During the first half of the semester I accomplished approximately half of my learning goals (including being able to introduce myself, talk about my background, being familiar with numbers) and so my instructor and I focused on the following remaining goals:
-Being able to set up a meeting (day, month, hours, minutes)
-Being able to express my feelings
-Being able to go through a basic conversation in the corporate world
Regarding the ways of arrange a meeting, the key was to understand the korean numbers, which I became relatively good at it after a lot of practice but also to become familiar with the days of the week and the months. My instructor and I would go over all of them during a couple meetings to make it almost automatic for me to know them.
The big challenge of this second-half of the semester was to be able to read the time and give the time accurately. The numbers used for hours are different than the ones used for the minutes so it quickly gets complex. We proceeded in few steps; the first one was to learn the set of numbers for the minutes and then the set of numbers for hours. We finally associated them along with the notion of "AM" and "PM" to make it complete. Then I was able to associate the days/months with hours/minutes for a complete time scheduling.
An important thing everyone should be able to say in the country they are is the way they feel; for this reason we dedicated few lessons towards how to say "I feel ..." and "I ... you". Once I understood the structure I had to memorize and learn the adjectives and that was it! Obviously it took a bit more time to adjust the pronunciation.
Finally, my instructor and I allocated some time towards the few phrases that can occur in business conversations. So I am now able to say what I am doing for a living , in which industry I am working on etc... (as well as ask them to someone).
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