안녕하세요!
So at this point in the semester, we were about mid-way through the semester! I can't believe that! It's so crazy how fast time moves! I'm not ready to graduate! I am, but I'm also not!
Some of the key things Joora and I have been able to work on during this time of our Korean language learning was writing, reading, and comprehension. We've spent a lot of time improving my reading and writing, so I'm really thankful. With Suyeon unnie, my first language partner when I began self-directed Korean, Suyeon and I spent a lot of time learning the alphabet and speaking the most basic survival language. She was preparing me for my time abroad in Korea and I will attest that learning Korean with Suyeon was so beneficial to my study abroad experience!
Anyways, Joora and I focused for a bit on my reading skills. I severely lacked in that department! I was able to find a children's book online and I printed it out! We spent a week going through reading and comprehending the book and from time to time after that week, I would review the book with Joora! It was so cool to see how at the beginning it was so hard to even pronounce the words and then by the end be able to read smoothly without any hiccups! And even more worthwhile that I knew what I was saying! ㅋㅋㅋ
I would say that reading a book (even if it's just a children's book) was one of the most rewarding moments during my self-directed Korean learning this semester. It was really a task that resulted from my own intentionality. And evening with reading, it combines speaking too! So I know that this exercise definitely helped me overcome some of fear of speaking!
I've attached a copy of my printed storybook! It has all the notes and vocabulary on it too so you can see some of the processing I went through trying to understand and get down on reading the story well!
After reading the book, Joora and I spent some time learning a church song too! More information about that whole process can be seen with my Third Artifact post!
During this interim time, Joora and I had also gone through all the books of the Bible and we focused on the book of Luke as well! We went through scripture and vocabulary!
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