Learning Journal 1

[Mary Chang]

I want to be at a level of superior or distinguished for all 5 categories (interpersonal communication, presentational speaking, presentational writing, interpretive listening and interpretive reading). I want to be able to speak fluently about a variety of topics especially in formal work settings even about unfamiliar topics and complex issues. I also want to be able to write professionally with more advanced level of vocabulary use and understand complex and abstract issues presented in advanced media such as news. I also have had a problem understanding professional words, Chinese characters incorporated idioms and regular phrase-like idioms. So I would like to learn them so that I can understand and also use them in my communication as well. Eventually, I want to be able to keep up with current events and more complex issues in Korean as well so I can have more professional and academic conversations with other professionals. I also barely read any books in Korean, so I want to read many novels in Korean and possibly study some of history of Korea which I barely know anything about.