As I begin studying the Korean language more carefully and analyzing the sentence structure, I became more intrigued with the relationship of formal and informal speech with the social structure and power distance. For this small research I wanted to
Read more…Looking at the video presentation at the beginning of the semester, I am fairly pleased with my progress on my learning plan. I have learnt and completed more than I have expected, and went beyond my plans. My Learning Plan included the most basic co
Read more…Looking back at the Pan Opto video on Blackboard I recorded, I do not think much has changed from then until now. This is largely because I am not studying Turkish at the moment. One thing has changed, and I should have expected it. My two friends in
Read more…When we have planned our syllabus at the start of the semester, me and my classmates all really wanted to learn about tourism in Korea. We’ve have all been very fascinated with the Korean Culture and want to visit South Korea in the near future, and
Read more…Korean belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family according to the links provided in the readings as it is a part of Asia. But the related link states that Mandarin Chinese is classified as Sino-Tibetan which is most similar to Korean from the very
Read more…During the third week of our class, we have decided as a group to learn the basic conversation used in Restaurants. I think this would be very useful because I am planning to travel to South Korea with my family in the near future, and I also get to
Read more…Korean is linked to the Altaic languages of central Asia, a family that includes Turkish, Mongolian, and Tungusic languages of Siberia. The modern Korean writing system, hangul, was devised in 1443. Before hangul, other Korean scripts used a system o
Read more…The language I am learning is Istanbul Türkçe. It is the more formal variant Turkish and the official language of the modern nation-state of Turkey.
It’s ancestor, Proto-Turkic, is said to have originated around 1000BCE in the region that is now mode
Read more…During my research for my Cultural post last week, I became very intrigued in the intertwining political and cultural relationship between Korea and China. It is known that Sejong the Great (세종대왕) created Hangul in 1446, which ended the use of Chines
Read more…Korean belongs to the Koreanic language family. Modern Korean language descends from Old Korean. In the first century BC, Chinese characters arrived in Korea and were adapted. As a result, the pronunciation of many Korean words sounds indeed familiar
Read more…Chuseok, 추석, is one of the biggest and most important holiday and festival of the year in Korea. The date of Chuseok is August 15th, on the date of the full moon, on the Lunar Calendar, and for 2019, it is September 13th. Traditionally, Koreans will
Read more…One thing that always made me wonder and I never really understood was the Korean age. When I learnt my self-introduction at the beginning of the semester, I learnt to say how old I am: 저는 만 20(스무) 살 입니다. [I am 20 years old.] I was curious to see wh
Read more…I found that in Korean, written language and spoken language are quite closely related. If you know how to speak Korean, then you can write out the words according to the sounds. For each word in Korean, you are just putting consonants and vowels tog
Read more…I’m taking Korean as my target language now, and it has a really interesting order of subjects and objects. In Korean, as I observed, instead of the structure “subject-verb-object”, people say “subject-object-verb.” To clarify subjects and objects, K
Read more…This semester, I focused on learning about Korean culture and learning basic Korean words and phrases. Before this class, I was particularly interested in contemporary Korean cultures, such as Korean films, TV shows and K-pop music. But after a semes
Read more…I have learned a lot this semester, not only of the Korean Language but also of its culture and how to learn a new language. The SDLC 105 class really gave me more knowledge of linguistics and the basic building blocks of a language. On the other ha
Read more…Goal: comprehend basic daily communication,
can have a basic conversation with others about some simple topics.
Understand the game jargon
Can understand players’ streaming/interviews
Community partner: Professor Kim, wednesday classes
I plan to sta
Read more…During the past two classes, we looked at Korean idioms. Idioms intrigue me because they usually contain a small story behind each specific sentence which entails a larger meaning behind. By using these idioms in normal day to day conversations it wi
Read more…I admit that I was at first upset that this course exists. I wanted to jump back into Turkish. I felt something of a grudge for the first two weeks. On the first meeting day, I wore my CLS shirt to symbolize my feelings. However, no matter how I felt
Read more…I’m very interested in Korean festivals or holidays. There are a few similar festivals between Korea and China, but the traditions for each festival are usually different. To understand the tradition and history of all the holidays, I need to know mo
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