Discussion Post #7
David Kim
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david.kim123@richmond.edu
Overall, I learned much more about my target language and culture than I expected. My language learning process is slightly different from how I planned, but I could see some progress. As I mentioned in my learning plan, I wanted to study Korean literature, especially poems. For several reasons, I chose Yun Dong-ju’s poems. First of all, he is one of the famous Korean poets that represent Korea. Also, I thought it would be more meaningful if I could read poems that were written during the Japanese Colonial Era. I was hoping to not only learn more about the Korean language itself but also about one of the significant Korean historical periods. Discussion about the phonetic inventory was interesting to me. I always thought about how I translate words, phrases, or sentences into English or Korean. I realized that I do not really think about how their pronunciation or phonetic inventory was different. As I wrote in “Discussion Post #5” about communicative competence, sociolinguistic competence is the most emphasized one in my plan. Since I already know a lot of other factors of communicative competence in Korean, I thought it would be great to improve in the most complicated aspect. I hope to experience and show improvements in learning my target language and understanding my target culture.
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