Journal #1 - 110

[Abigail Sohkhlet]

My goal of this course is to be able to write a letter to my friend in Korea describing my college experience in the US and asking her about her life in Korea by the end of this semester. Since I am a beginner in Korean, I plan to learn the alphabet first and hopefully this will be done quickly so I can move on to other tasks. I then plan to learn how to identify family members and discuss them and their lives. This is so I can learn vocabulary to help me communicate about my own family and my friend’s family in my letter that is the final task for this course. Next I will learn how to tell time and date because this is necessary for learning any language and culture. I will learn how to form sentences and conjugate verbs in the past and hopefully the future tense. Next I will learn how to discuss my college experience in the US, my field of study and also my daily activities. This will be hard because it is a huge chunk of vocabulary so I hope I will be able to this. I will then learn how to talk about my hobbies and perhaps sports so that I can talk about what I like to do in college when I am not studying. Before my final task I would like to order food from a Korean food place in Richmond to test my vocabulary skills. Finally, I will write a letter to my friend in Korea and use all the vocabulary I will learn throughout this semester. Hopefully the learning task I have in mind is doable in such a short span of time.