Annyeonghaseo! (Hello!)
Over the past few weeks,
I've focused mainly on pronunciation of consonants and vowels as well as
learning some basic greetings. I’m getting better at being able to look at a
word and figure out how to say it. For me, pronunciation in Korean is difficult
because it is so different than English- I have to make a conscious effort to
remember some of the different rules (listening to audio lessons is a major
help).
I’m finding that I need
to delegate time outside of school to work on learning Korean. I’m still
incredibly excited about the whole thing, but some extra effort is going to
have to be made. I really can’t expect to become fluent in a language when I’m
only spending a couple hours a week on it, right? With the way I am going, it
would take forever. So I've set some more short term
goals for myself:
- · Practice
vocab with flashcards everyday
- · Spend
3 hours a week on the Living Language program
- · Listen
to K-pop or watch YouTube videos involving Korean every week
Hopefully this will keep
me engaged and productive in learning Korean!
I haven’t mentioned it
yet but one of my best friends is learning with me, so I've got moral
support in my journey! We’re constantly repeating
words we've learned or having simple conversations back and
forth with each other. The repetition obviously helps but the best part is
that only we know what we are saying. We may just be saying “hello” or “are you
doing well?”, but do our friends know that? Nope. Do we look like super cultured
individuals who can totally speak another language? Heck yeah.
I've also decided that
with each blog post that I do I will include a link to a 'song of the week.'
I've really been loving listening to Korean music and I'm here to share the love!
So here it is for this
week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWVz6Qls9O4
I'll try to mix it up as
well and include a variety of artists and styles!
On that note, I think I
will wrap up this post. It’s been a relatively productive past few weeks, but
with my new game plan I’m hoping to see things step up a bit!
“Those who know nothing
of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
― Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
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