Learning Goals – Blog Assignment #6

Before coming to Korea I had little experience with written language.  I have always wanted to learn how to read and write Hangul but I never had the time to sit down and actually learn it.  After finishing all the lessons on Hangul in the program, I am proud to say I can recognize some words and read the language very slowly.  Sometimes I need reminders to what the characters are but for the majority of the time I can recognize and read the phonetics of the words.  I do not know enough vocabulary to know what it says but with only four lessons in Hangul I think I have made great improvement in my goals.   As for writing, I am still working on that.  Due to the lack of knowledge in vocabulary I still have to work on writing.  If you give me the phonetics, however, I could probably spell out the words.  I still have lots of things to learn and I plan on coming back to Korea so this is not the end of my studies.  One day, I wish to become a fluent speaker so through practicing reading, writing, and using Rosetta Stone, hopefully I would achieve that goal in the future.  As for right now, I am a really slow reader so my immediate goal while still in the country is to increase reading speeds a little more.  How I would go about doing that is reading more and more of the signs wherever I go.  Other than that I think this program has helped me achieve what I’ve always wanted to do.