kdramabinger posted: " I got a A on my written and oral midterm! Yippee! For the written midterm, I got a 99.5/100. She didn't give back the test, so it's killing me to know which questions I got 0.5 points knocked off! For the oral midterm, her comment was, "아주 잘 했어요. Very na"
I got a A on my written and oral midterm! Yippee! For the written midterm, I got a 99.5/100. She didn't give back the test, so it's killing me to know which questions I got 0.5 points knocked off! For the oral midterm, her comment was, "아주 잘 했어요. Very natural!" = Really well done!
I needed her feedback to feel better and that I am doing well. I had a little of a bummer interaction yesterday that I am letting get to me too much. It's reminding me of the Sensitive Cell in the Korean drama I am watching on Viki this week, Yumi's Cells. It's a similar concept to the Disney movie, Inside Out, where her feelings and emotions inside her brain are animated. I tried a few Korean words on a native Korean speaking friend and he wasn't very receptive and even made a few negative comments. I know I shouldn't let it get to me, but it totally dampened my excitement I was having in the progress of this course. It made me not want to try my Korean out on any other native speakers! But I remind myself, I also had a positive interaction with another native speaker last week who told me she was impressed and she could understand me. So, I am just telling myself that I'm not the problem. He needs to not be so critical of someone who is in week 10 of trying to learn a new difficult language!! Sheesh, of course I don't have the vocab, accent and pronunciation down perfect! If I did, I would have been a polyglot by this stage of my life! So phooey to the negativity in my life. I really am enjoying this class, it's one of the few things in life right now that I am finding fun, exciting and challenging.
Anyways, I digress. On to what I learned this past week! After two weeks of slowing it down, she stepped on the gas again! This week was focusing on counting and numbers in BOTH number systems. Ay-ya, my brain can't handle this switching back and forth! I remember when I tried to learn Japanese a few years ago the counting was the hardest for me (I mean really they have counters for small objects, flat objects, large objects, sushi objects!). That's when my brain tapped out and gave up on Japanese. Please brain, overcome this week so I can continue learning Korean!
Sino Korean Number System: Based off of Chinese. It is used for numeric numbers, dates, money, math and large numbers
Native Korean Number System: Used when counting things like items, animals, people, ages. Only used up to the number 99, then you need to switch back to Sino Korean.
With that in mind, we learned this week
Counting with Native Korean and the following counters: things (apples, books, etc…), people (friends, students, siblings), people honorific (grandmas, teacher), animals (dogs, cats), age
Counting with Sino Korean numbers so we can say the date now: Year, Month, Day format. I can tell my birthday. I can also count money in both won and dollar! I can also answer how much something costs.
The hardest part I'm finding with large numbers is that I'm used to reading numbers by the thousand (in other words, a break after 3 zeros). But in Korean, they count by 10,000 (a break after 4 zeros).
For example: I'm used to reading 250,000 as 250 thousands. But in Korean, they would read it as 25 ten-thousands. That's a level of math my brain can't quite handle! For now my teacher has us tackling reading large numbers like this:
Draw a line where the number breaks at 4 digits from the right.
Under the number, write the place value in Korean
On top of the number write the value of the number in Korean
Then read top to bottom. Do not pronounce the 만 (man) in the 10,000 place value or the 일 (il) in the ones place value
Then of course there is always an exception. So she went over how to read the number 111,111. Where you only say 일 (il) or the number 1 when it is in the last place of the unit of 4.
I can read it if the number is written in front of me like this, but I struggle if I have to produce a number off the top of my head without a visual!
Learning to read numbers just take a ton of practice. I am trying to read any number in Korean that I see. The other morning in morning rush hour commute, I was practicing reading the license plate numbers of all the cars around me. I got pretty good at reading 3 digit numbers! I know I need more practice with the larger numbers, especially the ones in the 100,000+ range which are more complicated to say.
On to week 11! 매일 한국어를 열심히 공부해요. (Everyday I study Korean diligently)
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