Bi-weekly post #2

[Jenna Lee]

For the third meeting, we learned a few more metaphors/idioms and vocabularies. For the vocabularies, however, we learned words that have two different meanings within them. For example, we learned the word 천지, which meant sky and ground. These words are all based on the Chinese characters and sounds, which I thought were interesting. Then we watched a Korean weather forecast, and stopped after each sentence to review the vocab we learned the week before and understand what the forecaster was saying about the weather in South Korea. For the fourth meeting, we learned the geography of South Korea. This lesson was very interesting, since we never learned the geography of Korea before, and I never realized that Korea had quite a few provinces. There are 9 provinces, and they are Gyeonggi-do, Chungcheongbuk-do, Gangwon-do, Chungcheongnam-do, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Jeollabuk-do, Gyeongsangnam-do, Jeollanam-do, and Jeju-do. I learned that I used to live in Gyeonggi-do, which is where Seoul is located in.