SDLC 105 Learning Journal #10

[Yi Shen]

   Reading and writing in Korean is more difficult than speaking.  I organized four simple strategies for reading in a foreign language including Korean. First of all, carefully choosing what to read. Since I'd like to learn more daily conversations, most of time I read non-academic writings such as fashion and fitment magazines. Although there still have a lot of new vocabularies, I can get a sense of how the sentences form and the way that native speakers describe the goods. The second method is to read before I read, sometimes the article has both English and Korean versions. I will read the English version first and then go over the Korean version. For both reading and writing, vocabulary is always the learner's arch nemesis but it is unavoidable. So the third method is to underline the unfamiliar vocabularies and look them up later. The last one I think is the most useful that combining speaking and reading together. Trying reading aloud will help ingrain proper pronunciation and build confidence in both reading and speaking. Also, I will benefit from using some tools to record myself as I read aloud that helps me to pay attention on the pronunciation and the sentence structure.