This semester, I studied the Korean language and some of the Korean culture. Initially when starting this adventure, I was quite ambitious about what I wanted to learn before the semester ended. As the semester progressed, I realized that my learning plan involved more than I could accomplish within this semester so I had to scale back my goals. Thus I decided to learn greetings, ordering food, important shopping words and phrases, and question phrases such as “what is this?”, “what is that?”, etc. Throughout the semester, I’ve learned many words and phrases some that were new to me, but others were old to me because of my years of listening to Korean pop music and watching Korean dramas. I have had the chance to get to know my peers better who were also studying Korean. By doing the learning journals, I was able to reflect on my progress this semester, which was a bit slow at first, but I slowly progressed. Now I can read hangul, as well as a basic introduction and asking questions, so I think if I keep up with Korean for years to come, I’ll be able to write it without looking at the writing of others.
The difficulty that I encountered was not having a language partner to help me or to converse with because I, along with some others who have been studying Korean, was never assigned a language partner. Despite asking our professor many times for the language partner, we were not assigned a language partner at all. However, even though I did not have a language partner, I was able to find some free online resources that helped me with my Korean, but sometimes it is helpful to have a native speaker who can help you with pronunciation. Other than that slight difficulty, everything else with studying my target language of Korean went well.
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