Korean Language Synthesis Essay

In United States, comparing to five years ago, more and more people are listening to Korean musics watching Korean dramas. In statistic, since 2009, there is a dramatically increased in the d more people are listening to Korean music. College students are not studying foreign languages as much as they were. Starting in 2009, there was a decreasing of seven percent of the college students stop taking foreign language classes. However, there are more college students are taking Korean. There was an increasing of forty-five percent of college students are taking Korean language classes between 2009 and 2013. The college students who are taking Korean language increases from 8,449 students to 12,229. The reason why many people want to learn Korean is because of the popularity of Korean
pop culture and Korean dramas (Chow). Mindfulness was important when I learned Korean. In recent days, there are many children in school are practicing mindfulness or meditation. In research, mindfulness can help students decrease anxiety and depression and it can also can improve their focusing and help them pay attention in classes (Anonymous).
When I was learning Korean, the most important thing that I needed to do for each each lesson was focusing. Sometimes, learning made me go through depression because I had to read so many times to understand each rules. When I learning new languages, Spanish or Korean, I needed to pay lots of attention because if I missed any informations, facts or important rules, I would be lost on the next section and I would have to learn everything again. I felt like if I do meditation or mindfulness before I started to learn Korean, it might help me relax, be more calm and starting to pay more attention. When I was still young, my father always said meditation is really good for your body and health. He always forced me to do it. Sometimes I it did it and sometimes I did not do it. After I grown up, I started to know, why my father wanted me to do meditation when I was young. Because it can benefits you in different ways. Another thing that is important when I was learning Korean was motivation. Motivation is a very important skill that I need to have when I was
learning Korean. To learn a language in a long period, the success is always depends on the motivation. Motivation is responsible for why we decided to do something, how long they are about to study for, and how hard they are going to study (Dornyei). My motivation is that I can travel to Korea and be able to communicate with the people in Korea one day in my life. About four years ago, I went to Korea for vacation. I knew some basic words from all the Korean dramas that I watched. But, when I tried to talk to them, the words were so hard to come out of my mouth. Actually, I tried to talk to woman, but she could not understand what I was talking about. I was so embarrassed. My sisters and my mom they also made fun of me. However, during the vacation, I heard so many words that I already knew that I learned from korean dramas. Everytime when I heard someone said a word that I already knew, I would be so proud of myself. This gave me a lot of motivation to learn Korean.