I’ve been learning so much, so quickly! I began learning Bahasa Indonesia 2 weeks ago, and according to Duolingo’s test, I am 7% of the way through its course already! I hope to reach A2 proficiency by the end of this semester, which I know is a high
Read more…On the third week, Jenna also helped me recognized different coins and cash in Korea. She also taught me the background information of those people on the paper bills. I think it is really meaningful to understand who they are because they must be re
Read more…The reading was very helpful breaking down the parts of language but also as a tool to help identify which target area I need to study and understand more. Language can be very complex and interconnected with various parts, that as language speakers
Read more…Hello! It is good to be back after a few months away from school and people in general. I am excited about this school year because for the second semester now, I will be taking American Sign Language (ASL). I am still fairly new to the l
Read more…If I get a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of my target language and culture, there are two major topics that I would want to investigate in. I would first love to investigate the Korean language itself and how it evolved or was created
Read more…Go back and watch the recording of your presentation of your learning plan on the class PanOpto collection on Blackboard. Comment briefly on how things are going. What has changed? How have you incorporated materials and insights from class into your
Read more…Being a native Spanish speaker has always been extremely useful in my life and has helped me greatly to connect with other people. I often feel as though my personality changes when I speak a different language. I have never had to worry about my acc
Read more…What interests me about my target culture is the history of music that exists in the country of Ghana. From a music anthropology perspective, tracing the roots of genres like Highlife and Afrobeat to current day Hip Hop is a great joy of mine. Music
Read more…The custom of politeness in Indonesia is very different from the manner that politeness is expressed in the United States, so for this cultural post I investigated the etiquette of Indonesia and how to express respect and politeness within their cult
Read more…Figuring Foreigners Out talks about the difference in how people interact with each other within other cultures. It talks about individualists, collectivists, nonverbal communication, monochronic, polychronic, internal, external, and direct and indir
Read more…Imagine that you have received a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of your target language and culture. How would you get started, and what would you investigate? How would different structural components presented in class appear in your
Read more…The main focus of our lesson was to set the goals I had for this semester and what I hope to accomplish at the end of this semester. My ultimate goal is to become more proficient in Korean and be able to hold conversations well enough where I can fre
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 lesson by talking about how our weeks were in Korean. This was in an effort to start practicing one of our goals for
Read more…Hebrew belongs to the Canaanite group of languages. Canaanite languages are a branch of the Northwest Semitic family of languages. First, the language is closely related to Phoenician and Moabite, which are in a Canaanite subgroup. The history of the
Read more…For the past week, I have been indulging in Vietnamese media, especially singing competition television series like Giọng Ca Bất Bại (The Unbeatable Voice) and, at the recommendation of my language partner, Rap Việt. Much like the American television
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The reading was especially challenging but helpful to understanding which elements of language study I would have to place special attention on to improve my language capability in Twi. Applied linguistics and its practicality is the approach to my l
In Figuring Foreigners Out, the article reflects on the different aspects of a culture that makes us able to differentiate them from one another. Within the text, the main ideas surround whether cultures are individualistic or collectivist, monochron
Read more…I organized my self-directed learning plan by creating fun but insightful tasks to better the areas of my Korean that need the most help. I included various types of resources varying from books, textbooks, songs, youtube videos, movies, and language
Read more…Things are going very well and I am enjoying this process tremendously. It has been the cornerstone of my semester and has given me the motivation to continue learning in general throughout this semester. Being able to get a grip on material that I t
Read more…The phonetic inventory of Twi is very interesting because it relies on many of the same letters that english does, but shortens and elongates sounds to have very different meanings. “Agorɔ”, “kyerɛ” are words that include letters that do not exist in
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