During these two weeks, I was switched between Minkyung and Joora for my language partners. With Minkyung, we learned about a topic that deals with service and customers. I learned that in Korea, service is taken very seriously and that Korea has one of the best customer service in the world. Because of this, many issues can arise, such as customers taking advantage of the workers. We learned about an incident that happened in an airplane that was headed back to Korea from Vietnam. A man that was intoxicated on an airplane was making a scene and causing chaos in the airplane. We learned various Korean words to describe the situation. We also went over the situation in the form of a news article. In this news article, we identified words that we were not familiar with and Minkyung went over it with us.
For the second week, my language partner was switched to Joora. We learned about trendy vocabulary that is used often in Korea, such as "numsabyeok" which means someone who is too perfect at something. We learned various texting lingo and other commonly used phrases that are trending in Korea. The next meeting, we learned about the Korean alphabet along with the consonants and vowels of the language. Although this was review, it was good to start off with the basics again.
These were very effective for me to start the semester off. I will continue to expand on these topics by learning more about not only the trendy vocabulary, but also other specialized vocabulary that was taught to me by Minkyung and Joora. These class sessions were helpful in getting my mind back in Korean and to get me started efficiently.
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