After becoming familiar with the different forms of past, present and future tenses, I decided to increase my vocabulary of verbs. Therefore, I made a list of commonly used verbs in Korean. After making the list, we practiced their pronunciations. However, this time, instead of my language partner saying the words and me repeating them, I attempted to read them from the Korean transcript and my language partner corrected me later. Thus I noticed that I had gained a certain degree of independence in the language. I did not have to depend on my language partner all the time.
After learning the new verbs, Sam and I decided to make a dialogue using the new verbs and the past tense. We first wrote the dialogue in English, but instead of asking our language partner to translate the dialogue to Korean for us, we attempted to translate it by ourselves. We were actually surprised by our ability to translate almost the entire dialogue by ourselves, with occasional help from Alvin with some vocabulary. This activity greatly increased my confidence in Korean and I could finally see the effects of all these months of learning Korean.
Also I noticed that watching Korean shows has ingrained some of the rules of pronunciation, sentence structure and grammar in me so that whenever I am learning something new in Korean it instantly clicks inside me. I find myself referencing back to something from the shows that I have heard a hundred times.
Therefore, from now on I have decided to take initiative to try new things and also to take the first steps by myself instead of relying on the assistance of Alvin all the time.
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