In this week’s class, we started on learning “useful expressions.” This includes greetings, self-introduction, simple questions and more. With this worksheet, I plan to learn how to start some basic daily conversation and learn more words through pra
Read more…It is hard to believe that this is my last journal log for the semester (and thus of my college career), but I take some solace in the fact that there is plenty to write in it. I will try to avoid being sentimental until the last few lines of this po
Read more…For my last Korean class, Ms. Kim and I worked on practicing daily conversations and learning grammar. I have been learning verb endings for a while. The endings would be differentiated by both the time (past/present/future) and the politeness level
Read more…During the two weeks of spring break, I did not meet with my language partner due to the chaotic time. However, I did spend a lot of time reviewing Hangul, subject particles, and common phrases I had learned before break which I mentioned in previous
Read more…For this Turkish cultural post, I decide to talk about a rather unusual sport. I will focus on Yağlı güreş, which means oil wrestling. Oil wrestling is the Turkish national sport. Wrestlers will cover themselves with olive oil. The wrestlers are call
Read more…These past two weeks my language partner, Hazal, and I focused on asking locative questions. Buunma durumu (-da) means the locative case. If the word ends in a, i, o, and u, I learned that I add -da to the end. If the word ends in e, i, ö, or ü, I le
Read more…This week, my language partner, Brenda, and I reviewed the alphabet that we learned last time. I also learned how to properly write the consonants. There is a certain order in writing the consonants.
This week we learned the vowels. There are ten vo
Read more…“How the brain handles language” focused on the structures and the functions of the human brain in its relation to the role of language. It showed that there are different structures that work together to send signals and transmit messages, allowing
Read more…In this week’s Turkish meetings, we have worked from the exercise book Hazal has chosen, translated passages, listened to music, and edited writings I had made. I have also tried to speak mostly in Turkish during the meetings.
The exercise book whi
Read more…This week I learned grammar rules in the Turkish language. First, I learned the vowel harmony in Turkish. For the front unrounded vowels, if the vowel preceding Is either “e” or “I”, the suffix vowel is “I”. For the front rounded vowels, if the vowel
Read more…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…In the beginning of the presentation, I talk about why I wanted to study the Portuguese language. I mention how I took Dixon’s class and learned about the Portuguese Empire and current issues in Luso-Brazilian cultures. As I think about this initial
Read more…This past two weeks I reviewed a lot of vocabulary with my language partner. I learned words such as agac (tree), alkol (alcohol), araba (car), baba (dad), balik (fish), banka (bank), bay (male), bebek (baby), bilet (ticket), bilgisayar (computer), c
Read more…“Turkish Stereotypes”
This week, as I was exploring Turkish culture, I came upon a Youtube video regarding Turkish,lf` stereotypes. I thought the video was interesting because I know very little regarding Turkish cultu
Read more…I was born in China and my family moved to the U.S when I was around 14 years old. My language learning experience in China is very different from the learning experience in the U.S. Even though students are required to learn English at school, very
Read more…Tteokbokki (떡볶이)
One constant component between any culture is food! Everybody no matter where they come from or what culture(s) they are a part of need to eat food. Each culture develops its own traditional plates that become a staple of their cu
Read more…Street foods exists all over the world from China to New York. As a result, it’s not a surprise that street foods play an essential role in Vietnamese culture, especially in the southern area. Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh (Ho Chi Minh City), more commonly r
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