Learning Journal 4

[Kevin Kim]

These two weeks of Korean were focused on more casual speech such as slang. I was very surprised to find out that slang has dramatically changed in the Korean language. I had grown up in Korean and have many Korean friends so I thought I knew slang well enough to watch and understand reality shows. The first week was focused on learning the different types of slang used primarily by the youth. Next, we then applied what we learned and watched several clips of reality shows in Korean. Each instance of a slang term used, we paused the video to write down what it meant. Watching these shows were a lot easier than understanding some of the formal language used in the Bible because informal language is used more than formal language. However, I was surprised to see how much the language and culture changed around slang usage in Korea.

[Sarah Kwon]

It was really hard to learn the slang used in Korea. I think they use more slang compared to America actually! It was interesting because you had to decipher what each character meant and what it was shortened for. I personally was shocked at how many slang phrases I used not knowing that they were shorted, slang expressions.