NUR FATIHAH BINTI ABDUL RAHMAN, A174302, 24 JULY 2022

 

2.    What have you done?

 

I started my part-time job at Levi's The Curve 2 weeks ago. On my first day at work, I started on the night shift, which was 5 PM to 10 PM. The store manager introduced me to the staff and store layout. He brought me to the backroom and gave me a LEVIS ID card and made a thumbprint for my attendance at work. They taught me how to fold jeans and shirts nicely. I didn’t really talk to customers as I didn’t really know their items and products, but the staff there were slowly trying to teach me about their product. I did help the customer by just giving the size that they wanted.

 

3.    Points to remember from week 1!

 

Points to remember are to always thumbprint in and out of work. Remembering their jeans and code name is a must for LEVI’s workers. I have to get used to knowing body size and image to give the right size for the customers.

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4.    Your feelings & thoughts

 

So far I have felt so good, even though working is tiring since you have to stand up all the way until closing time. But by making myself busy with folding and cleaning up the stores, the time will go by so quickly. I think I have made the right decision to work at LEVI’S. It was fun to know the different types of jeans, cut, material, and others.  It was fun knowing new people with different background at work. Working as a team really made job easier and faster. 

 

5.    Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?

 

My difficulties would be in remembering all the code names for the jeans. For example, straight men's jeans use code 501 while 511 is the code name for slim-fit jeans. For women, they have different code names. For example, 710 is for super skinny jeans. So when a regular customer came in and asked for jeans using their code name, it was difficult for me to help them because I'd have to walk around the store looking for the jeans they've mentioned. I coped with it by asking for help from other part-timers that had been working for months in LEVIS. They helped me so much throughout my first two weeks.

 

6.    2 words to describe elective posting progress so far

 

Fun and exciting 

 

7.     Your plan for next week (Week 2)

My plan for next week is to remember the jeans and their code name, as this will help to assist customers so much better and efficiently. All I can do is try to read the label while folding the jeans so I will get used to it better. I also plan to assist and talk to customers more often to build my confidence. This will help to boost up the sale at LEVI’S. 

 

2. What have you done?

I started my online Intermediate Korean Lesson Elective Posting on Coursera on 18th July 2022. It requires me to take 3 lessons per week and I managed to fulfil all the targeted lessons on week 1.  Since I am taking the intermediate lesson, this course is more focusing on how to construct the sentences in a correct and understandable way and the paragraph that I need to thoroughly understand is way much harder compared to the beginner level that I used to take 2 years ago. From the lessons, I learnt about how to use the noun (라고 하다 - used when you talked about what you heard from other people, also can be used to introduce yourself. For example, ‘저는 파라힌이라고 하다’ which means I am (called) Farahin). Next, I learnt about the verb -고 있다 (is used when certain behaviour is still going on continuously, so if I can give an example for it is “저는 지금 한국어를 공부하고 있어요 - I am learning Korean at this moment”. After completed the whole lessons, I need to take the quizzes regarding the noun/verbs that I have learnt and fortunately, I managed to pass the quizzes with 100% points for the first week. in addition, I also need to complete the worksheet and mark the answer by myself with the provided answers. I am glad that I only have one mistake to correct.

 

3. Points to remember from week 1!

Noun 라고 하다 - can be used to introduce anything, I need to practice using this noun when constructing simple sentences

Verb 고 있다 - behaviour continuously going on 

 

4. Your feelings & thoughts 

Since I was focusing more to medical school subjects the previous months, it is a bit challenging for me to start and regain back all the knowledge that I used to have back then. I also feel a bit disappointed because I used to have Korean Pen Pal friends on Kakaotalk last year but I was too busy with other things and just abandoned my Korean learning. I am truly grateful that this elective posting allows me to start back my Korean learning on track and I have enough time to find new Pen Pal, make new notes and practice to translate Korean Idol’s Vlive without any worries of my medical school academic coo curriculum since I have passed all the postings. I also have a thought to improve my Korean by writing an essay  starting from the second week to see which part that I lack and need improvement.

 

5. Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?

I think there are not much difficulties as I am still in week 1 and the course started with an easy route first followed by more difficult lessons in the future. But, I do have this small problem to understand what Korean people are saying when they are talking especially when they talk too fast or using slang since Korean Gen Z or Millennial generations love to use slang words these days. 

 

6. 2 words to describe elective posting progress so far

Worthy and challenging 

 

7. Your plan for next week (Week 2)

My plan for next week is to start reading Korean Manhwa/Webtoon in Korean instead of English so that I can be much more familiar with the slang words since those comic authors love to use slang words in their comic writings. Next, I will start to write an essay consist of two paragraphs and ask my neighbour which is very good in Korean to assist my essay. 

A174126

24.7.2022

2. For week 1, i have learned a lot. In this course I get to know The Basics Strokes Number, The Derivatives and the Tool in chinese characters! I also get to know how to write in Chinese as this course guide me one by one how to pronounce and write. Now i know what women, parents, child, teachers, students and various of antonym in chinese and able to write and read it too!

3. What i need to remember is the Basics Strokes Numbers as it repeatedly been used. I also need to understands and know each character of the words as it is the foundation on how to write it.

4. I felt so much happy as I always wanted to learn to write and speak in chinese since I was a kid. My grandpa side are all Chinese and listening to them speaking make me curious on what are the conversation was about. Now i get to know little bit of it and understand some of it make me feel happy!!!

5. There are a lot of hard times when learning this course because everytime finish the class, there will be quizes and some of the words I still could not understand yet. Thus I will reach out my some of my Chinese friends to help me.

6. Fun and exciting

7. For next week, I will be focusing on Grammatic characters and some nouns.

A173971

24/7/2022

Throughout the first week of learning Korean language, i have learnt the basic Korean alphabets or also known as hangeul which are basically their vowels and consonants. After studying the alphabets, i also managed to answer some quizzes that the course has provided and it was fun.

Points to remember 

Although some of the words may have different spelling, they might have similar pronunciation!

Feelings and thoughts 

I always loved to watch Korean dramas and by joining this course, i believe that i get to enjoy them even more. 

Any difficulties

I think the first week lesson is quite easy to understand, but next lesson will be much tougher

2 words to describe ep 

Exciting and enjoyable

Your plan for next week

Continue the second week lesson :)

- I learnt the introduction for mandarin language which includes learning about the different tones used in speaking mandarin. The lecturer taught me how to speak and read mandarin in pinyin form. There are 4 different tones and even a same word but with different tones give a different meaning. I also memorize how to introduce ourselves in mandarin. 

Nĭ jiào shén me míng zi (What is your name)

Nǐ shì nǎ ɡuó rén (Where are you from)

Nǐ shì xuésheng ma (Are you a student)

Lǎoshī (Teacher)

Nĭ xuéxí shénme (What do you study)

Hànyu (Chinese)

- Points from week 1: Practice how to say the tones

- I am excited and I think that if I do well and put extra effort, I maybe can speak basic Chinese later on.

- I always hear that learning mandarin is hard so I am quite concern whether I can achieve my main reason of learning mandarin which is to be able to speak with my patients later on. To cope with this, I must put extra efforts in learning and memorizing this language

- Excitement, Starting

- Next week I will learn more on communicating in relation with time.