SDLC 105 Learning Journal #8

[Enzo Vargas]

If I had to estimate how many word’s I’ve learned, I would round it to about a couple hundred words in Korean. It’s difficult to list how many I words I know off the top of my head but I know I would be able to recognize and understand a lot more words if given to me. It’s a lot like thinking about how many words you know in English. I could list a couple hundred if not a couple thousand off the top of my head but in reality I know thousands and thousands more than that. When I compare learning new words in Korean and Spanish, I find it a lot more difficult to memorize Korean words. With Spanish, I’m able to create some connections with English that help me memorize the word rather quickly but Korean is so incredibly different from either English or Spanish. It’s incredibly difficult if not impossible for me to make some sort of association with new Korean words that would help me memorize them. I have to use pure brain power to learn new vocabulary.