110 Learning Journal 4

[Are Oelsner - 아리]

• Document (a) your goals and tasks for weeks 4 and 5, (b) the resources and activities you will use to achieve your goals, and (c) how you will evaluate your success.
  

By the end of week 5 I would like to be able to improve my Korean reading skills to the point that I can sound out most characters and read and understand a page about basic introductions and farewells. I think that having a good foundation of reading Korean will be very helpful for developing my other skills as it will allow me to use websites, understand instructions, and sound out unfamiliar words. With the ability to read and sound out characters I'll be able to look up unfamiliar words and use dictionary tools.

A secondary goal is working on my pronunciation. By the end of week five I would like to be able to have the introduction conversation we had in my first language session from memory, and to have better pronunciation. In order to achieve this goal I will practice having the conversation with my girlfriend and have her correct my pronunciation whenever I mess up.

By the end of week five I should be able to sound out most characters and to both read and speak about introductions and farewells, with proper pronunciation.