First of all, as I wrote in my final assessment for 105, taking this course and learning Korean on my own were the right decisions I have made. I have gained abilities including observe culture, connect culture with language, manage time and tasks and also stay motivated and be responsible for my own study all the time. Regarding to the tasks and goals I have set up at the beginning, I think I have achieved most of them. For example, I have tasks of learning how to say Welcome and Hello in Korean, how to ask about others' identities, and how to express emotions in Korean etc. I have used a lot of resources online including Korean learning cards which I ofter attached them in my journals and Korean learning videos to learn those topics. My four artifacts will be great reflections on what I have achieved in pronunciations . Moreover, my journals also reflect how I learned Korean in daily basic.
One part of my plan to study Korean is through watching Korean drama. At the beginning, I thought it was a relax and comfortable way to learn Korean because I enjoy watching drama so much. However, later I found that nothing was learned if I just watched it for one time and paid all attention to the story. Then I had to change my way of watching K-drama. I used to watch one whole drama one episode after another, then take a break. Now I started watching dramas that were currently airing at least one episode every day. I have watched nearly three 15 episodes drama so far for study. And when I was watching them, I began to pick up words and phrases that kept popping up. I wrote them down in notebook and kept re-read them everyday. Since I needed to stop the episode and replayed the sentence again and again, sometimes it is so annoying that I just want to give up and forget about the study assignment. However, every time I would persuade myself to be patient and insist on studying. Now after keeping doing this for a period, I was able to recognize the sounds and meaning of some words in K-drama without looking up online. Thanks to this learning process, I realized I have developed a better willpower and self-discipline.
In general, I think I have put many efforts on learning this course and Korean.Even though this semester has come to the end, I will not stop learning Korean and take it as a part of my study life.
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