Bi-Weekly Learning Journal #4

[Sarah Kwon]

For the last two weeks we started learning about colloquial language that is used in Korea. There is actually a lot of Korean slang used by people and I have seen people use it in conversation or when I watch a Korean drama. Koreans love to short words and mash it up with other words. Therefore, I knew some of the expressions we learned but I did not know what the actual full expression words were. During class, there were a lot of variety shows that we watched to pick up on the slang terms. I learned that a lot of the older people (starting from mid 20s) also did not know all of the slang words. Like in the America, new slang words are also made by primarily middle and high school students.