For the past two weeks, we continued to learn through the workbooks that Youngmin had provided our class. We have been expanding on grammatical rules. We have been practicing through workbook problems that includes speaking, writing, and reading. Youngmin always provides other supplemental activities to do that correlate with what we are doing for the lesson. We also went over Korean proverbs on top of the grammatical lessons. We learned to interpret what the sayings meant from the literal definitions. We were then assigned to give a presentation on three proverbs that were similar in topic and had to provide the meaning and give examples of the proverbs being used in the right context. We have been working steadily on improving our writing, reading, and speaking skills with a lot fo practice every class and I could slowly see myself becoming more comfortable with my Korean skills. I definitely still need to improve my writing skills because that is my weakest point in those three categories. We had an assignment where we had to provide a summary of a movie that we watched and explain what we liked about it and what resonated with us after it finished. The teacher couldn't even understand what I was trying to say, so I know that this is an area that I really need to work on.
The first artifact was a few sentences I made to describe a story about how Korean culture interprets dreams. I thought I did well on creating clear sentences using the correct grammar to get my points across. I still need to work on perfecting my accent to make it sound less Americanized. I also feel that there are better ways to explain the story, so I need to work on widening my vocabulary and grammatical skills. I hope to accomplish this through more practice in and out of class with the assignments made by Youngmin.
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