- Focus on oral conversations
- Learning Style: Watching Korean radio, recording, practice long with recording
- Materials: Textbook Talk to Me in Korea Level 1, traveling book from the OIE, Korean articles, recommendations to films/drama, YouTube lesson, Mango language, memrise.com
Ultimate goal: At the end of this semester, I will be able to communicate with a Korean for at least five minutes. I would like to master the basic daily conversations, such as be able to ask a location of a cinema or shopping mall, ask and talk about identities, discuss food, tell and ask telephone numbers, discuss color and clothing, as well as being able to write simple sentences and emails.
- Tools to prove how I learn: Artifacts, recording, video
- Topic:
- Learn classroom/life survival language
- Learn study supplies words and basic questions such as could you repeat once more, could you spell out the words, could you give an example, can you speak a little slower, etc.
- Greetings/Self-Introduction
- Learn how to greet people in different period of a day, how to introduce myself when I meet a new person, and what to say when I leave. Learn how to introduce where I am from and what I major in, and ask others where they come from and major in.
- Family
- Learn how to introduce family members, and ask others their family members. I will learn vocabularies of sister, brother, parents, grandparents, cousin, aunt, and uncle.
- Food, how to order things
- Learn vocabularies of basic vegetables, fruit, dishes, and snacks. I will learn how to order food in the restaurant, what I like to eat, ask what others like to eat, and ask about whether they like their meals.
- Hobbies, interests
- Learn how to tell others my hobbies, and ask what others hobbies are. I will learn at least ten words on different hobbies.
- Directions
- Lean at least 10 country names, several city names. Learn how to ask directions, understand how to say left and right and go straight.
- Numbers, colors, dates, birthday
- Learn how count from 1 to 100, tell others my phone numbers and ask their numbers. I will learn how to tell the date and day of the week, as well as months, seasons.
- Learn how to say when is my birthday, and ask others when is their birthday.
- Cloth/Shopping
- I will learn the vocabularies of at least ten colors and different clothing. I will learn how to tell others what color I like, and ask others what color they like, ask what color is their clothing, tell what clothing I am wearing, and what clothing are they wearing.
- Learn how to ask how much a cloth costs.
- Time
- Learn how to tell others the time and ask what time is it now. Learn how to say I have class on the exact time, and ask what time others have class on.
- Jobs
- Learn how to ask what they do, where they work at, how do they like their jobs. I will learn at least ten job names. Learn what I would like to do, and where I would like to work at.
- Weather
- Learn how to tell others today’s weather, tomorrow’s forecast. Learn words of different weather types, such as windy, sunny, raining, cloudy, and windy. I will also learn how to express my personal feeling on different weather type.
- Learn classroom/life survival language
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Cecillian Sun (XT): Annyonghasaeyo (hello) pangapsepnida (nice to meet you). Je yirumun Cecillian yipnida. (My name is Cecillian.) Gujjogun yiremi muoyeyo? (What’s your name?)
Melody Zhuang (MD): Annyonghasaeyo (hello) pangapsepnida (nice to meet you). Je yirumun Melody yipnida. (My name is Melody.) Odieso watsoyo? (Where are you from?)
XT: Jonun jungguk eseo watseoyo. (I am from China.) Odieso watsoyo? (Where are you from?)
MD: Jonun jungguk eseo watseoyo. (I am from China) Chimiga muoyeyo? (What’s your hobby?)
XT: Je chimi nun yonghua bogi yipnida. (My hobby is watching movie). Chimiga muoyeyo? (What’s your hobby?)
MD: Je chimi nun dokseo yipnida. (My hobby is reading ) Haksang yiyeyo? (Are you a student?)
XT: Jonun haksang ipnida. (I am a student.) Je jungongun buziniss ipnida. (My major is business.) Haksang yiyeyo? (Are you a student?)
MD: Jonun haksang ipnida. (I am a student.) Je jungongun buziniss ipnida. (My major is business.)
XT: Annyonghi gaseyo. (Good bye)
MD: Annyonghi gaseyo. (Good bye)
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Cecillian Sun (XT): Annyonghasaeyo (hello) pangapsepnida (nice to meet you). Je yirumun Cecillian yipnida. (My name is Cecillian.) Gujjogun yiremi muoyeyo? (What’s your name?)
Melody Zhuang (MD): Annyonghasaeyo (hello) pangapsepnida (nice to meet you). Je yirumun Melody yipnida. (My name is Melody.) Odieso watsoyo? (Where are you from?)
XT: Jonun jungguk eseo watseoyo. (I am from China.) Odieso watsoyo? (Where are you from?)
MD: Jonun jungguk eseo watseoyo. (I am from China) Chimiga muoyeyo? (What’s your hobby?)
XT: Je chimi nun yonghua bogi yipnida. (My hobby is watching movie). Chimiga muoyeyo? (What’s your hobby?)
MD: Je chimi nun dokseo yipnida. (My hobby is reading ) Haksang yiyeyo? (Are you a student?)
XT: Jonun haksang ipnida. (I am a student.) Je jungongun buziniss ipnida. (My major is business.) Haksang yiyeyo? (Are you a student?)
MD: Jonun haksang ipnida. (I am a student.) Je jungongun buziniss ipnida. (My major is business.)
XT: Annyonghi gaseyo. (Good bye)
MD: Annyonghi gaseyo. (Good bye)
Tagalog has a predicate-argument structure, and is a verb initial, free word order language. This type of grammatical structure is found in many austronesian languages. Tagalog uses the following case markers: ang, ng, and sa. These words prepose phrasal arguments of a given verb. Sa is used in sentences describing goals, recipients, locations, and definite objects. Ng is used to indicate possessors, actors, instruments, and indefinite objects. Ang is used with Tagalog's voice-marking system. This system comprises of voice types: Actor Voice, Patient/Object Voice, Dative/Locative Voice, Instrumental Voice and Benefactive Voice. As you can see, Tagalog's grammatical structure is quite complicated. The information above comes from an article entitled "Recognising the Predicate-Argument Structure of Tagalog" published by researchers from the University of Melbourne in Australia. I think I can learn more about the structure by finding more information online, which is a fast, efficient and resourceful medium for language learning. A reference grammar would definitely help me learn the grammatical structure of the language, but ultimately, my goal is to be able to read complex Filipino works and literature. Since I can speak and understand Tagalog fairly well already, learning its grammatical structure would not be necessary but still interesting and informative.
This semester my cultural learning goals will be as follows:
1. I would like to learn more about the educational system in South Korea. Some of the questions I would like to explore are whether they have the elementary, middle and high school similar to the one in the US? How fierce is the competition between students? What type of extracurricular activities do they indulge in? What is the cost of education? Is bullying present in South Korean schools? What percentage of students go to college?
2. I am also interested in learning about the work place in South Korea. I have watched a couple of dramas about the hierarchy system in the office and also the discrimination between men and women at work.
3. South Korean myths, legends and superstitions intrigue me as well. I would like to learn more about this topic and its presence in the everyday lives of people.
4. I would also like to know about the chaebol community in South Korea.
The principle methods of reaching my cultural goals will be:
1. Talking to Korean friends and my language partner.
2. Reading articles about the topics.
3. Watching videos and korean television shows.
These cultural goals will enable me to understand the Korean culture even better as well as let me relate more to the Korean people's way of thinking. I would also like to know how different Korean cultural is from the US culture and how that contributes to the political and economic issues faced by South Korea.
Korean has a subject-object-verb word order, and the Korean alphabet is called Hangul. Hangul consists of 14 simple consonants and 6 simple vowels. As I known Korean grammar is heavily influenced by honorifics. Mengdong recommend me some online classes on two websites, which are How to study Korean and Hillslearning. Reference grammar will be a good option for me, because I can study the symmetrical grammar there. When I prepare the tests, TOEFL and SAT, reference grammar give me the guidance to form the sentence and read articles.
- Focus on oral conversations, along with basic alphabet and reading
- Learning Style: Listen to Korean radio, recording, practice long with recording
- Materials: Textbook Talk to Me in Korea Level 1, traveling book from the OIE, Korean articles, recommendations to films/drama, YouTube lesson, Mango language, memrise.com
Ultimate goal: At the end of this semester, I will be able to communicate with a Korean for at least five minutes. I would like to master the basic daily conversations, such as be able to ask a location of a cinema or shopping mall, ask and talk about identities, discuss food, tell and ask telephone numbers, discuss color and clothing, as well as being able to write simple sentences and emails.
- Tools to prove how I learn: Artifacts, recording, video
- Topic:
- Learn classroom/life survival language
- Learn study supplies words and basic questions such as could you repeat once more, could you spell out the words, could you give an example, can you speak a little slower, etc.
- Greetings/Self-Introduction
- Learn how to greet people in different period of a day, how to introduce myself when I meet a new person, and what to say when I leave. Learn how to introduce where I am from and what I major in, and ask others where they come from and major in.
- Family
- Learn how to introduce family members, and ask others their family members. I will learn vocabularies of sister, brother, parents, grandparents, cousin, aunt, and uncle.
- Food, how to order things
- Learn vocabularies of basic vegetables, fruit, dishes, and snacks. I will learn how to order food in the restaurant, what I like to eat, ask what others like to eat, and ask about whether they like their meals.
- Hobbies, interests
- Learn how to tell others my hobbies, and ask what others hobbies are. I will learn at least ten words on different hobbies.
- Directions
- Lean at least 10 country names, several city names. Learn how to ask directions, understand how to say left and right and go straight.
- Numbers, colors, dates, birthday
- Learn how count from 1 to 100, tell others my phone numbers and ask their numbers. I will learn how to tell the date and day of the week, as well as months, seasons.
- Learn how to say when is my birthday, and ask others when is their birthday.
- Cloth/Shopping
- I will learn the vocabularies of at least ten colors and different clothing. I will learn how to tell others what color I like, and ask others what color they like, ask what color is their clothing, tell what clothing I am wearing, and what clothing are they wearing.
- Learn how to ask how much a cloth costs.
- Time
- Learn how to tell others the time and ask what time is it now. Learn how to say I have class on the exact time, and ask what time others have class on.
- Jobs
- Learn how to ask what they do, where they work at, how do they like their jobs. I will learn at least ten job names. Learn what I would like to do, and where I would like to work at.
- Weather
- Learn how to tell others today’s weather, tomorrow’s forecast. Learn words of different weather types, such as windy, sunny, raining, cloudy, and windy. I will also learn how to express my personal feeling on different weather type.
- Learn classroom/life survival language
Reading about Filipino culture is interesting because it mentions so many aspects of my own culture that I don't pay attention to anymore. One of the articles I read mentioned eyebrow raising, which I find amusing because I realize that I do express myself through raised eyebrows a lot. I'm not sure if that's a universal and normal way to signify confusion, perplexity, annoyance or even just to say hello in most cultures but I know I do it often. "Laughter may convey pleasure or embarrassment; it is commonly used to relieve tension" is another thing Filipinos do, and I know I am guilty of this habit because as my dad always mentions, I end most of my sentences with laughter. Maybe it's a nervous tick I have, or maybe that's just a part of my personality and cultural upbringing but I do take things more lightheartedly than most. Perhaps I even laugh in the most inopportune moments but habits are hard to break. Time wise, I think it really depends on the individual, or a person's upbringing as the article was talking about. Generally however, Filipinos tend to be late, and most don't adhere strictly to schedules. However, my family has a lot of fiery Spanish blood running through our veins and I was raised to be punctual and polite. It's very interesting to me, reading so much about Filipino culture, and seeing the many similarities and differences that plays out in my life, especially after moving to the United States where I've blended my Filipino roots with a dash of an American upbringing. One habit that really sets us apart from other cultures though is the fact that we use our lips/mouths to point to things, rather than using our index fingers. It's a funny habit and seeing how other non-FIlipinos react to it is pretty funny because they're expecting a more direct way of pointing at something, not realizing that our lips are doing all the work.
After reading the Figuring Foreigners Out, I consider Koreans are collectivists, uses non-verbal communication or body languages such as bows, and use indirect communication. Koreans only touch someone who is a relative or close friend, and would consider a personal violation to touch, hug, patting or back slapping a stranger or elder. Koreans are family-oriented. There is an obvious hierarchy within the family or corporation where the juniors should always respect the seniors, use formal and polite vocabularies, bow to elders or seniors when greeting and leaving, and always pass and receive objects with right hand supported by the left hand or with both hands.
After analyzing the readings and understanding what I know of Indian culture and the Hindi language, Hindi speakers are a collectivist group. The family is the identity of self and everyone is part of a group and has their own role in that family. There are not many different meanings in India that are different than America. For a third world country, India is one of the few countries where English is spoken fairly well and broadly among the subcontinent. India is definitely a polychronic country when it comes to time. There is always time, and Indians are notoriously late. Everything is rescheduled and time is limitless when it comes to Indians. Having to wait is a normal thing in India, and I have had to witness this on countless occasions. The locus of control in India is external. Until very recently, Indians operated under the caste system in which it was very hard for someone to mobilize between the classes. Instead, hard work was not rewarded with advantages in social class. This is the dichotomy between India( Hindi speakers) and America.
In the article “How we analyse meaning,” Crystal writes “the term words is used in ways that obscure the study of meaning,” “the term word is useless for the study of idioms, which are also units of meaning,” and “the word has in any case been appropriate for use everywhere in linguistic study-in the field of grammar, where it is an important concept in both syntax and morphology.”
Crystal accurately points out the essence and confusion of the term words. Crystal describes that the same word can have different meaning due to different wordings, the context where the word is under, the situation when the word is expressed and the person who is using the word. This knowledge will warm me to be cautious when using words especially in Korea culture. Korea has multiple levels of formality, thus it is extremely important to recognize when and how to use words. This knowledge will also encourage me to learn a more comprehensive way of how a word can be used differently.
Korean culture is represented as hierarchical, collective and harmony-oriented. Politeness and hierarchy is very important to Koreans, and the hierarchy is explicit in the Korean language. Different language systems needed to be used, when you are talking with various persons. Usually, the older person, the more social status they have. There are a lot of emphasis places on sharing drinks and meals, although some of the older traditions have relaxed in recent years. The young need to wait for the oldest person to sit down before the young take a seat at the table. Before eating, especially at someone’s home, it is polite to say that you are looking forward to the meal. In Korean, people say Jalmukesumneda. (I will eat well) At the beginning of meal, the young also need to wait for the oldest person to lift their spoon or chopsticks first before you start eating.
My earliest memory of learning language comes back to my primary school, and English was taught in a formal way with strong emphasis on learning the structure and grammar, building up knowledge of new vocabulary and doing a lot of exercises during primary and junior high school, like translating Chinese to English. I paid little attention on speaking and communicating in English with other persons. The learning method is basically provided with theoretical frameworks, logical rationale and rules. During the international high school, I tried to stress on listening and speaking with other people. I realized that communicating with native English speaker is the most efficient way to learn language, and what you studied in classes are applied to the real scenario in the life. For having more practice on English, I got used to watching American drama and listening English song without subtitle so that I can focus on listening. For me, the aim of studying language is to communicate and integrate in local community; it is necessary to get deep understanding about the local culture and custom. For example, through watching drama, people can get the fundamental idea about what the city looks like in different countries, and what the living habit they have and so on.
I am the auditory learner, and I can sound out and spell the strange vocabulary based on the whole sentence. Listening and talking with native speaker is the way to learn different aspects of language. For instance, the raising-falling tones represent the different meaning. Evaluated the learning method before, I dislike instruction which seems rigid and didactic, being told what to do, what to think, how to do it or what do you think. Therefore, self-directed language is what I pursuit. I can establish the learning plan and set the goal for this semester. It will be quite confident and pleasant after achieving the goal. For the goal of this semester, I prefer the part of communicating and listening (novice-medium). Throughout this semester, I am looking forward to handling the basic conversation, and then I am looking forward to travel to Korea with my friends in the future. Getting confidence from speaking Korean can motivate me to continue study the complicate grammar and writing.
Expanding learning activities is to increase the motivation in foreign language learning. Motivation has traditionally considered an independent variable, which impact the time length of studying language, the expected grade, and whether I will continue to study the language after this semester. I think the interests is the important clue to go deep into high level of Korean, watching fun drama and listening music is the efficient way for me to combine lecture studies in the classes and entertainment in the leisure time.
“It is crucial to look at different languages. If we restrict our view to just one language--our own--we will never truly understand the distinction between sense and reference, because it is natural to think that ‘our’ way of talking about the world is the only one, or the most natural one. It is only when we study or learn a foreign language, and realize that other people see things differently, that we become aware of how arbitrary the relationship is between words and entities or concepts."
This quote struck a chord with me because it answers part of this larger, worldly, big picture question I have about the way people function. As a sociology major, I have always been interested in people, specifically, individuals and their role in societies and vice versa. The things people are interested in, why they do the things they do, the social institutions and cultures that shape preferences and opinions-these are all topics that I never thought could connect to language. Language is such a powerful tool that I know I take for granted, and though I've always been interested in learning as many words in as many languages as possible, I know I've never taken real initiative to learning and sticking to one particular language. But in reading the quote above, I discovered that I can incorporate my love for studying societies and people into learning (or re-learning/enhancing) Tagalog. Delving into this goal I've made for myself, I feel, will give me a deeper appreciation for my own culture and really understand where I've come from, and where I am today.
The readings helped understand how to learn a language for myself and how to succeed in creating a system for my brain to process languages. Vocabulary is an important part to learning a language; it gives the sense of other words in that language and helps to understand motions and actions. Putting vocabulary into sentences allows me to "make sense" of the vocabulary word. So when I am learning Hindi, I should try learning through vocabulary first and then start working on grammar. I am going to learn by categorizing different words, which allows me to make connections between words, enabling me to learn Hindi faster because I am analyzing these words as one category.
I found out I am a reading/writing type of learner, so by compartmentalizing words written by category, my sense of vocabulary in Hindi is bound to grow tremendously. Reading about the dominant part of the brain, I realized that I am a left hemisphere dominant person; I categorize well and process information well, one of the things needed for language learning.
There seem to be two parts of learning languages that I enjoy - the first is simply the ability to communicate with others in a way that can at times feel more "personal". I think this is because of use of words, phrases or even full conversations in a language that the other person can speak as a way of experiencing a commonality between us, and the acknowledgment that this commonality is not universal for all people. The second reason I enjoy learning languages is due to the theoretical aspect - learning the rules and methods of conjugation, sentence structure etc. From doing the multiple intelligence survey and looking at the FIRE model, this second reason makes a lot of sense. I had verbal/linguistic and logical and as my top two "intelligences", which relates directly to the structural and methodical approach to learning grammatical rules. Though I felt that I associated with all four of the categories, I always associated strongly with boxes in any category that related to the enjoyment of learning as well as boxes regarding systematic, graphical, structural and logical thinking.
I have used this sort of approach every time I begin learning a new language. For me, to begin to feel confident in the language, I want to know the grammar rules very well, such as sentence structure and verb conjugation. However this approach has only proven successful for me to reach a very specific type of "proficiency" in any language, being that I can create/say basic sentences with extreme ease but cannot use the variety of linguistic abilities necessary to even mimic more nuanced ways of speaking in the language. For example, aside from English, I speak Spanish the best. I can have long conversations discussing many topics with minimal hesitation when forming sentences etc., but the way I form sentences do not necessarily mimic the way a native speaker word phrase the same thing - my phrasing is very rudimentary and rigid in structure - I will almost always use the exact same sentence structure for any phrase of the given tense I am using. Though I am happy that I am able to easily create basic sentences in most of the languages I can speak, I feel that this approach to language learning has limited the ability to speak more "naturally" (except for those cases where it is natural to use rudimentary sentence structures.) I think a way to improve upon this while accommodating for my learning style (reading/writing and audio) would be to make more of a conscious effort in not only understanding the logical meaning what a native speaker is saying/has written, but to make a conscious effort in analyzing how they said what they said, and become familiar with the different ways the same meaning can be expressed.
I started learning English when I was in the first grade of Elementary School. By the time of my third grade, I was way behind most of my classmates in English class. This triggered my mother to order a series of English tapes and CDs so that she could play them for me every morning when I wake up and every night before I go to bed. After two months of constantly listening to English tapes, my English listening skills improved dramatically. I was also able to pick up words and sentences, as well as memorizing vocabularies more easily. From this experience, I realize that in order to learn Korean efficiently, I have to expose myself into the Korean-language environment. Thus, I will listen to Korean radio or watch Korean drama for at least an hour a day.
I have been identified as a visual learner by the Learning Style Test in which suggests me to use symbols, charts, and arrangements to organize learning notes, draw and redraw images in different ways to enhance learning, and eventually practice turning visuals back to words. In addition, I dislike strict instructions on how to learn languages, thus, I will also take the Rational model of the FIRE model. I will learn the big picture concepts and work towards particular application, pursue “what-if” questions and answers to expand exploration and understanding, and explore interesting topics that inspire systematic and cause-and-effect thinking. I will also provide myself “open-ended tests which requires reflection on what I have learned.
In expanding learning activities, I will take useful advises from “12 Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time.” First, I will learn 300 most common words from memrise.com because as Tim Feriss wrote that “20% of effort” can help language learner achieve “80% comprehension in a language”. Then, I will learn the most common conversations from language partner and from YouTube. I will also search for the common words that was imported and transformed from China to ease my learning. Next, I will constantly listen to Tuneln.com radios, watch Korean drama, and cultural television shows to put myself in a correct circumstance. I will also practice speaking with Korean-study partner, with other Korean learning classmates, as well as practicing in italki.com.
In addition, I will create concrete goals for every week and set specific deadlines so that I can realize my study progress and evaluate effectively and decide on what else I should do to promote my Korean learning. My ultimate goal for this semester is to be able to communicate with a random Korean for at least five minutes.
In sum, I will take suggestions from the learning Style Test result, the FIRE Model, and the “12 Rules for Learning a Foreign Language in Recorded Time.” I will try to learn the most common words, conversations, put myself into a right circumstance, and keep practicing speaking.
Learning Journal #1
The readings helped me begin to try and construct an efficient way of learning for myself. Learning about the brain and its dominant sides helped me realize that I might be better at categorizing and creating logical organizations instead of possibly recognizing global patterns (which I think I need for learning a foreign language). The most important thing I learned was that one of the best ways of learning is by experiencing the activity through several ways-- through giving my body different feedbacks that can be received through different senses. I should not only hear the language, but I should try and speak the language for myself switching back and forth-- thus switching between senses of action and listening. This constant feedback loop will help me learn.
When in the Global studio I mostly looked for online resources; this way I would be able to use them while in my room as well. I was able to find MANY interactive videos that taught basic Urdu greetings and conversational language (which is exactly what I am hoping to achieve as my end goal). One of my favorites was an online cite that asked questions and gave quizzes in between "lessons." I tried out the first Chapter, which was all about introductions. Another was a video which reviewed common Urdu phrases and greetings. They repeated their pronunciation and also showed their spelling. This was the most helpful because seeing how they were spelled helped me create a mental visualization, which in turn helps me learn seeing that I have found that I am mostly a visual learner.
Cultural Post #2
This week I was able to meet with my Language partner twice, in which we were able to discuss formality and informality in the Urdu language. I found out that, according to him, Urdu for the most part is not so formal WHEN SPOKEN. However, in writing it is extremely formal. Seeing that my goal for this course will not be to learn how to write, or the alphabet, I chose to focus on the differences found when speaking the language. We mostly spoke about Pronouns, and how pronouns change depending on who is being addressed.Unlike in English, but similar to my native language Spanish, pronouns hold different formalities. "You" in urdu can be either "tum" "tu" or "ap." Tu would only be used when talking to a close friend, as it would be considered offensive to refer to an elder, or person of higher rank as "tu." Tum is neutral, and then "ap" is the most formal. It is interesting that in Urdu, three different levels exist-- all increasing in rank/authority.
No doubt, we assume the physical basis of language in the lips, the tongue, and the ear. In fact, language is kind of brain stuff, and the language organ is the mind. The brain’s hemispheres have its own role. Generally the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body, and the left hemisphere controls the right side of the body. The natural ability for acquiring language normally diminished rapidly with aging. Handling one language is self-monitored. The information received from the ear other people’s movement of mouth, and internal sensation generated by different organs of the body. For improving the skills of learning language, I will combine listening, writing and speaking together. For example, when I try to remember or the vocabulary, I will speak the words or sentences to my self in order to strength memory.
I am a native speak in Chinese and can speak fluent English and basic German. Now I want to expand to my 4th language-Korean. What I find most interesting about learning a language is the feeling of accumulation. You start from zero and by practice, you are surprised with what you gained. I had two study abroad experiences which was quite useful for me to learn a language. When I was placed into the environment, I was able to push myself to learn more to communicate with others. I found myself learn things quickly when I talk and listen. Admittedly, writing and reading formalized my language learning systematically.
Tasks to complete after this semester:
1. Master the basic alphabet and basic greetings ans self-introduction.
2. Learn enough vocabulary so that I can communicate with people when I travel to Korea.
3. Learn from the Korean dramas and films to understand more about the culture.
4. Be able to write simple articles
