SDLC 110: Bi-Weekly Learning Post #3

[Devin Chen]

By the fifth week, we are trying to learn more vocabularies. We started off by learning how to count numbers. There are two different systems of counting numbers in Korean, depending on different occasions, and it is often difficult for foreigners to immediately tell when to use which. We also learned the days of the week, basic emotions, and basic introductory sentences. I have found the vocabularies very hard to retain, I will just have to repeat it over and over before I remember them. On the sixth week, the learning partner gave us a short quiz on Korean vocabulary, she gave us the phonetic translation in English and we would write it down in Korean. We moved on to learning complex vowels and consonants, some sounds such as “w” is not in the Korean consonants, so instead, they use a combination of “u” and “a” to form the “w” sound.