On my way back to China, I chose to buy Asiana Airline’s flight ticker due to multiple reasons. Asiana Airlines Inc. (아시아나항공) is a South Korean airline. The airline's global headquarters is located in the capital city, Seoul. In 2019, it accounted f
Read more…Language Journal # 7 Study Abroad and Visa Process
The study abroad process has picked up dramatically since I had received approval from the University. I then had to meet every strict deadline for the Yonsei University application process, to say it
Youtube has been one of my best resources for immersing into the cultural aspect of language learning, from further explanations of grammar usage to short clips of fun variety shows. Korean Variety shows at one point completely consumed my life and I
Read more…Language Journal # 8
This final week I have focused most of my energy on writing and reading where it was a simple sign or a text message I tried to read it. My English reading abilities are really quick thanks to the years of speed reading courses my
Language Journal #6 Shortened Words
While looking for topics on what to do for my language presentation I was struggling to find something that would be interesting but also fun. I decided to do 줄임말 or shortening words a subject that is very popular
Read more…Cultural Post # 3
One of my favorite kinds of food is Korean Food not only because of how homey it tastes but the variety of dishes and soups. From the amount of time and effort needed for each dish to the healthy ingredients that are used. Korean fo
Read more…There is no "developed country" like South Korea where the chaebol control all industries and the chaebol control all industries.
South Korea's Samsung, Hyundai, LG, and SK are still controlled by family firms today. Samsung is controlled by the Le
Read more…As I mentioned before, Korean is really different from English. In order to translate Korean to English better, it is also important to learn the characteristics of Korean in detail. English is a subject-verb-object (SVO) language (e.g., Andrew-studi
Read more…The reasons are often political, economic, or cultural in nature. Speakers of a minority language may, for example, decide that it is better for their children’s future to teach them a language that is tied to economic success. For example, I know th
Read more…There’s a certain type of body language in Korea called “skinship”, 스킨십 [skin-ʂip] that’s not as commonly expressed in America. What distinguishes it from other countries in body language or gestures, is that it’s normally expressed between the same
Read more…Language Journal # 5 BTS Books
After what seemed forever my "LEARN KOREAN WITH BTS" books finally arrive at my dorm! There is a total of 4 books, all for level one, while my understanding of Korean may not entirely be at level one- the books were ac
Read more…As a language learner and cultural explorer, I have found that I am resilient. I have found that the joy of language learning overrides my overall frustration with having a better short term memory than a long term memory. I learned the specific feat
Read more…We have been working on numbers and currencies (Korean number and currency), how to do self-introductions (에리카), the different tenses, and vocabulary from the document my instructor had prepared. I was pretty excited because I cannot understand numbe
Read more…In order to improve my reading skills, I also used the actual weather forecast news as my reading material. The news’ title is [오늘 날씨] 전국 흐리고 곳곳에 비 또는 눈.. 기온 높아 ‘포근’ which means [Today's Weather] Cloudy nationwide, rain or snow everywhere...
The news
Read more…Twi, also known as Akan Kasa, is a dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana by several million people, mainly of the Akan people, the largest of the seventeen major ethnic groups in Ghana. The Niger-Congo languages are the wo
Read more…This week began with a rather scary assignment for Bahasa Indonesia- we took a brief A1 exam before moving into A2 concepts! The exam wasn’t as scary as I was afraid of, but my vocabulary is still lacking in this language. I need to start paying more
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For my cultural journal this week, I’m going to talk about the culture and lives of young Indonesian people! I learned that Indonesian teenagers listen to a lot of Western music, especially Pop and RAP, which sounds fairly similar to most American
Read more…These past two weeks have been a lot of language learning, which is always fun! We learned about the rooms in a house, such as ruang tamu (living room), dapur (kitchen), and kamar tidur (bedroom). Casey and I practiced describing our ideal houses to
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