During the past month, we learned a lot of things. Since my goal for this course this semester is to learn daily words and commonly used words, so that I could be able to understand the Korean drama or reality show I watched easily without the captions, also I wish to be able to communicate with native Korean about basic things, like greeting, ask directions and order food. So we start with some commonly used adjective words and combine them with their antonym, for example, a word is good “좋아” and bad “나빠”, another word group is long “길어요” and short “짧아요”. We learned a total of 8 groups, and for easy memories, Vivian test me every 4 groups by saying a word’s English, and I say that word in Korean, and I correctly answered most words. In this way, I think having a little quiz while learning new words really helps me memorize, more than that, memorizing words with their antonym is really useful and can help me form a stereotype. After memorizing those words, Vivian taught me several daily greeting sentences, like “How are you today?” (잘 지냈어요?), and I can just reply with the words good “좋아” and bad “나빠” that I just learned.
After learning the commonly used adjective word groups, and focusing on my goal, Vivian start to teach me some commonly used words to describe the weather and how to use those words. We first learned the words rain “비” and snow “눈”. To be able to use those words in conversation and to express “It’s raining” and “It’s snowing”, Vivian introduce the verb “와”, which means “falling”. Combining the weather with the verb gives us “비와” and “눈와”, which could be used to answer the question “How’s the weather today?”(날씨 어때?). Since the answer to the previous question we learned is simply a word, I had a question about why instead of just answering the weather words, we have to add a verb to answer this question. Vivian explain to me that the way we have to do this is if we just answer “rain”, it does not mean it is raining and will make the other person confused. Later we learned the words fog “안개”, sunlight “햇빛” and moonlight “달빛”. For those words when we describe the weather we add “있어” to the end, which means “have” and combine it with the words, for example, “햇빛 있어” means “There is sunlight”. For the word “lighting 번개” we learned a special verb to describe it, which is “처”. Add those together give us “번개 처”, which means “There’s lighting”, but here “there is” is not like “there is sunlight”, because lighting doesn’t continuously appear in the sky, it shows up and disappears, so the verb “처” is used here to give a sense of suddenly show up.
Every week after class, since I like to watch Korean reality shows, my homework is to write down words I don’t know while watching an episode of a reality show and share them in class. In this way, I learned a lot of words for food and ghost in Korean.
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