Learning Journal 5

[Kevin Kim]

These past two weeks were focused on environmental studies in Korean. This topic was particularly difficult because of the scientific language used in the articles. We first looked at an article about particulate matter. Reading this article, we learned about what particulate matter was in Korean and the many hazardous effects they can have. The Korean article had several graphics to illustrate its points but I had to ask about much of the text because I did not know the words. The next week, we were tasked to find a news article of our own about particulate matter. We had to read and annotate the text as best as possible so we can ask questions about it when we meet. Learning Korean in the context of science was particularly difficult because of the foreign language they used. Much of the words used in the English language did not translate directly to Korean in terms of phonology.