March 29 Biweekly Learning Journal
This past week, Jenna and I went over my cultural presentation topic. I decided on presenting it on traditional Korean food. I will have a general idea of the topics to choose and what part of Korean food to dive into next week. Furthermore, Jenna and I looked over an example article with some questions in Korean. The article was about the BTS music band in Korean KPOP. The article talked about the rise of BTS and how they have become so popular internationally. The questions on the article were pretty easy to understand and find the answers to, but it was definitely a lot harder to write down the correct answer with correct spelling and grammar. The questions were stuff like, “how much money did they make on their debut album” or “what is the name of their first song called.” The questions were easy for me to differentiate and understand through context clues. I think this practice article and questions were really helpful for me to get better in Korean writing and reading comprehension. I asked Jenna to print me one or two more for this week. So, this week, Jenna brought two more articles with some questions attached to it. I worked on it during class and finished it after. We went over my answers and spelling, correcting any mistakes that I made. Another thing that we did during this week’s class was a spelling practice exercise. Jenna wrote five to six phrases in Korean and I had to identify the mistakes in each phrase. I was able to get most of the mistakes but there were a few that I thought were wrong that was right. I definitely have to get better at not second-guessing correct spelling and grammar. I hope to continue to improve on my grammar and spelling in Korean writing through the last few weeks of the semester.
For my long-term goal in this class, I still hope to take the Korean placement test after next fall and hopefully pass the proficiency test. I think my strengths include listening and speaking in Korean, but my weaknesses are writing and reading comprehension. Compared to the beginning of this year, I definitely have gotten a lot better at reading and writing. My speaking and listening are at the same level of proficiency, but I think I have been able to clearly communicate in Korean with more diverse vocabulary as well as pronunciation of phrases correctly. For writing in Korean, I have definitely been able to be more accurate when writing in Korean as well as writing quicker than when I started learning Korean last year. I remember I couldn’t even write a full sentence correctly and quickly last year, but now I can confidently write anything in Korean without horribly mistaking some of the spelling in Korean. For next week, I will be starting to research on my cultural presentation on Korean food culture and find exactly what type of topics to research and present.
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