There was a lot that we covered during these two weeks. One of the most important topics we covered was the Korean number system. This was quite a challenge since Korea has TWO number systems that they use for different contexts. As someone who has only ever used one number system, there was a culture shock to me. Korea uses the Sino Korean number system for dates, money, time, addresses, numbers greater than 100, and phone numbers. It uses Native Korean for numbers of occurrences, counting, and ages. That was quite the mouthful and I definitely have to practice this over time. During the lesson, Somyung and I practiced speaking, reading, and writing the numbers. We did exercises such as telling the time and also telling each other our birthdays in Korean.
In addition to the number system, I also learned some more vocab about transportation and common items such as glasses or mask. One interesting thing is that the word 자 is used in both bicycle and car and independently already means car. A bit of redundancy here but no problem..
The next big topic that we dived into was expressions that are commonly used conversationally. This mainly came in the form of expressing emotions. Some examples of these are happy, anxious, tired, busy, sad. We also reviewed some more extreme emotions that built on the basic expressions. From these expressions we also learned how questions are the same as statements about oneself except for the tone of the speaker at the end of the expression. Simply with an inquisitive tone will do in expressing a question. This can be done in English as well but people don't usually do this.
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