This week I worked on my language learning plan. I filled out my assessment checklist first and then listed out my goals. At the current stage, for interpersonal communication, I can say hello and goodbye to different groups of people and make some simple statements in a conversation. I need a little bit of help when I’m introducing myself or ask and answer simple questions, but I can understand many simple phrases by listening. For interpretive listening and reading, I can understand courtesy phrases as well as some basic information. I can also recognize some celebrity’s names, simple phrases, and menu items.
For presentational speaking, I can count 1 to 10 and the day of the week. I can introduce myself in simple and short sentences without too much detail about myself. I want to learn more about self-introduction including personal information, my likes and dislikes, and my daily activities or interests. For presentational writing, I can write out the alphabet and the characters or words I’m learning. I do need hints when I’m writing out simple sentences such as “happy birthday.” I also know how to say and write really simple words in Korean such as “chair” and “car”, and I do want to learn more words this semester.
I’m interested in Korean tv shows, dramas, as well as K-pop songs, so I want to use them as parts of my learning resources. I want to be able to recognize short sentences or phrases posted on Instagram by Korean celebs. I also want to be able to understand the major part of a Korean tv show. I’ve been thinking about using Korean tv shows or films I love to practice my listening and reading. In the end, if it is possible, I want to learn a Korean song. This requires me to be very familiar with the words and phrases people used in the show or the lyrics, so I put these as my future goals. I want to start from relatively simple parts to be more familiar with the language first.
For this semester, at the very beginning, I want to be able to communicate some basic information about my daily life as well as my interests. I also want to learn more about words around food, animals, colors, and time. I’ve been thinking about using pictures and specific examples to practice vocabulary or phrases. It usually takes me some time to recognize or write out the phrases I know, so I’d like to do more practice on that too. Recognizing items labeled in a supermarket and writing out a shopping list or to-do list can be an exercise for my reading and writing. I’ll use YouTube videos and textbooks as my main resources, but I believe practicing with my language partner or fellow partner will help a lot too. I’ll go through my tasks in the descending order of confidence so that I can be more familiar with some vocabulary and be more confident in my listening and speaking.
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