In my target language of Korean, I observe a lot of phonology, phonetics, and syntax. As stated in the reading “phonetics is followed by phonology and phonology is surrounded by syntax”. These two things together come together to form sounds and mean
Read more…As a language learner, I really enjoyed emerging myself into the culture and getting a better understanding of traditions and how the language evolved. I enjoyed being able to put my skills to use and practice with other speakers because it really he
Read more…A language fewer when less people are speaking this language, especially as their first language. A language is considered as an artifact when there is not a single person living who had grown up with it as a first language. When a language is dying,
Read more…South Korean President Park Geun-Hyun said in her inaugural address in 2013 that “Culture in Power.” The exportation of Korean Culture through music allowed South Korea to not only profit tremendously from it, but also allows the Korean culture to be
Read more…The language structure of Korean is very interesting. The grammatical structure of this language is similar with Japanese with the verb at the end of the sentence rather than Subject-verb-object, like English and Chinese. Like the example that I have
Read more…According to Dr. Geert Hofstede, "Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster." Figuring Foreigners Out outlined some of the key cultural differences that could cause po
Read more…I have found out from my previous research on the Korean History that though the North and South Korean languages are different to some degrees, one can understand the other. However, what intrigues me is the use of loan words in Korean. The North Ko
Read more…Languages die for many reasons. Some are political. For example, many cultures have been colonized or otherwise dominated by another culture. Often, this translated into suppressing the native culture’s mother tongue and eventually the death of the l
Read more…Due to my bad throat condition, I was unable to participate much verbally during our second Korean Class, but I have still learnt a lot about the basic grammatical structure of Korean, and different colors in Korean.
The Korean Language in speaking
Read more…Christopher J Meike
SDLC 105
September 13, 2019
Christopher J. Meike learning plan:
Like Gual, my Turkish language deficiency can be divided into three parts:
This week I worked on my language learning plan. I filled out my assessment checklist and listed out my goals. I’m interested in Korean tv shows, dramas, as well as K-pop songs, so I want to use them as parts of my learning resources. I wa
Read more…I learned how to appropriately agree or disagree with a statement in Korean. For example, depending on how I say "Isn't it hot?", I can either respond about the content or about the statement itself. I thought this was difficult to wrap my head aroun
Read more…Cultural Post One:
Because Turkish uses the Latin alphabet, I’m finding it easier to learn than a character-based language. The Latin alphabet was only introduced, however, in 1928 under the rule of Ataturk, who wanted to westernize much of Turkey’s
Read more…Most of the words in Turkish are pronounced the way they are spelled, with the exception of loan words and some other anomalous cases. One peculiarity of Turkish is that there is a letter called yumuşak ge (ğ) that lengthens the sound of the precedin
Read more…Aitchison's linguistics consists of phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Korean groups sounds differently than in English, and I already foresee this as an beginner in Korean. The article mentions that we must learn phonetics, pho
Read more…I wanted to learn Turkish because of the history associated with the language, the primary country, and its’ connection to Eurasia. I also picked Turkish because it is written in Latin script. The written alphabet is almost the same in English, excep
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