For my first artifact, I recorded a short clip of introducing myself in Korean. I said (translated): Hello. Nice to meet you. My name is Vivian. I'm 21 years old. I was born in Seoul, South Korea, but moved to the U.S. when I was 8. I'm currently a third year at University of Richmond. I want to become a dentist in the future.
For evaluation for accent, cultural appropriateness, and linguistic accuracy, I sent my recording to my Korean friend who is a native speaker. I speak slower in Korean in English, but she said my introduction was culturally appropriate (used jondatmal) and had good flow and right choice of words. My friend said that I had a slight accent (probably an English accent) in some of the words, but overall, was pretty good.
I've also completed my goals for Weeks 4 and 5. I've learned how to converse casually with friends. I went over lesson 4 and 5 and they were both in banmal not jondaetmal so it was easier for me to follow along. The audio for the texts speak pretty fast so I had to replay it a couple of times to hear the correct pronounciation, but I mainly use the audio for listening to the flow of sentences (but I wish there was slower version).
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