As we approach the end of the academic year, I can look back and reflect on a tumultuous semester in which myself and my friend Susmita were able to do ASL classes over Zoom for about 10 weeks. Towards the beginning of the course, we learned about th
Read more…Do some preliminary research on what interests you about the target culture and describe how this topic relates to language. Do you need any special vocabulary or linguistic knowledge to engage this topic? If so, have you included objectives in your
Read more…Imagine that you have received a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of your target language and culture. How would you get started, and what would you investigate? How would different structural components presented in class appear in your
Read more…As someone who moved to the United States at the age of 9, a big aspect of Nepali culture that I personally feel that I missed out on has been the Nepali folk culture. In many cases, especially the smaller towns and villages, folk displays of art suc
Read more…Having watched the presentation of our original learning plan from the beginning of the semester, I can proudly reflect and say that so far things have been going smoothly despite some initial troubles with the Zoom technology and our class setup. Pr
Read more…In the class, I have also learned some very important dates in Korean history. For example, 삼일 운동. The March 1st Movement, also known as the Sam-il (3-1) Movement 삼일 운동 was a protest movement by Korean people and students calling for independence fro
Read more…When I try to write in Korean, I notice that I do not know what to use when there are two different particles. So I raise this question and my language partner decides to spend two weeks helping me solving this problem.
We first start with the subjec
Read more…This is the second post documenting my ASL journey and there have been some major changes to our learning strategies since the last post. As mentioned previously, we were initially a group of five meeting twice a week but now we have decided to split
Read more…Thinking about the discussion of whether languages go extinct, I definitely think that languages do go extinct. Knowing from personal languages that I speak, there are definitely languages that are slowly becoming less and less common.
I think there
Read more…In second grade, I moved to America from South Korea due to my dad’s work. I started attending school without knowing any English, and the school placed me in an ESL program. The ESL program helped me become proficient in English in three years. One
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