State your learning goals for this week and how you went about accomplishing these goals.
My last learning goal consisted of practicing my communication abilities with Bangladeshi people at the Pohela Boishak (Bengali New Year’s) party. I was able to
Read more…Attitudes about Family in the Target Culture
This week we discussed the role of the family in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh family is highly valued and the culture greatly revolves around family ties. Older individuals and those who are outside of one’s
Read more…The phonetic inventory of Turkish, while in some respects similar to English, is best described as a vowel harmony. I’ve mentioned it before, but vowel harmony means vowels are either front (i, e, ö, and ü) or back (ı, a, o, and u), and rounded (ö, ü
Read more…How many new words have you learned in your target language? How did you learn them? Do you have realistic goals for your acquisition of vocabulary?
I have learned hundreds of new words in Bengali. I was able to learn these words by using Quizlet
Read more…How have you organized your self-directed learning plan, and what have you learned so far? How will your studies allow you to investigate your target language and culture more deeply?
Currently, most of my learning plan focuses on learn
Read more…Reflect on how knowing a language's history can help you learn the language. To what family does your language belong? What sounds, words or structures exemplify periods of contact with other cultures?
This week I spoke of the history of the Bengali
Read more…I decided to begin my Quechua language learning experience by learning common phrases such as the greetings, introductions, and basic questions. My uncle, my language partner, decided to challenge me on during this first lesson and also taught me the
Read more…Reflect on your language learning so far. How would you describe the relationship between understanding the target culture and target language? What do you need to improve your communicative competence? What other kinds of competence from the reading
Read more…This week we learned and corrected common grammatical errors that even fluent Korean speakers make. sdlc%203.png
Read more…After listening to other’s learning plans, I realized I was probably biting off more than I could chew in terms of the tasks I wanted to undertake. I think staring off with simpler tasks to acclimate myself with Turkish will probably be the best rout
Read more…How would you qualify or describe different aspects of your target culture? Reflect and your own experiences and expectations of the culture in question. How does your culture reflect various qualitative Hofstede dimensions of culture explored in cla
Read more…This artifact has its own section in Bolivian markets and is also worn by vendors. During the winter, people wear hats that cover their ears and are made of alpaca fur. Similar to the word, aguayo, I had always thought this word was Spanish, but I le
Read more…Second Cultural Post: Formality and Informality in Target Language
After speaking to my language partner I learned that Bengali could be spoken in informal and formal language. Informal language is often used with friends or those who are very close
Read more…When given the opportunity, I have always tried my best to learn a new language. Growing up I had a lot of Indian friends who spoke Hindi. I watched a lot of Bollywood movies and overheard a lot of their conversations with their families, all which f
Read more…I took AP and IB Psych in high school, so these readings were a good refresher for me, especially when learning about language. Although I had this background, I think it was valuable to have this reading because I learned new things about how/where
Read more…One significant difference between Turkish and English is sentence structure, or syntax. In English, we structure sentences in a pretty strict Subject-Verb-Object order, whereas the Turkish structure is Subject-Object-Verb. Another interesting differ
Read more…These were the results I got from my multiple intelligences and learning style assessments.
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Read more…In the Korean culture, respect for elders is a necessity in the culture. This respect is displayed in various ways, including bowing (인사) when greeting elders, using a different form of language that shows respect (commonly adding “-요, -합니다, -세요” to
Read more…“Figuring Foreigners Out” and Hofstede’s Dimensions identify the several spectrums that define cultures and help people compare them. They both talk about values that differentiate cultures, like individualism versus collectivism and nonverbal commu
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