Weeks 10 and 11:
Going along with the goals on my learning plan and the language tasks stated on the SDLC 110 Calendar, I learned about food and different phrases involving food. The word food in Korean is "umshik". I learned phrases such as "Did you eat yet?""What do you want to eat?" and "I want to eat ____." In addition, I learned simple words like breakfast (achim), lunch (jomshim) and dinner (jonyok). Along with Brigid's reenforcement of new words and phrases, I used an app on my iPad called "Learn Korean" which helped teach me how to pronounce each word dealing with different types of food. It has the English and Korean version of each word and when I click on the word it speaks it to me.
As for language task 8, I chose to watch a scene from my favorite Korean drama called "Dream high" and try to understand more of what was being said. Brigid and I chose a scene where these two girls are auditioning to get into a prestigious art school. Both girls sang a song together and my job was to try to understand the song. To prepare for this, I read the lyrics of the song and translated words that I was not familiar with. We found the video on youtube and watched the clip together. This was rather a difficult task because the song lyrics were hard to understand and keep up with but it was still a good experience. This helped to realize what I needed to work on. When they were singing it just seemed like all the words were blending in together which made it harder for to distinguish what the words were. One important phrase I learned from this song was to say "I have a dream" and "I believe in that dream". I thought these two phrases were useful to know in the future: "Nan kikum yi yitseo yo" and "Ge kkum ul midoyo."
Overall, in the past two weeks along with the help of my partner and language learning apps, I completed these two language tasks.
Attached is a screen shot of the app I was using just to give you an idea of what I was talking about and my third artifact of introduction of myself and my family. I wrote out a description of each family member in Korean to show my progress learning how to write.
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