110 Learning Journal #13

[Stephen Huffnagle]

For week 13, my goal was to learn sports vocabulary. Because sports are such a great conversational starter in the US, I thought that it was important for me to talk about sports on a basic level in Korean. I learned basic sports vocabulary, as well as some sports phrases. For instance, baseball is "yagu", soccer is "chukgu", and basketball is "nongu". There are also some cognates, like beach volleyball being "bichiballi", and tennis being "tenis". On top of these words, I learned some phrases like "to play a sport" (un-dong hagi) and "to play volleyball" (baeguhagi). This can be extended to any sport, such as say nonguhagi for playing basketball and yaguhagi for playing baseball. You can also ask someone if they play a sport by saying "_____ chiseyo?", like "nongu chiseyo?"