Learning Journal 2

[Kevin Kim]

In the last two weeks my language partner and I studied the Bible in Korean. One of my learning goals was to be more literate when reading the Bible in Korean. Growing up in a Korean church, I was already familiar with the Bible and the many stories. However, I never read the Bible in Korean. Learning the Bible in Korean was difficult because the texts were in very old fashioned Korean. A lot of words and names are very specific to the Bible so they were very unfamiliar. Because of the many differences from the casual Korean I was used to, this was a hard process. My strategy for studying the Bible in Korean was to use a Korean-English Bible that had both texts side by side. By doing this, I was able to read the English version first before the Korean version to better understand the context and the summary. Learning the Bible in Korean was a frustrating task because everything I knew about the Bible in English seemed new and foreign in Korean.