For our last class, my language partner and I review most of our past lessons. We facetimed again for this lesson and after the beginning quiz portion, we review how to form sentences. I think that this is something I will work on more later on becau
Read more…I watched a Korean movie called “I Can Speak”. It was describing the relationship of a young man and an old grandma. The old grandma was known to be a bit stubborn and hot tempered. Little did people know, she was a “comfort woman”. During the Korean
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Read more…Reflect on your experiences as a language teacher and learning in this latest speed-dating workshop. What difficulties did you encounter?
I enjoyed the speed-dating workshop to learn other languages because it gave me brief glimpses into
Read more…The article about the function of our brain is a really interesting topic for me. I always hear people saying cerebral localization which means that each area of the brain to respond to a single behavioral ability. However, I have never known what th
Read more…This semester I wanted to polish my overall Korean skills. I wanted to focus deeply on history and culture. I hope to explore these topics through books, articles, and cultural artifacts such as movies. I hope to learn more about Korean history and d
Read more…I watched the movie Mustang, per Veli's request. It was hard to follow along, so I had to use subtitles, but I was proud of myself when I was able to pick out words I definitely wouldn't have known before. PHOTO-2018-10-27-16-57-49.jpg
Read more…Reflect on your experiences of (trying to) read and write in your target language. Are you bilingual? If so, would you agree with the arguments made in the two readings on bilingualism.
I do not read and write in Quechua because I have on
Read more…Describe the phonetic inventory of your target language. Are there sounds in your language that don't exist in English? Provide several phonetic transcriptions of important words.
I would describe the phonetic inventory of Quechua as pri
Read more…Reflect on how knowing a language’s history can help you learn the language.
I think this is very important to know, especially if the target language had a history of colonialism. In particular, Quechua existed before the Spaniards came
Read more…I have learned about Korean culture with my language partner, Joora. I learned a lot of history that I did not know before this semester. For example, we discussed many of the controversial historic events, such as “Comfort Women”, Dokdo, and the Ind
Read more…This week my language partner decided to take the time to have a “midterm” because he was worried at the amount of new words I had learned. My language partner thought we were going too fast and should slow down a bit. This was also the first week th
Read more…We went on a field trip to Grand Mart and experienced how to order and communicate with each other and other Koreans. It was nice having fellow students as fellow Korean learning students. We taught each other phrases or uses of words we did not know
Read more…This week my language partner and I worked on how to communicate distance, learned the phrases for different types of houses, and nationalistic words used. I did not intend to learn this, but my uncle suggested I do so because of recent events in Bol
Read more…Quechua people have a tool for raising children. When I was growing up in Bolivia, in the countryside, I would notice that many women used colorful blankets in which they would wrap their younger child and carry them on their backs. This tradition ha
Read more…At the beginning of the year Hocam Merve gave us all little evil eye "talismans" (if you want to call them that. They're little glass evil eyes on safety pins). They are supposed to be to keep evil out of your life so I put mine on my backpack to giv
Read more…I learned a lot about Korean history. One aspect of Korean history I was extremely interested in was the history of Dokdo. I was also extremely interested in the history of the Korean Independence movement. Teacher Joora ordered easy-to-understand bo
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