Learning Goals:
My learning goal for week 8 is to solidify my last interpersonal communication goal by developing my previous knowledge about the second way to say the numbers in Korean. I want to solidify my knowledge about both ways to say numbers because different situations call for different uses of the numbers. For example, the first counting method can be used to count things, such as the number of pencils you have. One would be hana, two would be dool, and etc. I am more familiar with this method, but I can also work to solidify this method. The second method can be used to account for birthday dates, such as saying my birthday is February 8. I have some struggles with this latter method, when the birthday dates go past 20 because it is slightly difficult for me to remember. As a result, my goal is to solidify both counting methods, so that I can use both ways for different goals! I can accomplish these goals by learning the first standard numbers for 1-10, and then looking at what each number is for 20's, 30's, etc, because each set of 10 numbers are usually similar with the same beginning, just with different endings. This would be a good way to learn because I am familiar with the ending and just need more help with learning the beginning part.
Create a Learning Activity:
So far, I have learned how to better communicate with my family and friends about fields of study courses and related careers. As a result, my learning activity was to teach my non-Korean speaking friend about these topics. My friend’s major is history, so I taught her how to say “my major is history” in Korean. I was able to teach her by applying how I learned these vocabulary words and making a sentence through my conversation with my learning partner. I slowly introduced her to the topic by teaching her the new vocabulary of what major was in Korean, which is jeon-gong. Then, I taught her what history was in Korean, which is yeok-sa. I also gave her the option to learn other vocabulary. After learning new vocabulary, we worked on constructing a sentence together by matching the English words to the Korean words. This was an effective activity because it wasn’t overwhelming with learning too many new things at once and was fun because of the interactive activity.
