These past two weeks, I transferred to two sessions per week with my language learning partner to cater more towards my language goals. We have gone over several things including three main types of the future tense, spacing between words, and vocabulary relating to school and travel. Additionally, we have continued to build off of the sentence structures, “I want to…” and “I have to…” by gradually adding more factors to complicate each phrase. For example, when I started off learning these structures, I could say “I want to dance” or “저는 춤 추고 싶어요”. Now, I can say “I want to meet with you at the gym on Saturday to dance” or “토요일에 체육관에서 만나서 춤 추고 싶어요”. To get to this point, I write up around 5 sentences between lessons every week using the material we covered in the previous session to review and practice the material. This gives me the opportunity to realize any points that I do not understand and helps me see where I would like to continue. This is a system that I enjoy using because it is easy to follow and effectively produces results. One of the best ways to learn a language, in my opinion, is to start with a small unit and use it as a building block to increase your abilities.
I have also been able to apply the grammatical concepts I have learned previously to writing sentences using the future tense. The main thing we are focusing on now is building up some vocabulary to expand the words I can use in these sentence structures.
In future lessons, I would like to focus some more on conversation skills. I think that I have built up enough knowledge at this point to start practicing putting those phrases into a casual conversation between friends. This is also a great opportunity to learn how to put the general sentence structures I have learned into questions. I hope to be able to use what I learn in real conversations with my language partner when we determine where to meet for lessons. I also have friends who speak Korean in my dance group with whom I can practice in real life.
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