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As a person growing up learning more than one language at the same time, language has always been a challenging but exciting experience for me. I am fluent in English, Chinese and Malay because I grew up in a country with diverse cultures. Learning different languages has allow me to be exposed to new perspectives and knowledge. When I found out that GKS requires me to take an extra year to learn Korean, I was thrilled because I can spend that year fully focused on learning the language. I began to search for ways to learn the language seriously in 2022 and I was able to find a program offered by King Sejong Language Institute that provides an 8-week online classes to teach the Introduction to Korean in July 2022, I successfully brought my friend to attend the classes too. In that introduction classes, I got know Hangul and what they are, but it was challenging to learn a new language just in 8 weeks. After that program, I found a person on social media who learnt Korean and she offered people all her learning materials, so I was able to get a lot of Korean learning materials like textbooks from SNU, KU, Ewha, Yonsei, TOPIK practice books, vocabularies, and grammar books. As I was starting my final undergraduate year, hence I was only able to practice in my free time. In January 2023, I enrolled as a student of Sungkyunkwan University Winter School for their Intensive Korean Language Course that spanned over 10 days straight. It was very eye-opening as the lessons were very enriching. I find that some of the Korean pronunciations and their writings are similar to Chinese which allows me to learn them faster and easier. As for English, I received an IELTS score Band 8 out of 9 but I still have occasional inaccuracies that need to be improved.
After arriving in Korea, besides taking the lessons in the language year, I will spend more time and practice more with the materials I received from my friend and school. In addition, I will find a Korean Buddy program that allows me to converse with a Korean and join study groups to improve my speaking skills. I will try my best to obtain at least TOPIK 4 during the language year and continue study for TOPIK 6 after the program. I hope to find and join some Korean culture groups or activities to practice conversing Korean with locals. At the same time, although I might spend lesser time on English as I am more familiar with it, I will read more materials like newspaper, research papers or novels to improve the occasional mistakes.
GKS-G Language Study Plan
As a person growing up learning more than one language at the same time, language has always been a challenging but exciting experience for me. I am fluent in English, Chinese and Malay because I grew up in a country with diverse cultures. Learning different languages has allow me to be exposed to new perspectives and knowledge. When I found out that GKS requires me to take an extra year to learn Korean, I was thrilled because I can spend that year fully focused on learning the language. I began to search for ways to learn the language seriously in 2022 and I was able to find a program offered by King Sejong Language Institute that provides an 8-week online classes to teach the Introduction to Korean in July 2022, I successfully brought my friend to attend the classes too. In that introduction classes, I got know Hangul and what they are, but it was challenging to learn a new language just in 8 weeks. After that program, I found a person on social media who learnt Korean and she offered people all her learning materials, so I was able to get a lot of Korean learning materials like textbooks from SNU, KU, Ewha, Yonsei, TOPIK practice books, vocabularies, and grammar books. As I was starting my final undergraduate year, hence I was only able to practice in my free time. In January 2023, I enrolled as a student of Sungkyunkwan University Winter School for their Intensive Korean Language Course that spanned over 10 days straight. It was very eye-opening as the lessons were very enriching. I find that some of the Korean pronunciations and their writings are similar to Chinese which allows me to learn them faster and easier. As for English, I received an IELTS score Band 8 out of 9 but I still have occasional inaccuracies that need to be improved.
After arriving in Korea, besides taking the lessons in the language year, I will spend more time and practice more with the materials I received from my friend and school. In addition, I will find a Korean Buddy program that allows me to converse with a Korean and join study groups to improve my speaking skills. I will try my best to obtain at least TOPIK 4 during the language year and continue study for TOPIK 6 after the program. I hope to find and join some Korean culture groups or activities to practice conversing Korean with locals. At the same time, although I might spend lesser time on English as I am more familiar with it, I will read more materials like newspaper, research papers or novels to improve the occasional mistakes.
