During these two weeks, I have learned about poetry in Korea, as well as counting words. Poetry is very apparent around the world and exists in every language. Joora helped us to read these poems and understand the motive behind them, as well as the meaning. This was a complex topic since poetry is highly artistic and is not very straightforward. Korean poetry was very difficult for me to understand because of the higher level of intricate vocabulary used and its different syntax. However, Joora made it a little clearer for me, but the meaning was still unclear.
In Korean, there are different ways to count different things. For example, trees are counted with "구루" while books are counted as "권". There are many different intricacies when it comes to these counting words and most of the times they do not make sense. There is a different word to count the packs of cigarettes, and different words to count the individual cigarette. There are also separate counting words for sheets of paper and even how many people. Joora gave us a comprehensive list of commonly used counting words for different things and gave us a test on it. Like the past lessons, these tests helped to give incentives on actually studying and reviewing these words. This gave us an idea of my progress in this language.
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