SDLC 110: Bi-Weekly Learning Post #2

[Devin Chen]

Continued learning the Korean alphabet in the third week using games and boards and textbooks. Watched an episode in a Korean talk show with English subtitles. The episode introduced many people across the world that have learned Korean, there were Russian, Indonesian, Chinese, etc. The episode also went into depth about their experience and interaction with Korean, what was easy and difficult for them to understand. The most insightful thing was that the episode talked about phonetic similarities and differences between their native language and Korean. By the fourth week, we had done learning the Korean alphabet and started using the consonants and vowels to form real, meaningful characters. This was very satisfying to actually be writing and reading Korean characters after only four weeks of study.