Journal Entry 2

[James Jang]

            Throughout this month, I’ve spent a lot of time learning how to talk with fluidity in conversations. I’ve always had trouble with staying consistent with the flow of my speech whenever I spoke Korean. It is because my vocabulary inventory isn’t the greatest especially when having very advanced conversations. I always catch myself stopping to think on what to say next or using English instead to complete my sentence. To work on my fluidity, I spent a good amount of my time doing day to day activities with my language partner and just talking in Korean so that we can go over a wide variety of difficult conversations. I was able to realize that there are so many words I could use just to convey a single idea which allowed me to realize that I have a lot of room to learn new advanced words. I also spent a lot of time talking to my language partner about formal and informal speech and writing. Knowing from how people text and talk depending on who the recipient is and understanding why I have to use formal and informal language in certain circumstances helped me expand my knowledge of Korean language and culture. I think that this month really increased my proficiency and fluidity of speaking Korean.