week7- 4/9
This week I began to learn the verb vocabulary such as "to go", " to eat", " to eat", " to read", " to meet" which are all in dictionary forms and if I want to apply them in a sentence, I must change the structure of it by deleting add 다 and addingㅂ니다 or 습니다 right after the verb. For example, when I want to use "to go", which is 가다 in the dictionary form, in a sentence, I must delete 다 which is a useless part in the phrase and add ㅂ니다 to combine into the correct form 갑니다. And similar to the use of object particles, this two affixes are used base on the character before it. "ㅂ니다" must be used after the word ending with vowels and "습니다" is used after the word ending with consonants.
Michael mentioned that the most useful sentence we should learned as a language learner is "What is this/that?". I eventually get the chance to learn this sentence! In Korean, "this thing" is 이것 and it mainly used when the object is close to the speaker; "that thing" 그것 and is used when the object is close to the listener; When it comes to an object are both far from the listener and the speaker, we can say "that thing" as 저것.
week8- 4/16
This is the last class before my Korean final exam. We learned a bunch of Korean vocabularies about the objects in classroom including blackboard, desk, book, chair, window and door. And Seonghye helped me review from the first lesson and she said she was really proud of my progress! I really appreciate that!
week9- 4/23
Final exam!!!!
Comments
Great post! It is cool to see how detailed your posts are and how you document exactly what you learned. I agree with Dr. Soloway, I think to learn how to say "What is this/that" is very important in learning a language. But I also think learning the grammatical structure behind a language is also very important so that the person listening to you can understand what you are trying to say.