As we returned to campus following winter break, I held the expectation that my final semester at UR would be the most predictably joyous in the most unpredictably, spontaneous of ways. I was enrolled in 4.25 credits, and 1.5 of those credits were in
Read more…After getting settled back home I have tried to make time in my week for Korean to keep some consistency. Although I already knew that I much prefer in-person classes over online this was especially true for my SDLC meetings with Jannette. While I am
Read more…Pop Quiz!!
Did I:
a. Really enjoy SDLC and learning Korean
b. Really REALLY enjoy SDLC and learning Korean (but still struggle sometimes)
c. Learn a lot more about Korean culture than I expected and have a fantastic experience with my langua
Read more…My days and time in quarantine all blend together making it hard for me to even know what of the week it is. Ironically, the focus of my studies recently has surrounded learning about time and the days of the week in Korean. In my original learning p
Read more… Qajar Gender and Sexuality
I first became interested in the Qajar Persian dynasty after I met a man in a café in Baku on one of my last days of CLS. I was speaking English with the owner, over chay and mantu when he came up to me and started speakin
In this biweekly reflection I will write about Parasite which was the lesson one or two week before spring break. In order to keep with tradition, we watched a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the title kang’s restaurant (강식당) season 2 t
Read more…For this cultural post, I thought I would focus and talk about the “evil eye” which is the nazar boncugu. Nazar is a word that is derived from Arabic. Nazar means sight. The nazar is an eye-shaped amulet or bead which is believed to protect an indivi
Read more…For my final cultural research presentation, I decided to record two separate versions in both English and Malay. In addition, I've included a bilingual script so these are each easier to follow.
ENGLISH Version: https://urcapture.hosted.panopto.com
Read more…During these final weeks, I have been catching up on work for classes. Naturally, as you can see me writing this journal in the last week, I tend to push assignments as far back as possible, fully knowing the stress they may cause in the future. Howe
Read more…During these weeks of studying Portuguese, I focused on relating my every-day life into Portuguese learning. I found it easy to use the current state of the world as well as it COVID-19 pandemic progressed. I read O Globo, a national newspaper based
Read more…These two weeks kickstarted the overall unprecedented transition to online learning due to the COVID-19 outbreak. My evolution class was supposed to travel to the Galapagos Islands in order to study conservation efforts such as the ecotourism, as wel
Read more…In this week’s Korean lesson, my partner and I talked about the current events in Korea, such as the Nth room case, Korean society. Not only in Korea but also in China the Nth room case got so much attention from the public. Nth room case involves bl
Read more…In a study of the Portuguese language and cultures, I would want to compare and contrast the different nations that speak Portuguese. Since the Portuguese Empire colonized communities dispersed all over the globe, the language is also spread across t
Read more…During these days in quarantine, the lessons with Mallory and I’s language partner, Jannette, have been a little different than in the past. We have been meeting on Zoom. Although our weekly little story time lesson from the book Jannette would brin
Read more…If I received a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of Korean, one of the first things I will do is move to Korea and live there for a period of time and travel around in Korea. When I first studied English, I did not learn much when I was i
Read more…This week, my language partner and I went through the present tense and some of the past tense. We also went through some examples and did some practice questions.
There are two rules for the present tense
My language partner had taught me how to write in Korean at the very beginning of our lesson. However, I still can’t type in Korean because I do not have a Korean keyboard. Unlike Japanese, there is Romanized the alphabet for Japanese and we can just
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Surprising, South Korea has one of the world’s biggest drinking population ratio in the world, with an estimated 1.6 million alcoholics. The Journal of Korean Medical Science reports than every night about 6 million South Korean drink 9.35 million
Read more…I am also taking a course on Japanese Colonialism this semester that talks about Japanese colonial control over Korea from 1910 to the end of the second world war, and I want to talk about the influence of Japan over Korea in this culture post.
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