Bi-weekly post #1

[Jenna Lee]

For the first week of our class, we went over the basics of what we were going to cover for this semester. First, we decided what to learn, and we decided to learn slangs, proverbs, four word proverbs, watching Korean movies with/without subtitles, writing a paragraph on the movie in Korean, learning Korean history, and fixing commonly made mistakes. After planning, we learned a little bit of each topic to see how the classes were going to be. During the second week, we went over the list of slangs that Jimin prepared for us and that we’ll be tested on for the final. She emphasized that slangs are important in the modern Korean society because slangs are used to communicate within the younger generation, and it’s so different from standard Korean. She helped us go through the entire list of commonly used slangs, and we applied them by making up a sentence and conversation with those slangs. A lot of the slangs were abbreviations, so it was easier to figure out. For example, Starbucks in Korean slang would be 스벅, which is ‘su-buck’ when sounded out. For homework, she assigned us to memorize all of the slangs and their definitions.