Learning Journal #9

[Kristen Mejia]

This week I focused on language task #6 and my language goal for week 9, which were numbers and dates. I first started by learning numbers 1-25, 30, 40, 50, etc. in both the Sino-korean system and the native Korean system. Then I began learning the months, then the days or the week, and then the numbers of days in a month. Afterwards I moved onto the structure of the dates, like where the number, day, and month are positioned. Lastly, I learned phrases such as "what day is it today?" and "what day is it [today]?" This concept was slightly harder than telling time, but it wasn't too bad. I took very detailed notes, so whenever I kept getting confused, I looked back and was able to correct myself. I found that I really liked learning through YouTube videos. They are more entertaining than just reading a text on how to do something. For this concept I used a SweetandTastyTV video. 

[Michael Marsh-Soloway]

No need to respond immediately, but what made the grammatical constructions and vocabulary more difficult for dates? Does Korean differentiate between constructions involving dates expressed today, as opposed to events in the past and future? Also, what was the SweetandTastyTV video?