For one of the weeks, we were assigned to create the cultural project presentation. Youngmin gave a book filled with different cultural aspects of Korea and the topic of Tae Kwon Do piqued my interest. I decided to do my presentation on Tae Kwon Do out of nostalgia and my own curiosity. When I was younger, I used to practice Tae Kwon Do and really enjoyed my time learning the martial arts, so I wanted to go more in depth in how it came to be what it is today. The following class, Youngmin gave each of the students notecards so that we can provide feedback for everyone's cultural project. After I gave my presentation on Tae Kwon Do, Younngmin asked me some questions to follow up on some of the information I gave and provided me feedback to improve my project.
For the second week, we have been reviewing everything we learned so far using the workbook and textbook. She also explained to us the format of the exam, so that we can come prepared. I noticed that I had forgotten some of the important lessons, so I'm thankful that we have been going over everything we learned or else I would be terribly unprepared during the assessment.
Comments
Tae-Kwon-Do seems like an awesome thing to do a cultural presentation on. It is good to see that you have really immersed yourself into Korean culture and revisiting an activity that you did when you were younger. I think that being able to find something personal in connection to the culture really helps an individual to become more engaged in their target language. For me, my roommate speaks my current target language and I want to be able to speak with him in Indonesian.
Good luck Jeffery! Hope you can pick up some cool moves all while expanding your Korean lexicon!