This week's conversation was more casual. The main topic was what I was doing for Halloween weekend, which really only included shopping and homework, so we built a conversation out of that. One verb ending I have trouble with is the ending -seo. Depending on the context of the sentence, it can mean "because I did ___, ___ happened" or "I did ___ and then I did ___." I seldom use the latter because it makes less sense to me, but what I say instead doesn't connect the two verbs as fluidly. For a sentence that gives a clear sequence of events, Alvin will typically rework what I say to include that verb ending -seo to make my sentence better, so I've been getting used to using it and taking note of these sentences so that I can learn from them.
Another issue I have is with time and date. While I know numbers well enough (although since Korean has two different systems of numbers, it can take me a hilariously long time to simply think of the right number to say), I don't know how to apply them in sentences that talk about a time frame, or then talking about spending time. So I learned during this lesson how to say I would be at the mall for a few hours, which was a lot more straightforward than I would've expected. I learned some other useful sentences related to talking about homework and shopping, which use sentence structures that I can apply to other situations. Lastly, we talked about majors. I learned the word for "major" in college, and verified how to say what my major is, which is helpful to be able to talk about as a college student.
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