State your learning goals for this week and how you went about accomplishing these goals.
This week I continued to expand my Korean vocabulary and learned more about describing location. I learned the names for about a dozen body parts in class and then studied them more thoroughly on my own time. I also began to study words related to campus life from materials provided in class. According to the TA, some of the terms in the textbook are rarely used by Koreans. As we’ve gotten further into the class curriculum, several of these differences between what the textbook says and what is actually used by native speakers have come up. Although all of the terms, phrases, and grammar points taught in the textbook are correct, they can be a bit stiff and will make sense but will also make you sound like a foreigner. That point aside, knowing the campus related words is extremely useful since school and campus life is what I interact with on a daily basis.
On top of that, I learned how to describe locations of objects. One thing that was a bit confusing was that you have to attach a specific particle to the word describing the object’s location. It also seemed strange to me that you have to use a different verb the describes existence rather than being.
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