During these last few sessions, my language partner and I focused on reviewing the grammar that I had studied during the most recent chapter of the textbook. In addition, I was quizzed on sentence construction using the vocabulary of this chapter as well. Although I had a good idea of how to build the sentences, I still had to look back on my notes to remember the characters. I have had trouble memorizing the words and I should spend more time on the vocabulary. Besides reviewing the chapter grammar and vocabulary, we also recorded our podcast to review the work we have done this semester and it was fun to look back on these last few months. It is a bit sad since I will be graduating this year so I won't be able to participate in these sessions anymore but I am grateful to have found such a fun and helpful department for learning about linguistics, language, and Hangul. One of the things that I really enjoyed this semester with learning Korean was that we had a textbook to look into during lessons and studying. I found that last semester I spent a lot of time on worksheets, which was still really helpful but a textbook offers structure and direction that is invaluable. With that in mind, I really enjoyed this most recent chapter on purchasing goods. One of the main uses of a language is understanding cuisine and being able to apply the language in buying stuff. Learning about Korean currency was also quite interesting and required a bit of numbers as mentioned in the previous learning journal.
My language partner also learned the deep dive on Korean grammar as well and she commented on how the Korean particles was not something she thought about but just did naturally as a native speaker. It makes me wonder about what parts of the English language I take for granted as a native speaker and may be difficult or nearly impossible to distinguish for the English learners out there. Sometimes English words can differ only by a couple letters and can be confusing and I can see similar issues popping up when learning Korean.
I hope to continue learning Korean and applying it after graduation as learning it was quite fun. I know that my career most likely will not require the use of Korean but I initially picked it up as a way of supplementing my hobbies and interests in Korea comics and variety shows. Not to mention Korean music is becoming even more popular abroad so knowing the language may be interesting when the Billboard music list is filled with Korean Artists. I might also pick up another language after Korean and strive towards becoming a polyglot though that is wishful thinking because I do not have the motivation to learn that many languages without purpose. Although my experience in SDLC was limited because of the Covid-19 pandemic, I hope that future students here will get to experience the community of the department and the engaged learning that comes with studying face to face.
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