This week I watched a YouTube video explaining how to tell the date; the link to the video can be found in my lesson plan under task number 5. This method of learning was fun and simple because it changed up the ways of a typical textbook lesson and everything is explained to you as you see the content. It is very helpful for me in that way considering I'm an auditory learner.
The content of the video contained Sino-Korean numbers, those derived from the Chinese number system, the names of the months, and structures of a date. It was interesting to notice patterns in how the numbers are put together. For example, the words for 20, 30, 40 etc. are like saying 2 10, 3 10, etc. For the names of the months, they use the number of the month and put it in front of their word for month such as 1st month and 2nd month. That makes it very simple for someone learning the language. The video explained any and all changes to spelling, which I don't believe would be to common in every day life; however, it is very useful to have that tool under my belt for a situation that requires that knowledge. For practice, I wrote down how to say my birthday. In Korean they put the year, month, then day which is quite different from our month, day, year.
A new strategy that I have just started is changing the language of my iPhone to Korean. This way, I will constantly be exposed to new words and terms which will make it faster in memorizing them. It's an interesting change, but I'm up for the challenge. This connects to what I've learned in this lesson through seeing the date change every day and using the calendar app to set up all my reminders. As always, I'm excited to learn more about the language and the culture and I think this tiny step will make a big difference.
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I like that you used YouTube videos to learn Korean. I usually stick to what my language partner teaches me, but there are probably many YouTube videos on various topics that I can learn from while also practicing to listen to my target language. I also think it's very impressive that you changed your phone language to Korean!