Post your third bi-weekly report on your language-learning activities
This week, my language partner and I watched an episode of 비정상회담 (bee jung sang hweh dahm). It is a show where TV personalities and guest stars debate about topics about Korean culture from the perspectives of non-Koreans. The episode I watched was about how the Korean language was perceived by people from other countries. The episode had many people of different nationalities, who spoke Korean all share about their experiences with learning Korean versus their own language. To be honest, it was a bit difficult to understand due to the high vocabulary of the complex topic. However, I challenged myself to at least understand the main idea of what was going on. I found that after a while, I began to get better at understanding what was going on.
I also have begun to learn about object particles in Korean. The object particles are 을 [eul] & 를 [reul]. How I have come to understand it is that it comes after the noun, connecting to the verb. An English example of this would be something like “the dog gave the toy to me.” In Korean, the object particle would be placed between the dog and gave, connecting the noun and verb. There are two object particles, one for if the word before has a vowel or a consonant. If it is a vowel, we use 를. If it is a consonant, we use 을.
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