The Vietnamese phonetic inventory is very similar to the International Phonetic Alphabet chart from the reading in that Vietnamese utilizes:
I don’t have any questions about the texts but I do find some claims problematic. For instance, I find that the claim stating that naturalism has merit in circumstances when onomatopoeia is used is questionable. Conventionalism as described by Arist
İki hafta önce Hazal ve ben sadece bir günde buluştuk çünkü Salı’da genel buluştuğumuz zamanında başka şey yapması gerekiyordu. Bu yüzden o haftada sadece Perşembe’de buluştuk. O günde biz yeni bir der kitap bölümü başladık çünkü öncedenki bolümü get
Read more…During the past week, we have celebrated the Lunar New Year. The Korean New Year falls on the same day as the Chinese New Year, which is on January 25th this year. Korean New Year, 설, is one of the most important traditional Korean holidays. Seol, is
Read more…In the past two weeks, I learned how to spell words in Korean based on the dictation and I also learned the Korean number system. I had a lot of spelling exercises including my English name, Chinese name, daily greeting, and many other phrases. I co
Read more…In the study of speech, level structures such as phonetics, phonology, semantics, and grammar are the most widely used models.
Vietnamese is a tonal language. That means the meaning of a word can vary depending on how high or low of a voice is used
Read more…This week, I learned more common phrases and numbers in Turkish. Hazal and I reviewed common phrases that we learned last week and also added some more. I also practiced my pronunciation skills by having a conversation with Hazal. One of the conversa
Read more…In this biweekly reflection I will write about what I did to compensate for no Korean lessons for two weeks due to a cancelled lesson and spring break. In order to keep with tradition, I watched a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the tit
Read more…The reading really helped me to understand the different sounds in different languages and help me to know with part of my mouth I should use to produce the sound. There are 24 letters in the Korean alphabet, 14 consonants, and 10 vowels. When I comp
Read more…In response to current events, my first Korean class this semester began with reading news articles on the Wuhan organed coronavirus. Similarly, with other countries around the globe, xenophobia and racism had exacerbated due to the spread of this in
Read more…For the past week, my partner and I have spent more time on free talks. He often has me explain things like classwork, cooking direction, work duties, and et cetera to him to the best of my ability. Then he would fix whatever he feels would have been
Read more…I remember going over topics such as ingroup and outgroup in psychology class last year, but we talked about it by looking into one society. Through Figuring Foreigners Out, I thought the most intriguing culture differences was the concept of individ
Read more…Although I have been intrigued by Korean for a while, this semester I have the opportunity to start learning it! Starting out has been kind of slow so far and it has mostly consisted of me googling Anki sets or Quizlet to find flashcards to start lea
Read more…The cultural authentic artifact that I will write about in this post is korean food. I personally enjoy korean food greatly but when I talked with my other peers at the University of Richmond who also do. We found that there are not that many places
Read more…I began learning Spanish in middle school. I chose Spanish, because our school had many Spanish-speaking students. Since most of my exposure to a foreign language was with Spanish, I chose to study it. I am a pretty firm believer in the teacher havin
Read more…Pansori is a Korean musical tradition that was characterized by expressive singing, storytelling, and performing. It was generally performed by a vocalist and a single drummer. The performer will combine singing (sori) with gestures (ballim) and narr
Read more…During my first week with my language partner, Hazal, I watched multiple videos on YouTube about Turkish foods, delights, and places to visit. As Hazal asked me questions about the country and its culture, I realized that I did not know much about ei
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