Reflect on your experiences as a language learner. What did you enjoy? What did you dislike? Think about the FIRE model and the surveys you have just completed. What kind of learner are you? What kinds of language learning activities suit your learning style? How do you think you should expand your learning activities?
I learned Spanish for four years in high school, and my favorite part of using the language was being able to piece together sentences from words that I had learned in class. Though I often cannot say a whole sentence that is grammatically correct, being able to use words together in Spanish and have others understand what I was trying to say was very satisfying for me, and a motivator for me to try harder to become more fluent. I am a visual learner, and I often rely on using flashcards and pictures to memorize words and objects. I find that rereading the same word or seeing the same picture 20 times in a row almost burns a permanently memory of that word/object into my brain. I have tried other methods in my four years of Spanish, but it is this particular type of visual aid that works best for me. I want to start working on my auditory skills, I am pretty bad on picking up what others say to me in foreign languages, especially if they are fluent. I heard that watching Netflix in a different language really helps, and I think watching fun Korean dramas would be both interesting and a fun activity for me to do this semester, something that I am really looking forward to!
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