SDLAP 110 Weekly Journal Week 9

[Heather McDonough]

During this week, Alvin and I discussed hobbies. I described as best I could in Korean how I am in a hip-hop group on campus, and how my high school color guard experience means that I then can't do hip hop as well. I built on and connected vocabulary related to talking about experience, such as learning the word for "thanks to" and how its positive connotation makes it different from the word for "because of," including example sentences where each would be used and why. I learned how to say "raise my foot," as that was related to what I was talking about when describing dance. I initially used the wrong verb, so Alvin clarified what the right verb would be, along with how to conjugate it as that confused me a bit. I also learned how to say "for example," which is very useful for me in trying to describe concepts using specific cases, as it's easier for me in a foreign language to give an example than to use more complex vocabulary.