If I received a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of Twi in Ghana I would hope to track the way the dialect changes as the regions change and what parts of the land demarcate linguistic differences, where they begin and end. I want to lear
Read more…How do languages go extinct? Respond to the readings, and reflect on what happens when a language dies? How can linguists help preserve a language? Can a ‘dead’ language ever be brought back to life? What efforts are currently underway to document li
Read more…Korean trot is an older style of music apart of the folk genre that has been around for more than 100 years. Originally named after the American fox trot dance of the 1930s, this genre is no doubt uniquely Korean. It has been around since the Korean
Read more…I can write in Korean but i prefer to type rather than write by hand. This is because I am used to texting my parents or my korean friends which I practice more often. Also, when you are texting the letters are already available plus if you misspell
Read more…Our last few lessons were essentially review of everything we did this semester and also recorded the “Podcast Interview” during our last lesson (audio_only.m4a). Considering that my instructor had to teach me a language all over zoom, I’d say we had
Read more…How have you started writing in the target language? Do you prefer to type or write free hand? Have you started to see patterns emerge in the structures between words, clauses, and sentences? What is the relationship between simple and complex senten
Read more…For these last two week of SDLAP 112 lecture, I met with my language partner Somyung and Joon over Zoom on Friday. We started off our lessons once again by talking about how our weeks were in Korean. This was in an effort to start practicing one of o
Read more…My target language is Korean and Korean is based on the X-SAMPA notation. Korean is based off of hangul which already is in phonetic alphabet form. The consonant phonemes are a contrast between invoice segments which follow the stop and affricate typ
Read more…For our lessons we have been doing a lot of reviewing over the Korean alphabet and words to solidify my foundation. We’ve also gone over bottom characteristics which in Korean is 받침 [ba-t͡ɕim]. My instructor told me that 받침 [ba-t͡ɕim] means ‘support’
Read more…What kinds of structures do you observe in your language of study? Refer to the diagram on page 9 in Aitchison’s linguistics. How do you combine different disciplinary perspectives to formulate a more holistic understanding of your target language? D
Read more…Language becomes extinct as people stop using them but also when there is a fight for power. When the English came in to America and took over the land they forced few of the tribes to adapt their ways by sending the Indian children to boarding schoo
Read more…It was interesting this week to dive into the cultural differences and looking at the Hofstede Insights tool. The reading did a good job of breaking down the different types and sections of "cultural differences", ranging from collectivism vs. indivi
Read more…In the past two weeks, I was practicing how to respond to certain scenarios if I was in Korea. I would have to respond on the spot and Janette my language partner would tell me how a native speaker would respond. These kinds of exercises are very hel
Read more…Looking back at my learning plan presentation I figured out that i had too many goals and made my plan a lot difficult to accomplish just in one semester. I have not applied my plan yet because I am going to learn Korean from second semester but I th
Read more…Do some preliminary research on what interests you about the target culture and describe how this topic relates to language. Do you need any special vocabulary or linguistic knowledge to engage this topic? If so, have you included objectives in your
Read more…1) Read G. Hudson, “Phonetics” in Essential Introductory Linguistics, pp. 20-42.
Describe the phonetic inventory of your target language. Are there sounds in your language that don’t exist in American English? If so, provide several words and corres
Read more…This week I tried a new learning strategy by making a playlist with songs in Korean, that I had listened to prior and wanted to learn more about. I started by listening to them daily and oftentimes leaving the playlist on repeat in the background whi
Read more…I have really been enjoying the new weekly schedule with Farida. Meeting three times a week and doing my independent study of the language for the other two days is much less stressful and easier to balance than meeting for five times each week. Our
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