Post your first bi-weekly report on your language-learning activities
In the first two weeks of Korean, I learned vocabulary words for various personality traits and how to use them in a sentence when describing my "ideal type". I thought this activity was very fun because it not only required me to learn the vocab words, but it also challenged me to use those new words when describing people.
In one activity, we went around the room describing some people in our lives and what personality trait we associate with them. For me, I shared that my sister is extroverted (활발한), my mom as optimistic (낙천적인), and myself as creative (창의적인). We also learned that, based on the way we say the characteristic, the conjugation at the end changes. For example:
When I say that my sister is extroverted, there are two ways of saying the sentence:
1. Joy is extroverted (조이는 활발해요)
2. Joy is an extroverted person (조이는 활발한 사람이에요)
The adjective could either be accompanied with 해 if it ends in 한, or it could be accompanied with 인 if it ends in 이.
I found that it was difficult for me to go from this step to describing my ideal type. It was challenging to keep up with these changes, but also having to then form sentences was a struggle. However, I enjoyed learning about how to use many of the vocab words. It was a good problem to have.
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