I’m doing a Korean group lesson with Kate and Jenna. For our first Korean class, Jenna asked me and Kate about our learning plans and future goals. I mentioned some tasks I want to start with such as self-introduction, vocabs about animals and colors, as well as restaurant orderings, etc. I also mentioned that my future goal is to understand most of the Korean TV shows I’m watching, so Jenna suggested that we could use some clips of the shows as warmups to practice our listening or vocab prep. We also discussed our use of textbook, mostly for grammar, and we will look for it as we go.
For our last class, we worked on self-introduction, some vocabulary including animals, colors, and weather. It was a combination of my task1, task2, and task 6, and I like it as a combination of my goals. We started with a clip of The Journey to the West, which is one of my favorite Korean TV shows. We watched it with subtitles, but I tried to read the Korean sentences at the same time. Then, we worked on the handout Jenna printed out for us. I tried to read the sentences and fill in the blanks with my personal information, which was fun. I learned how to say “I go to the University of Richmond” as well.
After that, we went through some vocabs that were mentioned in the clip we just watched and in my task. We tried to form sentences with the vocabularies as well. I learned that there are different names for big dogs and little puppies, and also the different forms of nouns and adjectives of colors and weather. Then we moved on to some sentences with grammar. I learned how to state my likes and dislikes, and also how to deny something. We distinguished the difference between two hangul alphabets that could be used incorrectly as one another. We also tried to write down some examples on our own by implementing the grammar. I found that making examples on our own with the grammar points we just learned is a quite efficient way of learning, especially if we share them and ask more questions about them. We get the chance to communicate about ourselves as well as our friends or parents.
For next week, after a quick review of what we’ve practiced last week, I want to learn more vocabs around animals and colors and new grammar points. I’m also looking for YouTube videos with Koreans in them talking about their daily activities or the food they like. As we mentioned to Jenna at the end of last class, Kate and I want to have more reading exercises as well. Both of us have some basic background in Korean, so we agreed that we could move on a little bit faster for our future classes. Of course, the class last week gave us a good review and gave us a chance to get used to communicating and writing in Korean.
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