Weeks 8 and 9:
I completed tasks 5 and 6 which were to learn to tell/ask about time and to learn the numbers and dates. I had already introduced myself to numbers previously so I reviewed those numbers. There are different ways to say the numbers for the hour and the minutes. She said the numbers out loud first and I had to repeat them after her. Then I learned the structure of telling time. The structure: AM (ojeon)/PM (ohoo), hour # + (shi), and minutes # + (poon). For example, 3:43am would be read as ojeon sae shi sa shib sam poon. This task can be combined with task 6 of learning the numbers because now I can count from 1-99. Learning the structure of telling time was pretty simple once I memorized the numbers. I also learned how to ask about time which is "Jigum myot shi aeyo?". Now I know how to tell someone what time it is and ask a person what time it is. As for telling what day it is, Brigid and I learned how to write it and say it. I am familiar with the alphabet so I can slowly but effectively put the letters together and read. After you state what day it is, you always add "yo-il" at the end of each day. To ask what day it is.. you can say "O nul un myot il yi aeyo?"
[The days of the week = Wol, hwa, soo, mok, kum, tto, il]
Months: il wol, yi wol, sam wol, sa wol, o wol, yook wol, chil wol, pal wol, gu wol, shib wol, shibil wol, shib yi wol.
Learning activity: Since I just learned how to tell time, I decided to teach my roommate how to say the time in Korean. In order to do this, I created a worksheet with a big clock drawn on it with the pronunciations of the numbers for the hours 1-12 written around the circle. I also wrote the numbers for the minutes 1-10 on the bottom. Once you know how to say 1-10 you can figure out how to say 11-60 pretty easily. I also wrote the format/structure for telling time as I mentioned above. I gave her an example of a time and told her the time according to the format I've provided for her. She said it was fairly easy as long as she was pronouncing it correctly. I gave her a couple of different times varying between am/pm and low/high minutes but she was able to successfully put the numbers and words together to give me the correct time. I would say this was a pretty effective lesson because I taught someone else what I am learning which re-enforced my skills of telling the time. My teacher from middle school once told me that teaching someone else is an effective way to teach yourself.
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