For the final two week of SDLAP 112 lecture, I met with my language partner Somyung and Joon over Zoom on Friday. We started off our lesson by talking about how our weeks were in Korean once again and for the final time. This was in an effort to cont
Read more…There are different ways in which people communicate such as those who are individualist versus collectivist. There are also cultures who differ from monochromic and polychronic, internal or external, and indirect or direct. When viewing Geert hofste
Read more…In our lessons, we worked on reviewing the simple consonants and simple vowels and also introduced the double consonants and complex vowels. My language instructor used charts again to go through the new characters and explained when its used. For co
Read more…For the last week, I have been continuing my indulgence in Vietnamese media at the urging of my study partner. However, I have moved on from musical entertainment and reality television to something like the food network. Logan and I have been watchi
Read more…For a while, I never really gave the Korean language much thought because as a Korean American, I grew up in a household that spoke Korean. But having this dual perspective allowed me to notice the stark contrasts between American culture and Korean
Read more…In my Korean class, we worked on consonants and vowels and reading the different combinations that they can form. As I was reading the chart, I also gave examples of words that are spelled with whichever said combination. This really helped visualize
Read more…If I had received a research grant to conduct a linguistic study on Korean and culture, I would want to investigate where the honorifics of the language derived from. Honorifics consists of four different particles that are semantically the same but
Read more…This week, I had my first meeting with my learning partner, Somyung Kim. At this first Zoom meeting, I learned that I will be having group lessons with Seokjoon Han! We were able to meet and discuss around roughly eight learning topics and initial id
Read more…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 their phonetic transcriptions of words as examples to support your argument. What do you
Read more…This is my last language learning journal! I can’t believe this semester is over already, and yet it also seems like it’s been so long! My last two weeks of learning Bahasa Indonesia went by so very fast, too. We spent a lot of time reviewing materia
Read more…Like many other Asian countries, Vietnamese culture contains numerous superstitions. Growing up in Vietnam, I learned about these superstitions from a very young age. Most of the superstitions tend to revolve around luck.
The first superstitious bel
Read more…Outside of my Bahasa Indonesia class I read about the many common celebrations in Indonesia. I was very intrigued by some of these holidays and wrote this passage in Bahasa Indonesia:
Ada banyak perayaan di Indonesia! Saya berfikir bawhwa tradisi di
Read more…I had taken Spanish all throughout middle school and the higher-level courses in high school, but I was miserable throughout all of it. The classes were to build up my high school transcript for college, so it was never for personal interest. I merel
Read more…During the class, I also learned a lot about Korean culture, such as the food culture in Korean cinemas. After reading the following conversation in the textbook, I learned the differences among Korean theater, American theater and Chinese theater.
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Read more…I think in terms of my target language I will focus on phonetics the least because technically my native language and seem to be able to understand all of the phonology. I think I will strive to focus on the semantics of the language because I have n
Read more…Figuring Foreigners Out describes how cultures are different or similar in many different ways. For example, it talks about how people in different cultures have different notions of personal identity such as having an individualistic vs. collectivi
Read more…I’m feeling especially excited to write this post because this week we had our first real lesson on Korean. Since my first goal is to be able to memorize the Korean alphabet, my instructor introduced the Korean consonants and vowels this week.
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Read more…Currently, I am not learning a language this semester. But from my previous experience of learning Spanish I learned from knowing the vocabulary first then trying to fit those into grammar structures or semantics. But I think it would not be a bad i
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