SDLC 110 Learning Journal #13:
My learning goals for this week were to practice speaking in solely Korean for at least fifteen minutes. I plan to call my mom later today to hopefully accomplish this. I know that I have a limited range of vocabulary outside of topics that I normally am used to talking about. Therefore, I think that I will stick to the more familiar topics. However, I do plan to still be creative and hopefully utilize what I’ve been learning in my Korean classes into my conversation. Some topics that I think will be challenging to talk about but I’ll still attempt to converse about are my future career plans, more complicated emotions that I’ve felt, and the random things I did in my day (for example: describing actions that I normally do not do normally such as building a fort under my bed). If I am not able to describe exactly what I am trying to say, I am going to try my best to not resort to English. Rather, I hope that I have made enough neural connections to creatively come up with a response that is somewhat along the lines of what I am trying to convey. I hope to do this for fifteen minutes, but I think that if I am unable to, I will try again in a future phone call with my mom again. It is one thing to learn about a language. It seems to be another applying what I have learned into a real-life conversation that is meant to be fluid and natural.
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