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…From September 30th to October 2 Chuseok or the Korean "Thanksgiving" or "Autumn Harvest Festival" has passed. It is a harvest festival celebrated in many parts of Asia, which mainly consists of celebrating with family and honoring their ancestors. I
Read more…These past weeks I have set myself a closer long-term goal and decided to apply for Study Abroad next Spring Semester 2021! I decided to make this decision since originally before COVID-19 my plan was to go next semester and then go to either Bocconi
Read more…When I did some preliminary research about my target culture I found some interesting facts. I found out that Koreans believe that direct eye contact during a conversation shows boldness however it is very impolite to have a conversation avoiding eye
Read more…I really appreciated the way that Crystal simply explained the basic structure of the brain before launching into the role of a dominant hemisphere and the functions of each. I also wonder if there have been any successful detailed models of neurolin
Read more…For these two week of SDLAP 112 lecture, I met with my language partner Somyung and Joon over Zoom last week and this week. We started off our lesson by talking about how our weeks were in Korean. This was in an effort to start practicing one of our
Read more…The cultural artifact that I focused on this week was Trot music. Trot (트로트), which is also known by the onomatopoeic term ppongjjak (뽕짝), is a genre of Korean pop music, known for its use of repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections. This type of musi
Read more…Korean phonetics is based on Hangul. Korean has 19 consonant phonemes and there are three segments which are: plain, tense, and aspirated. Korean consonants also have three principal positional allophones: initial, medial, and final. As for vowels, K
Read more…My first week in the SDLC program has been fairly exciting however I do not want to go in with high expectations. I wanted to just get accustomed to everything and getting into the habit of studying a language again. Obviously, in a regular classroom
Read more…For my last cultural journal, I’m going to focus on a traditional style of Indonesian music that has become really popular throughout the years. Kroncong, or Keroncong (Indonesian pronunciation usually skips over the e) was originally introduced to I
Read more…Korean is a really unique language in which phonetics makes up the entire writing system, so in order to speak or read you need to have a firm understanding of phonetics. A historical tall tale on how the Hangul, the Korean writing system, was create
Read more…I have started trying to write in my target language when my instructor breaks down a word for me I try to write it in a way that makes sense in my head. It may not be the way the word is actually spelled but it tremendously assists me in my memory o
Read more…A big thing I learned about myself as a language learner is that I can get easily discouraged when I set too many expectations for myself. I found the discouragement would, more often than not, negatively affect my interest in learning the language.
Read more…In Figuring Foreigners Out, the article talks about different ways cultures are different from each other. Whether they consist of individualists or collectivists, monochronic or polychronic, internal or external, and direct or indirect communication
Read more…I’ve always wondered about the prevalence of variety shows in South Korea. There seems to be a new one that comes out every season, and there are others that have been going on for years. The more popular shows seem to include the same handful of wel
Read more…For this week’s SDLAP 111 lecture, I met with my language partner Somyung over Zoom. We started off our lesson by talking about how our weeks were in Korean. This was in an effort to start practicing one of our goals for this semester which is to spe
Read more…I had started to write in my target language from the first lesson. I would repeatedly practice writing down the Korean alphabet to test my memory, and also to practice writing out the characters. I would write the entire alphabet while saying the le
Read more…We have been reviewing past material with heavy emphasis on particles. We watched another video (https://youtu.be/XOy8bBId3zU) that’s about 13-minutes long, just to review and have a constant refresher about the rules for particles. During our lesson
Read more…There are sounds in the Korean language that don’t exist in American English. There are five double consonants which are pronounced in a more emphasized manner of its single consonant counterpart. Not all of the consonants have double consonants, but
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