We have reached the fifth biweekly journal and once again I will take time to reflect upon how my language learning journey has been like over the course of the past two weeks. I met with Vivian, my language learning partner, over zoom and we talked about potential activities we could do for the rest of the semester. One suggestion she had was to watch a Korean drama that had been praised and was very popular in Korea. This drama was called When the Camellia Blooms. I have seen this drama pop up while I would scroll around netflix, but I never had the opportunity or interest to watch this drama. However, Vivian and I agreed to watch the first episode and talk about it during our next meeting.
Concerning my challenges I have set for myself, I found these past two weeks to be unfruitful. I have been overwhelmed with a lot of work regarding not only dental school, but just school in general. As a result, I have not been able to go out of my way to put as much effort as I would like into my Korean learning experience. I find that this is one of the problems with this course, or not a problem but a mild inconvenience. As much as I would like to go above and beyond to improve my Korean learning experience, I find that when I get busy with other course loads, I begin to reduce the attention I would normally give for this class and only do the bare minimum, which is something I would not like to do. Unfortunately, over the three semesters of taking this course, I knew this was bound to happen. However, I also know that this only occurs when school becomes busy, but once it begins to settle down again I am able to put more effort into my learning. Therefore, I hope that these upcoming two weeks will fair better and I will be able to put more attention into my Korean learning.
In addition, I continued to speak Korean to my family, but also I was able to complete my challenge of texting my parents in Korean. Though I was very slow initially, I have started to figure out where the characters are on my screen, and I have become better at typing in Korean. I believe that this is a very effective way to practice not only writing but reading Hangul. I say this because in order to type accurately, I have to put a lot of focus in what I am typing and have to read it back to myself to ensure that what I typed was what I was trying to say. As a result, I plan to continue doing this activity. Looking forward to the next two weeks, I have set for myself a couple of challenges/tasks to do. I will continue to speak only Korean at home, I will text my parents in Korean, and I will try to watch the first episode of the Korean drama I said I would watch.
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