July 12, 2022

Hello to my passionate co-writers of this awesome site! How are you doing? I was all busy as usual and just this 8pm I attended a Korean class. When July enters I plan to never absent on this class, however, me and my BFF will be having a late celebration of Army Day on Friday so I think I cannot attend the 8pm class. Its been a while since me and my friends haven't seen each other so it is just right to dedicate some of my time to them.

Speaking of my class earlier, I love to be in that class because of how they pronounce words. The letter E sounds E, but there are other words that are sounds like, like O and eo. These letters are both O sounds in Korean. Not only that, the Hangeul itself makes me really force myself to memorize the characters . They only have few characters, vowels and consonants compare to Filipino alphabet but still this is very new to me. If one is trying to learn Korean language I advise you to learn the vowels ans consonants, memorize it by heart and know how to write it because everything starts with it.

Earlier, the topic is Korean Numbers. A lot of times I am hearing BTS on how they count numbers. "Hana, dul, set, net, da seot,..". Tonight I learned about it and it makes me happy. They have two number series, the Korean Numbers ans the Chinese Numbers. Korean Numbers only goes from 1-99, while Chinese Numbers, also known as Sino-Numbers, has 1 to 1 million. If you happen to know Korean or watching Korean series and you heard the words "il, I, Sam, sa, o, yuk..." those are Sino-numbers.

My problem is, it was fast. The teacher is really fast when it comes to teaching different points. I can't screen record the lesson because it affects the sound. Once I screenrecord it, the sound on my earbuds will be muted. I don't know why it happens.

I'm using a JBL earbuds. It has a good quality but is very sensitive to touch. I always mistaken touch it when I am insertingybhair on my ears when I am writing. Once it stops I need to tap it to signal pause or stop, and tap twice to continue. It really affects my mood because I lost a lot of times in class. I cannot go with the flow of what we are studying.

After class, I will re-write everything and it serves as my review of what we have learned. For every Korean class schedule I have, the class is only for 2 hours and I allot another hour to rewrite and review. Sometimes I lose 4 hours that I forgot I need to post an article here. This class and my slow ways of learning is eaten up my time.

I understand though, it is part of the sacrifices I need to do in order to learn. Actually it is kind of exciting because I learned new words everyday, that when I happen to hear it while watching Vlive or Korean drama, I know the words already. While studying it, I am training my ears for those Korean words I am learning everyday. Little by little I can adapt to it and I used it sometimes. I just need to practice more on pronunciation the right way.

As of now the challenge is, I can understand the Hangeul characters, I can write the romanization of it, but I don't know the translation of it, so I still use Google translate for double checking. Some are suggesting to use Papago because it is much better. I have text books to practice too, as it has test and at the back of the textbook are the answer. It makes me busy, it makes me excite dtp learn, but still I'm slow. How can I make it fast? I really don't know. For now, I appreciate my effort in learning it. It is difficult to me but I will find ways to make this more easier in the future class.

My deadline to myself, I need only to have 3 months to learn the basic then I will go to easy and intermediate. I can do this!! One day I will not use a translation while watching any Korean contents. I'm so excited.

Aja Aja fighting!!

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I don't know why I can't delete the words below so please set aside that one.

it serves as my review of what we have learned.