Spring 2021 Ning Discussion Posts (110)
Nepali Bi-Weekly Journal #3
For this week, I wanted to start diving deeper into topics that I did not know so that I could have more questions to ask my tutor about during our next couple of meetings. One suggestion that a student that I received from one of my friends is to le
Read more…Nepali Bi-Weekly Journal #2
One thing that has still been frustrating this week has been getting all of my alphabet sounds right. Learning about them in class and their structure made me want to go back and pay more attention than I had initially planned to. I realized midway t
Read more…Cultural Post #3 -- Dialects
Something I’ve always been interested about with the Korean language are the different dialects it has. The Seoul accent is known as the “standard Korean” and the accent that most people here in Korean dramas or movies. There’s not much change in int
Read more…Bi-Weekly Language Learning Journal #3
The past couple of weeks set the stage and foundation of my word bank and sentence structure knowledge, so we started to move in the direction of conversation. My instructor printed out a two-page conversation about topics that we previously covered—
Read more…Cultural Post 4
Since I covered Tihar in my last cultural post, it is only right for me to cover Dashain for my final cultural post.
Dashain, the longest Hindu festival in Nepal, is celebrated over the span of two weeks. For Nepalis, Dashain is a time for get toge
Read more…Cultural Presentation on Malaysian Music
Attached below is my cultural presentation on Malaysian Music that I have also shared with you on the Panopto platform.
Read more…Final Cultural Presentation -- Korean Idol Perfection
I couldn't access the Panopto link for the Spring 2021, so I've uploaded on here instead! Enjoy!
Read more…Discussion 9
How have you started writing in the target language? Do you prefer to type or write free hand? Have you started to see patterns emerge in the structures between words, clauses, and sentences? What is the relationship between simple and complex senten
Read more…Cultural Post #1
In its brief 200-year history, ASL has made incredible advancements while having to withstand a series of controversies. The first records of signed languages date back to the 17th century. American Sign Language (ASL) has its roots in the French sig
Read more…Discussion 8
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 back to life? What efforts are currently underway to document li
Read more…Discussion#4
In the previous classes, I have learned the case particles but the only special particle introduced so far is the topic particle 은 and 는. What distinguishes case particles from special particles lies in their functions. While the primary function of
Read more…Discussion 7
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 have you incorporated materials and insights from class into your
Read more…Discussion#2
In the first week of class, I reviewed some vocabulary words which were mainly used in school. It was actually really important to learn these words because these words were pretty common to use in school. I also practiced how to type these Korean vo
Read more…