April 25
As of now, I've come really far in my spelling and speaking less awkwardly and using less incorrect phrases/words. I still find writing my diary entries everyday and not forgetting really hard, but I try make up for it and do my best to catch up. I still haven't memorized my keystrokes just yet, but I'm hoping with more practice, I will. Even typing in English is sometimes difficult and I don't think I fully memorized that one just yet either and still have to take a glance down occasionally! But I have become way better at reading, as I practice reading with subtitles on and I try to keep up with the speed that the people speak (reading pace) and it is difficult and sometimes I have to rewind back, but I hope that with more practice, my reading will improve as well as my spelling, through reading a lot. I have noticed in my younger years that I learn a lot of vocabulary and spelling through reading and just by context and exposure to different vocabulary. So I hope that by exposing myself to more words and more Korean writing and speaking, I will absorb what I get exposed to. So I've been listening to a lot of Korean youtubers as well as reading blurbs and blogs and posts by Koreans as well as putting Korean video subtitles when I do watch the youtube videos. I also want to start reading manga in Korean and Korea has a big webtoon and manga culture so I hope to expose myself to even harder vocabulary than just the colloquial Korean that I listen and read to everyday. Certain words are hard to come by just small blogs and posts and everyday speech so I hope that by reading a variety of manga (with images for context to help clue me in on what the characters are talking about) of different genres I will be able to read actual books and expand my lexicon and will get a feel for how written Korean is supposed to look like. Currently, I've been told that I write like I speak, which is really informal, full of slang and written almost like texting a friend through social media or the phone, which is not how Korean is usually written on pen and paper. So in order to write a bit more formally and "correctly", I would like to see different sentence structures and how the "demeanor" is when writing and POV when writing as well. I would like to expand my vocabulary for sure and I would like to understand the standard writing style in Korean. My study session group still watches a show or two every week with reflections due by the next session and we also had a couple of cultural learning sessions that I really appreciated. We went over Korea's independence day and the meaning and how it came to be (a introduction/crash course of it) and the meaning and overview of South Korea's national anthem and the different verses and the culture and historical context of the song. I forgot to mention in the third blog post that we went over idioms and the meaning of the words specifically first, then the contextual meaning of the entire idiom as a whole and then how it came about and how it's used in modern times versus the origins and I thought that was really interesting and I could see the historical value and how that idiom came to be and how it applied to people of Korea back then and how it still has context to us now.
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