Learning Journal #1

[Corinna Cho]

After reading the articles, learning a language is extremely complex and it is amazing how our brains are able to process and learn it. The article talks about knowing several languages increase your ability to better understand your own language and provide better sense and reference. This was very interesting because I think of Chinese and English as extremely different languages, but it did make sense at the same time. In the article it also talks about phonetics and how hearing the language can help with pronunciation. This is very applicable to be in the sense that watching and listening to Korean would better help with learning/pronouncing the words compared to me reading a textbook. I also thought that their section talking about the use of lexemes and collocations are extremely helpful in my new endeavor to learn Korean. When I was learning Chinese I often made synonyms/antonyms with the new words I learned, which helped increase my vocabulary and better understand the different words. Furthermore, learning words that are in a certain category would help with memorizing much more easily than just random words all put together.