105 Journal Entry #8

[Jimin Yoo]

I have not counted how many exact words that I learned this semester, but I definitely got to learn more sophisticated vocabulary words so far. By reading the news articles and books, I had to look up many words that I could not understand as it affected the way to comprehend the sentence. It became way more clear after looking up the words, and the sentence made much more sense. Sometimes I had to look up extra words as I could not understand the part of the definition from the dictionary, and I learned more by doing this. Therefore, I always read news articles with a online dictionary. Before taking this class, I just assumed that most of the sentence from news articles would not make sense to me at all, and gave up on reading advanced journals. However, now I have a confident in myself that I am able to understand intermediate readings if I look up vocabulary words. As it benefits me to do in depth reading, I am going to continue to utilize the online dictionary when needed.