During the first session with my language partner I focused on reading and comprehension. To practice reading, I chose to read the lyrics of a song that talks about the daily routine and family relationships. I had to be very careful selecting a song since most of the songs talk about relationships, love and emotions. Such topics were not suitable reading material as they involve comparisons, abstract descriptions, and words which are rarely used in daily conversations. Even though it was difficult to choose a song, I still wanted to practice reading with lyrics because it would be easier for me to remember the vocabulary as I would be listening to the song frequently. Reading the lyrics I learned how to pronounce different words. Although I know how to pronounce different letters are vowels, there are always exceptions in the pronunciation of certain words. There are also different rules such as sometimes 'ss' is pronounced as 't'.
I also tried comprehension by working through the questions in an online Korean level test. At first, I tried the questions in the intermediate level, however, I found that my reading and comprehension skills were not yet at the intermediate level. As a result, I tried the beginner level questions and found them much easier to handle. Even if the level was beginner, there were several words that I did not know.
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