I’ve been planning to learn the Korean menu and how to order food in Korean since my friend and I visit Korean restaurants a lot. So during this spring break, I decided to learn how to pronounce Korean food names correctly and how to order in Korean.
Read more…Starting my journey to learning Portuguese, I knew I wanted to incorporate cultural elements into my learning, so as to create a more holistic experience. Gabi introduced me to Portuguese music as I have featured in another Culture Post. She also tal
Read more…This week we looked at another new news event in Korea which shook the international community, the nth room. More than 2million people have petitioned to the Korean government to fully disclose the Nth room (n번방) suspects and put them on a press pho
Read more…The article regarding Siletz Dee-ni enlightened me of the concerns regarding endangered languages. I found Mr. Lane of Siletz, Oregon to be quite admirable in his quest to salvage the last of his language. By opening the Siletz Dee-ni Talking Diction
Read more…This two weeks of learning we looked at another article that talked about the unfolding corona virus in South Korea. This article described the key incident that greatly exacerbated the pandemic in South Korea, which is the 신건지 신도a cult based in Daeg
Read more…The COVID 19 outbreak
During the COVID 19 outbreak, South Korea was one of the countries got affected by the disease. By now there are 10738 total cases in Korea, but daily new cases have already dropped to less than 15 per day. Korea was able to
Read more…A language go extinct when nobody in the world is able to speak, read, and write the language anymore. I have studied Native American History before, and many native American languages have already extinct. What happened to the native American langua
Read more…Korean Language is the language of the Korean Peninsula in northeast Asia. It is believed that the ancestors of the Korean people arrived in the Korean peninsula and in Manchuria around 4000 BC. There are many theories about the origin and affiliatio
Read more…In this week’s learning we watched the first foreign film to win the academy award for Best Pictures, Parasite 기생충. The film is a black comedy social thriller that illustrated greed and class discrimination in South Korea. The Kim family live in a se
Read more…These past two weeks I moved on to Unit 2 of “Nerede?” with my language partner, Hazal. Nerede? Means where is it? Therefore, on this unit, we focused on locatives in particular. First, I learned specific words that signify a locative sentence or que
Read more…For this cultural post, I wanted to dive into korean music. More specifically, korean hip hop. When someone says korean music the first thought that will appear to most people is kpop. These people will most likely talk about and know many different
Read more…Hi everyone!
In my presentation I discuss hierarchy and honorifics in Korea. I also included a PDF of my powerpoint I use in the video if anyone wants to look at it. Thank you so much!
Final cultural presentation: https://youtu.be/PNYTlnsJaCY
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Read more…For this cultural post, I would like to talk about a film that I was able to enjoy during the extra time I was granted due to this hectic semester from the effects of coronavirus called “택시운전사” or “A Taxi Driver”. This film centers around events that
Read more…These two weeks of spring break have thrown my SDLC plans (and the entire world) off! This was a wildly hectic time as we all left for spring break and then Coronavirus changed everything. Due to this, I was unable to meet with Jannette during this t
Read more…Arirang (아리랑)
Having covered food and taekwondo in my previous cultural posts I wanted to take the focus this week to music - and no, sadly, NOT Kpop music. I chose this song because I really love music and have played instruments/sung since 2nd gra
Read more…Doljanchi (돌잔치) and Birthdays (생일 - saengil)
Let’s talk about birthdays! Birthdays tend to be happy occasions and are celebrated across culture. There is also a certain component of tradition to birthdays. Whether or not you’re someone who enjoys ce
Read more…At our last class, we reviewed the “useful expressions” worksheet and started practicing having conversations based on the worksheet. Ms. Kim selected a couple of phrases she thinks would be useful when visiting Korea. When purchasing goods, I could
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