Bi-weekly post #1

[Jenna Lee]

For the first meeting of our Korean Lesson, we planned on what we were going to study this semester. We decided that for our second meeting, we would learn about metaphors/idioms along with new vocabularies, which were used daily in Korean conversations. The metaphors/idioms were phrases that aren’t taken literally to its written words. An example is 입이 무겁다, which means one’s mouth is heavy. But the implied meaning is that a person with a heavy mouth keeps secrets very well and won’t tell others. One of the new vocabulary words that we learned was 인도, which had three different meanings. The meanings could be either the country of India, sidewalk, or to lead, and one would decide which meaning it would be based on the context of the rest of the sentence. We also learned about a few weather-related words, such as 한파, which means extremely cold weather.