110 Learning Journal #11

[Jacob Park]

For this week, I plan to work on expanding my last week's task of being able to read Korean by reading news articles. I read several business news articles but found out that it was too dense and specialized for my level, so I tried to look for new, easier articles to work on. I found some articles that were around my level of comprehension. I understood about 70% of the article and attempted to Google translate the rest. This was only somewhat successful because of the poor accuracy of Google translate. However, it allowed me to use context clues to help me engage in learning new vocabulary along with learning how professionals use the Korean language. Business articles might not have been a good place to start because of its specialized language that I do not even know in English, but it is a field of interest for me and I believe it will be easier to understand something that I am actually interested in. Because of this, I will continue on trying to read more news articles and try to understand it with more ease. I believe that the more I read them, the more my vocabulary will increase, making the readings go easier each time.