This semester was interesting in terms of my Korean language learning. I learned many things about Korean and the culture as well. I came into this class thinking that I will greatly increase my fluency in Korean, but I ended up just learning a tremendous amount of Korean pop culture along with traditional culture. I did end up achieving my main goal of being able to have a texting conversation with my mother. This was due to the constant drilling that was provided by Minkyung. Through these drills, it taught me proper Korean grammar, along with some colloquialism that is commonly used in Korea. My vocabulary of Korean also increased, but it was not a significant amount. I did, however, learn a tremendous amount of Korean business terms through the business articles that I read. Although I can not understand the articles fully, I can somewhat understand the gist of the article. This is due to my constant exposure of the Korean language.
I did have difficulties in writing. Since Korean has different consonants that sound the same but are used differently, I frequently confused the two. However, with the help of my phone's autocorrect, I was making less errors. Overall, looking back at the semester, I realized that I learned a lot of Korean without even realizing it. Being able to talk to my parents and shoot them a quick text message is a skill that I learned from this class.
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