I rewatched my learning plan on PanOpto and I think I am doing pretty well on my learning plan. I talk about how I want to preserve my Korean language. I talk about how I aim to learn how to read and write in Korean. I furthermore talk about how I will use radio garden to listen to different Korean broadcasts to increase my listening skills. I also talked about how I want to learn Korean grammar. I haven't really gotten into that as much as I wanted to so far into the semester. I have done a lot of writing practice and reading, but not too much about grammar. I also talk about listening to music in Korean and watching Korean TV shows. I have been doing this successfully through YouTube. I have incorporated materials from class like radio garden, voice notebook, and Jenna my student teacher. I think learning about language structures and learning strategies has helped me understand how to learn a language efficiently. Learning the history of languages and how they have influenced other languages, and how cultures influence the changing of language. All of these discussion posts in the past few weeks have really helped me prepare myself in learning a new language and understand the culture from a different perspective.
The relationship between language and culture is very important to understand when learning a new language. From what I have learned so far in this class, language and culture go hand in hand with each other. Language deeply influences culture and culture deeply influences language. Languages can change over time due to many different factors, but the changing of culture is the biggest influence in languages changing. We learned about the different cultures and how some countries aim to preserve their language by preserving their culture. On the other hand, countries like America have become more diverse in culture, so the language has changed over time, where some dialects and languages have become extinct or altered. To improve my communicative competence while learning Korean, I will continue reading, discussing, and thinking about the relationship between language and culture, and the importance of understanding the morphology and structure of language. I think strategic competence is most related to my learning plan based on H.D. Brown's reading. My learning plan focuses on the verbal and nonverbal forms of Korean (reading, writing, and listening), more than the history of sociolinguistic components.
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