For this cultural post, I wanted to focus on a traditional game called Yutnori that can be played anywhere and by all ages. During high school, one of my friends invited me to her Korean Church because there was a special gathering for a festival. I
Read more…These past two weeks I learn a lot more about sentence structure in the Korean language with my language partner. It was familiar to me because the sentence structure was very similar to the Japanese sentence structure.
“My dog and cat-like playing w
Read more…Learning the Korean alphabet has much more difficult than I imagined. When learning Spanish, it was not that difficult to figure out the new symbols and their corresponding sounds. However, with Korean, all of the symbols are completely new to me, wi
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, March 8: Discussion Post #7 on the Ning
Go back and watch the recording of your presentation of your learning plan on the class PanOpto collection on Blackboard. Comment briefly on how things are going. What has changed? How hav
Read more…I had my first Korean lesson with Ms. Sumi Kim this week. We first started by discussing what sparked our interest in Korean and what would be the goals for us this semester. Personally I want to be able to converse in basic Korean by the end of the
Read more…I do not think the brain’s function in language using is a purely biological phenomenon. Language is created by humans in order to communicate with other people. I have watched a Ted Talk about how language shapes the way we think, in the video the s
Read more…During the past two weeks, I have felt a large growth in my learning of the Portuguese language. Two Fridays ago, I met with Dixon, and I read him a letter I wrote for my mom’s birthday. He helped me to correct it, and after, he gave me an excerpt of
Read more…Summary
Different people have different personal identities due to the different in their culture. Personal identities generally span between the extreme ranges of collectivism or individualism. Since no culture will be neither purely
Read more…Recently, while reminiscing my childhood with my mother, I was reminded of a tradition that most Vietnamese people “celebrate”. Most Asian countries follows the Lunar calendar – a calendar based upon the moon’s phases – in addition to the Gregorian c
Read more…My Learning Plan
Learner Name: Mallory Haskins |
Semester: Spring 2020 |
Language: Korean |
Course: SDLC 105 and 110 |
Where are you now? What can you do? What do you know?
Use the Levels of Competence document and the LinguaFolio® checklists to
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, March 22: Discussion Post #8 on the Ning
How do languages go extinct? Respond to the readings, and reflect on what happens when a language dies? How can linguists help preserve a language? Can a ‘dead’ language ever be brought b
Read more…The readings opened my eyes to show me how the process of language truly works. It’s such a “normal” part of my life that I didn’t realize how complicated it could all be when looking at it from a neurological stance. From my previous psychology clas
Read more…Figuring Foreigners Out focused on five different notions within cultures. The first one was the concept of individualism and collectivism. It’s claimed that those who are individualistic, don’t necessarily see group membership as an essential block
Read more…The Portuguese language belongs to the Romance language family. The Romance language family can be potentially divided into the Western and Eastern Romance languages. The Western Romance languages can be divided based on the use of “s” for pluralizin
Read more…When I first started learning Korean, I found it to be so difficult because of the new symbols along the new sounds of Hangul. Even if I knew what a vowel or consonant sounded like in my head, I wasn’t able to pronounce it. It was kind frustrating an
Read more…My Learning Plan
Learner Name: Alana Dickson |
Semester: Spring 2020 |
Language: Portuguese |
Course: SDLC 105 & 110 |
Where are you now? What can you do? What do you know?
Use the Levels of Competence document and the LinguaFolio® checklists to
Read more…In the past several years, I have heard about the usage and implementation of cochlear implants to “correct” a deaf person’s deafness. With such a phrasing, a debate encompassing the categorization of being deaf as a disability has arise
Read more…The reading talks about different dimensions of culture that put them into different categories, individualist vs. collectivist, Nonverbal communication, Monochronic vs. polychronic, Internal vs. external, and direct vs. indirect communication to exp
Read more…Buchaechum (부채춤) is a traditional fan dance created by Kim Baek-bong (김백봉). It was first presented in public in 1954 and is usually performed by groups of Korean female dancers. The word “Buchae” means Fan, and “Chum” means dance. The dance was devel
Read more…In past weeks, my partner and I have been quickly going through the elementary stuff like going over the alphabets and basic everyday words. On top of it, we have also been talking primarily in Vietnamese rather than English. I have f
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