Week 8: Progress to date
For the last few weeks, we have covered quite a few grammar lessons. This semester is very different from the first semester since I have more experience in learning the self-directed language. Before, I did not have a good direction of how to carry out my lessons and learn my tasks. This semester, I have a solid plan with specific tasks that I would like to learn. I feel much more organized and more productive when doing my lessons with my partner. She explains things well when I have questions and tries her best to help me understand everything. So far, the lessons have been sufficiently effective because when I hear dialogues and speeches, I can distinguish words and phrases much better than I was able to before. Being able to express what I like and what I don't like or what I have and what I don't have makes conversation go a bit smoother. Knowing a few grammars also helps with sentence construction but grammar is definitely not the easiest part of learning the language. There are many rules and exceptions that are different from the English language so sometimes it is a little frustrating but that comes with learning any new languages. I hope to keep up with the work and keep learning for the rest of the semester.
Week 9: Fourth Bi-weekly Post:
For week 8 and week 9 (spring break), my language partner and I weren't able to meet due to scheduling problems conflicting with studying for midterms. Instead of doing a new lesson, I looked over the last three lessons and tried to increase my reading speed while memorizing the vocabularies more. During spring break, I spent majority of my time watching a korean drama called "Dream High 2" which is the continuation of "Dream High" that I watched last semester. From watching the series with the subtitles, I was able to hear some phrases from different voices. I could hear the actors saying common phrases such as I'm sorry, thank you, are you okay? where are you going? and etc. It's good to hear the different formalities being used in the scenes because during our lessons, I am more focused on using only the formal rather than the informal language used within people of the same age.
Learning activity:
One of the tasks I completed was to tell directions/locations. In this learning activity, I will create a worksheet with pictures of buildings which will have a blank line under each building to be filled in by the person doing the activity. There will be a word bank of the vocabularies that the person can refer to but the vocab will be introduced to the person beforehand. In the middle of the page will be another fill in the blank sentences that needs to completed with the correct locations. Example: _______(a building: bookstore) is next to _______(another building: cafeteria).
This will be a little tricky because you would need to also include grammar when creating these sentences. An object marker must be used after the first building before expressing the location and the correcting ending from lesson three must also be used to complete the sentence.
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