This is my second semester of taking Korean. After one semester of exploring different ways of learning a new language, I found a few ways that work pretty well for me and a good amount of topics that I want to learn more about. I worked with my language partner last semester in a small group, and that really helped me discussing and doing conversation practices.
I met with my language partner last week and we talked about the topics I want to learn. I definitely want to learn more about Korean traditions and interesting manners. For example, there is a manner in drinking in Korean culture, and there are a lot of interesting games for drinking too. I also want to learn about traditional games in Korea, since I've seen them a lot on TV shows but never really understood them.
We also talked about my goals for this semester. First of all, I want to be more fluent in conversation. We did a conversation practice last semester and it was really fun and helpful. We learned a lot of vocabulary and phrases on various topics, so now we want to start making them full sentences. I also want to be better at reading and listening. I did get better at reading Korean phrases last semester and became more confident in it, so I want to keep practicing that. For listening, we found out that YouTube videos are really helpful, and they can bring me into a context too. Overall, I am very excited about the Korean course this semester.
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