State your learning goals for this week and how you went about accomplishing these goals.
This week I learned new vocabulary to describe the flavor of food. Youngmin introduced the lesson on food by bring in some ddeokbokki chips for us to try. They were very good. That aside, were learned words like salty, sweat, spicy, and the like, so now we can both name various foods and describe them as well. In addition to adding new vocabulary, we continued to practice describing the position of an object. I think that I’m getting used to describing position in Korean because I feel as though I can comprehend and explain an object’s position faster than I could the week before.
We did something different this week and we watched a Korean movie, Ode to my Father, with English subtitles. Youngmin chose this movie because it’s famous in Korean and it covers Korean history starting from the end of the Korean war and ending around modern day. The film was dramatic to the point of comical, which was a bit distracting from the movie’s actual content. The film followed the life of one man to represent how Koreans fit into historical, global events. For example, this character escapes to southern Korea before the DMZ was established, worked in the German coal mines, and was injured in Vietnam during the war. Practically, it seems impossible for one person to be at so many historical events during the course of their life, but if you view this character as a device to bring us to different historical events, this character’s miraculous life makes more sense.
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