SDLC 105
Post Learning Journal #10 on Your Blog in the Ning
Reflect on your experiences of (trying to) read and write in your target language.
I think that I am terrible at reading and writing in Korean. However, I have improved in my reading skills this semester, and I have been working on stressing the right sounds in order to make the sentence make sense. Quite frankly, I am very mediocre at writing because I have not had any formal training in it. I know how the alphabet sounds like, and I attempt to piece those sounds together in order to form words that I am trying to say. However, I will often make mistakes when doing this because there will sometimes be consonants that I did not realize were in the word, or the word is spelled slightly differently than how it is pronounced. In terms of reading, I am slow, but I have been working on it. I have a difficult time reading and understanding what I am reading at the same time. I have to read the sentence multiple times in order to say it correctly as well as understand what the sentence is trying to say. As a child, I remember having a textbook that I would read stories from for Korean school. Though I would be clumsy at first when reading the stories, I would eventually get into a groove and be able to read with more and more ease. In retrospect, I think that I am still the same way. Once I get into the habit of reading more than a few sentences, I am better able to shift into reading the words more fluidly.
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