On the first week of class, my language partner asked us about what did we learn before and gave a simple test to us to make sure which level were we at. We did self introduction in Korean first to know about each group members. I introduced my age, birthday, hobbies and major in Korean. After finding out our Korean level, she also asked us to write down what we exotic to learn in this class. We made a list for things that we are going to learn during this semester.
First of all, we are going to review hangul since we are still not familiar with it. It is still kind of hard for me to spell words correctly and quickly. And I also always forgot the pronunciation of hangul. In light of this, reviewing hangul is really important.
Secondly, we are going to learn grammar. My language partner Evelyn used handout to help us understand grammar before. For this semester, Brenda decides to use textbook so that we can learn grammar systematically. I actually have already known some basic grammar. This semester I will learn more about harder grammar.
Thirdly, we will learn as many vocabularies as possible. Our primary goal for this semester is to learn more daily vocabularies. For example, fruit, food, and place.
Last but not the least, we will also watch Korean movie once. This will help us improve our listening skills. For me, I watched a lot of Korean drama. So I can understand some easy Korean conversations without subtitles.
On the second week of the class, we learned grammar about how to say the sentence politely and formally by using “i ta”. It is used to express the identity or state of a subject, or to designate an object. We used a lot of examples to help us remember. For instance, this is my desk. And we also write “I am a student in University of Richmond” in Korean. We also learned informal ways to speak to the listeners. We learned when we should use “nn” and when we should use “en” in the sentence as well. “nn” and “en” is particle that is used with a noun to denote the topic or theme of a sentence. When the noun ends in a consonant, we use “en”. When the noun ends in a vowel, we use “nn” And we also learned how to use it to express comparison or emphasis in Korean by writing example sentences. For example, I wrote “I like meat. But I don’t like fish.” What’s more, we also learned how to say colors in Korean such as red, yellow, orange, blue, purple, black, white and pink. We also learned how to ask people that what their favorite color is and how to answer this question.
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