This was the last time my partner and I met to review everything together. I realized that for next semester's self directed learning, I need to have more conversations with my partner and just to speak more. I focused more on writing and reading that my speaking skills aren't up to par by the end of this semester. I have never done this before and I also learned that I am a very "by the book" person cause that's how I've always learned. I teach myself other subjects as long as there is a set lesson for each day. When it came to having a lot of freedom and to choose whatever I wanted to learn, it made it very difficult on me because I could not organize everything well enough for it to be completely efficient. Next semester, I will try to use the books more and do a lot speaking.
As for my self assessment, I think I managed pretty well with completing my goals and tasks. I achieved majority of my goals. I learned the alphabet, numbers, self-introduction, greetings/farewells, days of the week, months, telling time, about family members, daily tasks, writing, reading, and about food/ordering at a restaurant. In addition I learned a lot about Korean culture through my cultural project and the cultural posts. Some of the obstacles I came across were learning the alphabet, pronunciations (saying the letter L/R), and understanding structure. The alphabet was a bit difficult at first because they put a consonant and a vowel to create one block and it was hard to figure out how to combine them because the letters are characters. I'm used to the cyrillic alphabet since I am taking Russian right now so it was very different. The pronunciation of each alphabet was a little hard because of some of the sounds that the English language lacks. After lots of practice, I got the hang of things. Basically... practice, practice, and more practice was the key to overcoming these obstacles. I thought the number system was interesting because different words were used for counting numbers and for telling time. Everything about the language was fascinating so I could not say anything about what I least liked. For next semester, I would like to learn the grammar and conjugation instead of just full on memorization of phrases. This wasn't the most effective way to go about learning a language. Overall, this experience this semester has taught me a lot and I am excited use the skills I have acquired.
Included is my powerpoint presentation of my cultural project.
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