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In my video, I teach the very basics of conjugating in Korean in the informal polite speech form. I ended up having so much to say that I actually made two versions of the video where one is a little longer and has more detailed explanat
Read more…For this post, I would like to talk about Turkish clothing and history behind it.
The earliest sources found in the history of Turkish clothing date back to the miniatures and wall pictures uncovered in Central Asia. Sources of 100 B.C. reveal that
Read more…For this post, I would like to talk about the art of Turkish tiles and ceramic.
The art of Turkish ceramic tiles and ceramics occupies a pivotal position in the history of Islamic art. Its roots can be traced back to at least
Read more…Reflecting on my work in Persian
When I began Persian this semester, I was only familiar with the alphabet, which I had learned the semester earlier in Arabic. While I could pronounce these letters pretty well. I learned that Persians could not (joke
Read more…For our last two weeks, Logan and I started focusing on historical studies in preparations for my final cultural presentation. Our activities now focus on different regions in Vietnam. The country is historically divided into three main regions: Nort
Read more…Hi everyone! This is the link to my cultural presentation:
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Read more…In these two weeks of classes, my language partner taught me more about Korean grammar and sentence structure. Korean has the same sentence structure as Japanese, Subject + Object + Verb, and just like Japanese, there are different conjugation for th
Read more…One reasons why I joined this program was to improve my writing skills, so I have delved into writing since the beginning. Typing is quite difficult in Vietnamese because of all the tone markings and diacritics and the combination of the
Read more…These past two weeks I learned how to state there is/are and there isn’t or aren’t statements. To state these sentence I learned that we use var, which is there is/are, and yok, which is there isn’t or aren’t. For example if I wanted to state if ther
Read more…Religions in Korea
Before I study Korean, I have met a lot of Korean friends, and a lot of them are Protestantism, a branch of Christian. However, I did not expect that protestants made up 45% of the religious population, followed by Buddhists which
Read more…Korean fried chicken, a movie, and particles! What do these all have in common? My language partner Jannette and my fellow Korean student Priyanka and I all consumed the Korean-style fried chicken, watched a Korean movie, and learned about Korean par
Read more…Here's the link to the podcast that Mehreen and I recorded with Melisa earlier today:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12uw8_kvPqbxnhkd65DFdcBrRkEiN3AFs/view?usp=sharing
Read more…For this post, I would like to talk about the art of Turkish photographs.
Photography was one of the major technological discoveries that contributed to the rise of modernity in the 19th century. It was introduced to the lands of the Ottoman Empire
Read more…These two weeks were quite the whirlwind. It seemed as though professors, students, families, the world was (and still is) unsure of how to handle life. For the majority of the the past couple of weeks, I have just been reorganizing my life in many d
Read more…In this biweekly reflection I will write about 맞춤법 or Korean grammar.In order to keep with tradition, I now watch a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the title kang’s restaurant (강식당) season 2 myself on my own time to just make sure I am
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