This week I’ve been working on my language learning plan with the hope of devising a plan which is the best suited to my learning style. To start developing that I wanted to dive deeper into my motivations for choosing to learn Korean and what I want to get out of this course. I am really interested in learning more about the Korean culture and how people interact in their everyday lives. I want to be able to understand what ‘adding honorifics’ means, I want to know more about the fun games that kids used to play in middle school, I want to be able to truly understand the emotion behind a Korean song, I want to have a favourite Korean dish and be able to cook it, and I want to be able to form meaningful connections with people in Korean the way I could in Hindi and Telugu and a huge part of that again goes back to the culture and food. So, my main goals for this semester are to be good with conversational Korean and to get a deep understanding of the Korean culture, values, and food.
From the survey I learnt that I’m a tactile and visual learner. So I think my learning process would be ost efficient if I include activities which require those senses to be engaged. I unintentionally picked up some conversational Japanese from watching a lot of anime, so I think that watching k-dramas would be a good way for me to get used to the pronunciations and for me to see how people interact. Building my vocabulary by going through the object around me and labelling them in Korean would also be a good example of an activity that works with my learning style.
I also learned that my top few intelligences are logic, social, self, and spatial. I can incorporate activities in my learning plan which focus on these strengths to make it easier for me to learn new things. I can expand my vocabulary by diving into the etymology of the words and studying common root words. I can learn sentence structure by working with scrambled sentences. I love doing sudokus, word searches, and crossword puzzels, so I could do them in Korean to get a better grasp of Hangul and to expand my vocabulary. I have few friends who speak Korean so I can try to keep conversing with then in Korean whenever possible. Reading dialogues or reciting lyrics would also be super fun and helpful. I could read one inspirational/ motivational quote in Korean everyday. All these activities utilize my strengths and interests to keep me motivated and engaged in my language learning journey.
Above all, I want to make sure that I stay flexible with my language learning plan. I want to set goals and I want to assess how I chose to reach them and how effective my plan was. Then I want to look into my next goal and adjust the plan to accommodate more of what worked best and less of what didn’t work.
I believe that through this process of using my strengths and reflecting on how I’m responding to each activity, I can achieve my language learning goals.
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