Spring 2020 Discussion Posts (217)
Discussion Post #8: Languages Going Extinct and Ways to Save Them
Dr. Harrison points out a few factors that contribute to languages going extinct. These factors include the passing away of the elderly who practice the language. As a result, this contributes to a lack of speakers to speak and continue the language.
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Having built a foundation of Korean language learning last semester, I have updated my learning plan to achieve realistic goals, at the same time challenge myself in the process of learning a new Language. I have inco
Read more…105 Discussion Post #4: Phonetics
Phones are unitary segments of sound or speech. The phonetic inventory of Persian languages consists of different types of phones including consonants and vowels. The Persian language has six vowels and two diphthongs. Diphthongs are a combination of
Read more…Bi-Weekly Language Learning Journal #1
Ever since I was in grade 7, I have always been interested in Korean. My interests first came about because of my love of Korean dramas. Throughout high school, I started to get into Kpop as well. Through these outlets, I have learned about the Korea
Read more…110 - Bi-Weekly Language Post #5
Over Spring Break, my family and I traveled around Ontario, Canada. At one point, we visited my uncle, my father's brother, and his wife in Toronto, and, to my surprise, they only speaks Vietnamese. They live in a Vietnamese community in Toronto and
Read more…Learning plan
Week 1:
- Korean Alphabet
- Greeting/ Introduction
- Formal and informal
- Create a Korean Name
Week 2:
- Korean Alphabet
- be able to say age, hometown, Major
Week 3:
-Korean Alphabet
-Asking how others have been
-Meeting someone for the first tim
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After some uncertainty, it turns out that Hazal is able to continue helping her three University of Richmond students. Because she had to return to Nevshehir in these circumstances, I was almost certain that she would not be able to continue the less
Read more…Bi-Weekly Learning Journal #3
In this week’s class, we reviewed consonants and vowels and practiced combining them together to spell out different words. Ms. Kim wrote the vowels in a row and showed us how they would sound like when combined with different consonants. We learned
Read more…Bi weekly Learning #1
This week, I met with my language learning partner, Branda, we talked about the learning goal, plans, and started my Korean lessons. During the class, we started with the most basic daily conversation, how to introduce myself in Korean, the Korean al
Read more…110 - Bi-Weekly Language Post #3
As part of homework and classwork for my Japanese class, I have to read the news often so I can discuss about current events in class. Until now, I have been reading Japanese and English news, but I recently had an idea of integrating Vietnamese into
Read more…110 - Bi-Weekly Language Post #6
I learned something new recently. According to my newly acquired textbook, Vietnamese is sometimes mistakenly thought to be a monosyllabic -- a word containing only 1 syllable -- language, but that is not the case. Vietnamese words are primarily disy
Read more…bi weekly reflection #3
In this week’s korean lesson, we watched a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the title kang’s restaurant (강식당) season 2. We started off with this article in order to get some context for words we are going to learn and use in normal every
Read more…Biweekly Journal #1 Turkish
This week, I had my first meeting with my language partner, Hazal. We started by learning basic greetings. I learned how to say: “hello” (merhaba), “how are you?” (Nasilsiniz), “I’m fine” (Iyiyim), “thank you” (Tesekkür ederim), and many other phrase
Read more…Bi-Weekly Language Learning Journal 3
Lately, I have continued to explore affixes in Malay and am slowly getting more comfortable using and understanding them in ordinary speech. I have also gotten considerably better at recognizing roots and deconstructing unfamiliar words to make sense
Read more…105 - Discussion #8
Languages go extinct via internal and external pressures on the language itself. An internal
pressure on a language results from a small pool of speakers resulting in a community that may be
spread out and unable to use the language in ordinary circums
SDLC 110 Bi-Weekly Language Journal #1
Thus far, the process to the SDLC 110 Portuguese course has begun slightly slow due to materials missing and language partner communication. I am currently waiting on the Ultimate Portuguese book to arrive, and while I do, I have been reading over th
Read more…Cultural posts with authentic artifact #1
Growing up, I have always been watching Korean shows and dramas. One of the things I have wondered about are the Korean Masks worn in the dances. In Korean, “Tal” is the word for “mask.” As lunar new year just passed, I thought this would be fittin
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My recent Malay lessons have been a deep-dive into grammar, which has definitely been more of an emphasis this semester compared to last. In particular, I have been learning how the structural components of affixes work in Malay and the purposes that
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