to understand basic daily conversations and what the players talk about when they stream. Since I also follow k-pop groups, I want to be able to understand the lyrics of the songs.
I do want to start learning the basics of Korean. And I want to focus on speaking and listening than reading and writing because I think the first two skills are more useful to me right now. Some basic tasks include: greetings / farewells, self-introduction(my name, where I am from, the major I am studying, a fun fact about myself), asking about basic information from other people, numbers, ask/tell time and date.
Jargon related to games and k-pop definitely is also a part of what I want to learn. But I think it’s more of a later thing to do. So in the next two weeks, I want to learn some basic vocabulary and daily conversation, also the Korean alphabet.
Some activities I can do later in the semester could be singing a Korean song or translate a short interview video of a korean overwatch player. I’m also planning to set the language in my overwatch gaming menu to be Korean so that I can learn the gaming Jargon sooner.
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I think your goals are very achievable as long as you continue to listen to K-pop and other shows that are in Korean. I was able to relate to your interest in Overwatch because some of my friends watch the live streams of professional gamers. Thanks for sharing!