A Korean letter is formed with one consonant and one or more vowels. Some consonants and vowels can be added to the bottom of a letter and used as final consonants. In Korean, there is this “으” sound that doesn’t exist in American English. There are
Read more…I feel that the linguistic knowledge we obtain from class definitely has been helpful for my korean learning. For example, Professor Kim has been using the international phonetic alphabet to teach us Hanguel and pronunciation of words in Korean class
Read more…The main idea behind Figuring Foreigners Out is how many cultures are not describable by one specific behavior and it is about the same with Hofstede’s Dimensions of Color. The only difference is how Hofstede scores them to see a difference based on
Read more…Turkish shares much of its phonetic qualities with English. However, it has an arguably shorter range of sound owing to the generally true rule that Turkish letters have one sound. An example of this is that A is always pronounced in the same way. Th
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My language background to date can be broken up into who sections, the pursuit of Latin and the pursuit of Ottoman.
Starting in seventh grade, I began my courses in Latin. I ended them in Senior year of high school in a library doing my first and o
Read more…My Korean class has been really good on track of my language learning plan presented at the start of the semester. We have worked through self-introduction, weather (my Task 1), description of my room, and also the menu items I like from South Korea
Read more…The things that most interests me about the target culture is the background and history of Korea as a whole. Korea is greatly influenced by Chinese and Japanese cultures which are seen (because of the wars and lots of history of fighting between the
Read more…Loan Words:
Turkish has may loan words from Arabic and Persian, many of which have been consciously “Turk-ified.” Kütüphane (library)=Kipab (Arabic, book) + Hane (Persian, house). It also has taken several French and English words. The French and Eng
Read more…My original learning plan was this right here: My learning plan for korean includes learning more vocabulary and practicing speaking and writing in order to further understand how the history of korea, more professional jargon related to my career pa
Read more…What interests me most about Turkish is usage and suffix agglutination.
Words in English are not necessarily used in the same way their Turkish counterparts are. If I want to say “I live in Bloomington,” I would say in Turkish, “Bloomington’da otur
Read more…Both readings describes characteristics that various cultures presents: individualist versus Collectivist, nonverbal communication, monochronic versus polychronic, internal versus external, direct vs indirect communication. And the 6 dimensions of cu
Read more…If I were to get a research grant to conduct a study into Turkish, I would focus on the activities of the Turkish Language Association in the 1930’s. It was at this time that the Association began to nationalize the Ottoman language into Turkish. The
Read more…This presentation discusses the rising concerns of gender inequality in South Korea brought up by a few current events. South Korea has the widest gender gaps in all developed and industrialized countries with high wage gaps and a visible g
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Dental |
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c ch |
k g kh |
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Nasal |
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My learning plan for korean includes learning more vocabulary and practicing speaking and writing in order to further understand how the history of korea, more professional jargon related to my career path of healthcare studies, and further appreciat
Read more…I have begun writing in Turkish. I have no preference for typing or writing. Typing is often more practical because many assignments are online these days. However, it is an aesthetic joy to play with letters. In my hand-written Turkish, the ö and ü
Read more…Korean has series of oral stops (sounds like English p, b, t, d, k and g), affricates (sounds like English ch and j) and fricatives (sounds like English s and z), but there are differences between them. Definitely, one series (ㅂㄷㅈㅅㄱ) is unvoiced and
Read more…In my updated learning plan, I want to emphasize spoken communication and vocabulary acquisition. Over the summer, I got a basic understanding of Korean grammar and started speaking (awkwardly and disfluently) with my mother, grandmother, and grandfa
Read more…Since the beginning of the semester, I have started writing in the target language. We have practiced writing down and reading short sentences as our practice for phrases and also homework. I prefer to write freehand because the Korean keyboard is di
Read more…As a language learner, I found that I enjoy learning about the history of language, how the language family of the Korean language itself can fit into possibly three families, how languages can become extinct, endangered, and revived, and the fact th
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