For the first week of Korean class, I am very excited to work with a group of students who are friends with me as well. Last semester, I had a great experience of one-to-one class with Seonghye, so I became more excited to have a bigger study group. In first class, we reviewed some knowledge I learned last semester. Since four of the us were on different levels, we began with self-introduction. Take me as an example:
- 안녕하세요저는류한첸입니다.
Hello! My name is Liu Hanchen.
- 저는만20살입니다.
I am 20 years old.
- 제전공은 수학입니다.
My major is mathematics.
- 저는남동생 한명 있습니다.
I have one younger brother.
- 내생일은7 월29 일입니다.
My birthday is July 29th.
7. 나는 우상을 좋아하지 않는다
I do not have a favorite idol.
Then, Brenda asked us to do the introduction one by one and let us know more vocabulary from Amber, Yuting, and Nichole’s introductions. For example, Yuting has a little sister, and in Korean, we called younger sister여동생. It is similar to younger brother (남동생), with only the first character being different. Brenda showed another analogous example to help us remember the difference between “여”which means female and “남”which means male. Boyfriend is called “남자친구”and girlfriend is called“여자친구”.
When we discussed Korean drama, I mentioned a web series called 퐁당퐁당Love (Splash Love). It pronounced as “pu dang love”, but I accidentally pronounced as “pu dong love”. Brenda seemed confused and then she realized that I want to say 퐁당(pu dang) instead of 포동(pu dong) because what I said is a word means chubby.
For the second week, Brenda used Yongsei textbook and talked about the difference between 가and 는. However, since Seonghye and I mainly focused on this book last semester, it was not something new for me. Besides that, we spent the rest of the class learning vocabulary of different colors of the rainbow. There was an interesting phenomenon that the pronunciation of color in Korean is basically the same as the English pronunciation of this color. For example, red is 레드(lede), and pink is called 핑크(pinke). There is a more traditional way to say colors. Red is 빨강색; orange is 주항색; yellow is노랑색; green is 초록색; blue is 파랑색; purple is 보라색; black is 까만색. I was delighted with learning new Korean vocabularies because one of my goal this semester is remembering more daily vocabularies and try to use them when I talk with native Korean speakers.
To sum up, the first two-week class is helpful for me to pick up what I have learned with Seonghye after a long summer. The new stuff for me is attractive, which helps me step closer to my goal.
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