Bi-weekly language journal

[Felicitas G. Heinzel]

We are currently working on becoming more comfortable with building sentences, utilizing the right grammatical rules, and expanding our vocabulary. We have learned how to ask questions, answer accordingly, and use sentence structures utilizing particles. In combination with learning these important structural aspects of Hangul, we have learned ten new verbs and ten new nouns. Since the sentences are getting more complex and the words are getting harder to understand and say, I asked Seonghye to send me recordings of them. This helps me to have more repetition and to be exposed to Korean more. I also added a Korean keyboard on my phone, so now I try to write different words to practice whenever I am having some downtime or when waiting for someone. These two new tools have helped me to get more used to reading, writing, speaking, and listening to Korean and they have been very effective in improving my progress and helping me learn. I am planning on attempting to read a children’s book in Hangul over spring break and to eventually move to books about traveling Korea, because that is what I am most interested in.