This was my last meeting with Soongyu but I did not know it at the time. She had emailed me saying that she was going through some personal problems and would not be able to meet with me for tutoring sessions anymore.
Anyway, I decided to start this session with a review of the minimal pairs we had worked on previously. Considering it had been a few days since the pronunciation lesson, I wanted to test Soongyu's memory. We started the same as the last time. I read the pair and she would repeat me. She did have trouble remembering how certain words are supposed to sound. Once we had gone through all the pairs, I asked her to read through them again on her own. She had forgotten the correct pronunciation for a few of them despite having just gone over them. She decided to use the record function on her phone for these words. She recorded my voice and then hers as well as my explanation of each sound within the word. Hopefully that was helpful for her. Like I said, this was our last session so I was never able to follow up about the success of this.
This review took slightly longer than I had anticipated so I had to scrap my plan for the rest of the session and work on something less time consuming. We worked on writing exercises. We talked about direction words and how to give directions to someone as well as how to ask for directions and understand them. Soongyu already understood the vocabulary for this but when I asked her to write directions from one place on campus to another, I noticed a very interesting mistake (one that I found in my other Korean tutee as well). Instead of using measurements of distance, she used measurements of time. For example, "Walk down this road for 5 minutes and take a left at the yellow building." I explained to her why using time is unclear and why a measure of distance is much more concrete when giving directions.
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