Target Language's Writing System
According to my learning plan, I am not focusing on the Bengali writing system, but knowing a few of the alphabets helps with pronunciation when speaking. Also, the letters are very different than the English alphabet
Read more…This week Atul and I worked on learning the simple past tense for the verbs we have gone over for the past 2 weeks. Simple past was a little difficult for me because there are a few irregular verbs that had completely different conjugations from thei
Read more…This week Atul and I laid a lot of good groundwork for the rest of the semester. As we decided last week, we wanted to increase my vocabulary by learning new verbs. Atul decided it would be best if I learned 10 new verbs each week. On Tuesday, I lear
Read more…Attitudes about family in the target culture
Family is an integral part of Indian culture. From an early age, one is taught the importance of respecting one's family and that one should prioritize family before all else.
Indian parents can tend to be
Read more…For this week, Atul and I focused on conversational Hindi and on increasing my vocabulary. We talked about the past week's happenings and also about our plans for the break. We recorded a five minute clip of the conversation for my fourth learning ar
Read more…This semester, I was able to read Korean articles (about 2 or 3 each week, two in Korean and one in English). I was able to search up new vocabulary and analyze and apply the content from the readings. I additionally gained lots of insight and knowle
Read more…When I saw the topic of "identity", I thought of how many people experience identity crises.
I personally felt an identity crisis because I was a Korean-American. My external image did not categorize me with Americans, but Koreans didn't identify me
Through the assigned readings I learned a lot about the inner workings of the brain and how they control our speech. The left hemisphere is responsible for language. There are many different parts of the brain that relate to different speech function
Read more…In the past couple of weeks, I feel like my vocabulary in Hindi has increased a lot. During eac
Read more…he Cherry Blossom Festival is known in many different countries, such as Japan and even in the United States. Though research, I also found out that this festival is pretty popular in South Korea as well, especially during the Spring time, which is w
Read more…Greetings, farewells, introductions
Hello (peace be upon you), my name is Aheema. I am a student at University of Richmond. I will be graduating in three months and then be working for a year. Afterward, I will be completing higher education. Thank y
Read more…Attitudes about Time in the Target Culture
In India, time is given a very different importance than it is in the US. The urgency to be punctual is not as great as it is here, and being late is so commonplace in non-professional settings that it isn't
Read more…This week, I focused on learning idioms in Hindi. Atul and I worked through a worksheet of idioms that was kindly provided by his mother. We went through 10-15 commonly used idioms in the language, wrote down translations for them and practiced them
Read more…This week Atul and I worked on 10 new verbs and their conjugations. We have been focusing on present and future continuous forms of the verbs and next week we will start looking at simple past because it's a little more complicated. We also went over
Read more…Language Writing System:
The Korean language is written in a language with characters unique to their own. It is composed of an alphabet, where each symbol mimics the sound you can make with your mouth. Although this language was invented around th
Read more…Although most of these cultural aspects of Korea I already knew from being Korean and growing up in a traditional Korean household. However, there were some aspects of Korean culture that I was not too aware about. For example, regarding Korean attit
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