Fall 2019 Discussion Posts (145)
Discussion Post #10
If I was given a research grant to conduct linguistic study of Korean and Korean culture. I would start by first making a list of where the language originated and then learning more about the historical figures and buildings to learn about the cultu
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I found this great article written by a Korean with the title “Why are Koreans Good at Games? - The Story Behind History and Culture”. I started to learn Korean because of the game I am playing and the professional players I like who are from South K
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If I would receive a research grant for a linguistic study of Korean, I want to investigate the development of hangul by communicating with other countries. As we discussed in class and in some lessons with my language partner, Korean has a large pro
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In my target language of Korean, there are many examples of phonetic inventory. These include nasalized final stops, plosive bilabial, plosive alveolar, plosive palatal, plosive velar, nasal bilabial, nasal alveolar, fricative alveolar, fricative glo
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I prefer writing free hand over typing to practice my target language, because I can remember things easier if written out in comparison to typing them out. During my classes, Brenda, my language partner, will write out things on the board or show us
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Due to Thanks Giving Break, we only had one Korean Class. During our previous discussions we brought up current trends in South Korea and we thought it might be a good idea to learn about the current Korean Slangs. Through incorporating slangs in our
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In my first Korean Class with my Learning Partner Brenda and my classmates Olivia and Amber, we first discussed the topics and areas of the Korean Language and culture that we wanted to explore. We have planned a practical class schedule that will he
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I have written in my target language before and I still do sometimes. But because I have not officially started the self directed language learning course I have still yet to receive any comments and am still adjusting my learning plan as I keep goin
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I organized my learning plan based on the level I’m at right now for each skill and also my level of confidence in the tasks. I want to start from the ones I have more confidence in so that I can keep passionate about the tasks and not being too frus
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Languages go extinct because people stop speaking them. This is typically a gradual process set in motion by some form of destabilization of traditional life. The social, political, and economic environment changes around a language community to such
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If I were given a research grant to conduct a linguistic study on Korean language and culture, I would investigate the history of the Korean language in relation to other languages and cultures. I would start with a brief overview of how Korean as a
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I have been mostly just writing words and short phrases in Korean. I think typing on the phone is easy and straightforward, but I haven’t typed on computer yet because I still don’t know the correspondence between letter and korean consonants/vowels.
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As I have discussed in my previous discussion post, the Korean Language was created by King Sejong in 1446 to improve the overall literacy level of the Korean Population, as the official written language, Chinese, was too complicated and difficult to
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For the past two weeks of class, me and my learning partner looked at the history of Korea, specifically during the Japanese Colonial Period. The official Japanese Colonial Period was between 1910 and 1945, but some historians would argue that coloni
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The first reading discussed the composition of the brain, and the biology of language learning. The article analyzed the characteristics of specific parts of the brain, and how each individual parts contributes in forming our language learning abilit
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Languages go extinct as the world become more integrated. Languages like English, Mandarin Chinese and Korean gains popularity as their representing countries became the center of commerce and source of culture outsource. On the other hand, cultures
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I learned a lot from these two pieces of readings. I don’t think language is a purely biological phenomenon, although biology definitely played a major part in it. For speech production
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Languages go extinct when all the speakers and the number of those who know how to make sense and speak/use the language to communicate becomes zero. This is generally because in endangered languages, the new generations of children/adult speakers ar
Read more…İkinci ödev- Ning Post #2
If I am not mistaken, these two readings, along with the corresponding map derive from the same sociologist. This helps to explain the remarkable unity between the sources you assigned. The main idea of the two readings is that cultures can be compar
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