Mallory CP #5
Friday, January 26
2:30pm-3:30pm
I met with Jun for the second time and we reserved a study room in the Education Building, where his graduate research office is. He seemed very happy to meet with me again, and I enjoy that there doesn't seem to be a barrier of discomfort when we meet. We spent basically the entire session talking about the Korean language. Last time we met, we agreed that our meetings would consist mostly of him teaching me Korean and about some of the customs in South Korea. He says that just the conversation with me is what is most helpful for him, so I shouldn't worry about preparing any materials or topics to cover. For this session, he prepared a document that had 6 questions that people tend to ask someone in South Korea when they first meet. He had the questions written in English, as well as Korean, and he also included a breakdown of the pronunciation in english so that I could learn how they sound in Korean. We went through the list of questions, which contained topics such as age, hobbies, where we live, etc, and both answered them. This helped us get to know more about each other and our interests. After this, he showed me the Korean alphabet, and we studdied that for a little while and he helped me with pronunciations. We then went back to the first document, and he had me try to say some of the questions in Korean. I think overall this was a great session, and even though we spent a lot of time working on Korean as opposed to English, he still had to speak to me in English in order to explain things to me and teach me, which helped him work on his English skills along side me working on my Korean. I think we will continue with this type of system for our meetings, because by the end we both felt like we really benefited a lot from the conversation, and both had a lot to gain from each other.
2:30pm-3:30pm
I met with Jun for the second time and we reserved a study room in the Education Building, where his graduate research office is. He seemed very happy to meet with me again, and I enjoy that there doesn't seem to be a barrier of discomfort when we meet. We spent basically the entire session talking about the Korean language. Last time we met, we agreed that our meetings would consist mostly of him teaching me Korean and about some of the customs in South Korea. He says that just the conversation with me is what is most helpful for him, so I shouldn't worry about preparing any materials or topics to cover. For this session, he prepared a document that had 6 questions that people tend to ask someone in South Korea when they first meet. He had the questions written in English, as well as Korean, and he also included a breakdown of the pronunciation in english so that I could learn how they sound in Korean. We went through the list of questions, which contained topics such as age, hobbies, where we live, etc, and both answered them. This helped us get to know more about each other and our interests. After this, he showed me the Korean alphabet, and we studdied that for a little while and he helped me with pronunciations. We then went back to the first document, and he had me try to say some of the questions in Korean. I think overall this was a great session, and even though we spent a lot of time working on Korean as opposed to English, he still had to speak to me in English in order to explain things to me and teach me, which helped him work on his English skills along side me working on my Korean. I think we will continue with this type of system for our meetings, because by the end we both felt like we really benefited a lot from the conversation, and both had a lot to gain from each other.
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