In addition to posting your learning plan to the Ning, provide brief commentary describing how you have organized your self-directed learning plan. What have you learned so far? Have you identified resources and textbooks to promote your task-based objectives? How will your studies allow you to investigate your target language and culture more deeply? What first prompted your interest, and motivated you to start learning? What feedback have you received from your classmates?
So my learning plan was organized around what exposed and interested me in South Korea. I began with League of Legends and the LCK specifically because gaming was what made me aware of Korean as I played Starcraft 2 and watched the professional games from a very young age. So nowadays as League of Legends is very popular in Korea I found that engaging with what I am passionate about would resonate with me. Music and film followed as I met a lot of Korean students at Richmond, and what keeps me invested is my friends in Korea and my desire to be able to communicate with them in their native language. So far I have only learned the basics. I like to say I can impress elderly Koreans, but I am lost in full conversations. For concrete and more academic resources I am utilizing my Yonsei Korean textbooks to review and practice. I want to gain a mastery of this level one material that I used to learn just enough to pass exams, but now I can gloss over things and take the time to properly pronounce and use the vocabulary I am learning. On top of this I have been using Korean streams for League of Legends games, as well as duolingo. I find that during my Kakao conversations with my friends I have found that google translate is my best friend, but I try to always use it for one word at a time and construct things on my own. Eitan and I have discussed how we need to speak to each other more often in Korean. Even if we are only exchanging simple phrases because it gets us used to the sounds and further familiarity with the basics of conversation so they will feel natural when we are watching Korean media and chatting with people in Korean.
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