110: Learning Journal #10

[Jessica Kim]

This week, I decided to see my ability to converse with people other than my parents. I decided to facetime my younger sister who is said to be a native speaker. She went to Korea this past summer and all of my relatives has told my mom that she excelled with her Korean. This may be due to her watching a lot of Korean television shows/documentaries and memorizing/understanding words that she does not understand. She also went to Korean school when she was younger and I did not. I facetimed her and we talked about what she was doing in school and I explained to her what I was doing in research. It was a different topic conversation with my parents and she told me how to say some words that I did not know in Korean. For example, I did not know what the terms biology, cells, doubled, etc. were and she knew. I was able to learn more words through our facetime.