This semester, my biggest goal was to read news articles and to listen to news freely. Therefore I worked on this with Evelyn by reading and discussing about particular news topics. I am glad that my experience of trying to read news articles got gradually better as I gained more confidence and speed in reading. As I moved to the states, I was still able to have a daily conversation in Korean with friends, but I was not exposed to any Korean books or articles. Evelyn and I focused on reading this semester, and it got better as I spend more time on it. Some of the phrases and wordings are still difficult for me to understand, but I could make sense out of it by looking the relationship of sentence before and after.
Evelyn and I didn't practice much for writing. If I get a chance to take this class again, I definitely would like to focus on writing more. When I had an internship at Korea over the summer, I was surprised as I figured that I could not write easily in Korean anymore. I struggled to write a progress report and simple emails. I sometimes have to check my grammar even when I text my friends. I acknowledged that I am very rusty on grammar rules as I stopped to write in Korean for long time. As I think writing is the hardest part in perfecting the language, I would like to practice more on my writing skills in the future.
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