Hello everyone! My name is Steve Kim. This is not my legal name, but still, everyone calls me by this name. I am a psychology major. I am from Seoul, South Korea. In other words, English and other Romance languages are second languages for me. It is nervous to read stories with a language I have never used for half of my lifetime, and yet also excited to expand my perspective towards the world. Hope it goes well.<\/p>\n
There are a few things I expect to get away with from this course. The different styles used in modern and post-modern literature are one thing I want to learn. I personally have a deep interest in literature — or simply, I like reading in general. It would be great to learn different styles used in literature from the 20th and 21st Century.<\/p>\n
The second thing I am expecting in this course is to learn the culture of the so-called “Romance World”. I used to study in South Korea until 9th grade and moved abroad to study afterwards. It was a pleasure to learn and find out the commonalities and differences in cultures and cultural areas. For example, I believe that “language” contains the crucial part of cultural images. I have been privileged to learn this for my whole academic journey, and now I am here to learn about the literature written in Romance languages. I think it is an opportunity to open my eyes not only to the literature per se but also to the culture of the completely different world I came from.<\/p>\n
The last thing is that I want to challenge myself and grow my ability to read and analyse the story written in English. Again, I am an international student with using English as a second language. Although I can read English book — which is no wonder and compulsory for me to study in English– it is always a struggle to read fiction as it requires to understanding fully on the culture. I was always behind the people who were studying the same thing and had to spend approximately triple times more than others.<\/p>\n
However, on the other hand, this challenge makes me grow in many ways, and learn many different things more deeply as I am spending time for it. This is the reason why I want to put myself in the challenge. Indeed, I have to search a dictionary countless times to read one story which would take longer times. However, it is not a meaningless time. I can learn languages, cultures, and many valuable and interesting stories provided in this course.<\/p>\n
It would be a hard journey, but I am ready to enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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