For my final cultural artifact post, I thought that I would touch upon something that has been heavily covered in the Western media over the past several weeks: the sexist advice from the Malaysian Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development
Read more…In the spirit of Lunar New Year this past weekend, I want to talk about traditional Vietnamese fashion. Traditionally speaking, Vietnamese fashion was heavily influenced by Chinese’s style clothing. The most famous style today is arguably the modern
Read more…Things are going much better than I thought it would. As expected, I have encountered some obstacles tackling things like dictions due to my speaking habits. This makes reading and writing more difficult than I initially assumed, but it also shows me
Read more…The Persian language (Farsi) belongs to the Indo-European family of languages. However, within this family, it specifically belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch. While Farsi is the official language of Iran, there are other varieties that are spoken in
Read more…In the past week, I have been focusing more on diction just as I said I would. In my free time, I would either jot down words or phrases that I heard while listening to Vietnamese broadcasts or music. As expected, due to speaking habits, I still have
Read more…While learning Korean these past weeks, I have found that I feel like I am translating things twice. It is interesting because Hangul was foreign to me so first I would have to translate the symbols of Hangul into their respective letters/sound in Ko
Read more…Brazilian music styles range greatly like in many cultures. Before the Portuguese settled in Brazil, there was not much information recorded about the styles of music in Brazil. Once the Portuguese settled in Brazil, they brought with them music of t
Read more…The Hofstede Dimensions of Culture talks of six basic issues the society needs to address in order for the society to become organized. The dimensions are measured among countries and groups of countries around the world. The first dimension is indiv
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In the past week, I watched Parasite and decided to focus on the Oscar-winning movie as my cultural artifact. Parasite won 4 Oscars including Best Picture, Directing, International Feature Film, and Writi
Read more…At the beginning of the semester, when we were forming our goals for our target languages, I knew I wanted to include cultural aspects mixed in to learning the language. I chose Portuguese, because I took the Luso-Brazilian Studies course led by Dixo
Read more…Time keeps passing so quickly but I feel like I am making progress with Korean! Although it has taken me a little longer than I expected I think I’m finally getting a hang of Hangul as it is easier for me to recognize and pronounce the letters. I sti
Read more…Hanbok is the traditional attire in Korea. It used to be worn daily up until just 100 years ago, but now is only worn on special occasions or anniversaries. It was originally designed to facilitate ease of movement. It is semi-formal or formal attire
Read more…I would like to talk about an aspect of Turkish and Persian culture, calligraphy. While calligraphy in the region is often referred to as Arabic calligraphy, disregarding the language which it writes and focusing on the script itself, I believe Persi
Read more…I think, for the most part, my language partner and I have stayed on task about our learning plan. We have dedicated a good amount of time to reading academic and news articles in Persian. Upon reading those articles, we took the time to discuss the
Read more…Korean folklore is tales derived from different traditions and religions, such as Shamanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity. Among those, Shamanism explains the world through supernatural beings such as spirits and ghosts, with a belief tha
Read more…Vietnamese belong to the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family. As a language that was heavily influenced by Chinese, before the introduction of the Latin alphabet, Vietnamese had a writing system similar to Chinese. The former writi
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This is Mallory and I's podcast interview with Jannette, our language partner. Thank you so much for watching and for an awesome semester!
Link: https://youtu.be/RUQW69nErvg
Read more…These past two weeks in Turkish have given me a better understanding of where I am presently as a language learner. I am an intermediate level speaker.
Two weeks ago Hazal and planned to sit down to do a test of my language skills for a scholarship (
Read more…Hi,
I have included my podcast interview with my language partner Jannette and my other group member Priyanka below. Thank you for watching and for a great semester of SDLC!
Link: https://youtu.be/RUQW69nErvg
Read more…I wanted to use my 3rd cultural post to revisit Malaysian politics and discuss a little bit about the monumental shift in government that transpired at the end of February this year. Tun Mahathir Mohamad ('Tun' is an honorary title) had ruled over Ma
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