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…Catalan belongs to the Gallo-Romance language family. Though some linguists argue it is part of the Ibero-Romance language family. Both of these groups include languages such as Portuguese, Galician, French, Provencal, and Occitan. Romance languages
Read more…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…Something that really interest me right now is the Catalonian political atmosphere. Many catalonians believe that they are a people without a state. In recent years, there has been many tensions between the Catalonian Independence Movement and the Sp
Read more…Sound is the vocalization of phones; so when one is speaking, they are using a sequence of phones to create words and sentences. Also, sound requires an airstream, such as the lungs, to transport the phones into open air. The larynx, the tongue body,
Read more…Summarize some of the main ideas behind Figuring Foreigners Out and the Hofstede Dimensions of Culture. Do you predominantly agree with these assessments? Are there any statements, generalizations, and opinions expressed in the reading that you find
Read more…This month I wrote a lot in my notebook that my grandma gave me. It is very long and tedious but doing this everyday is very helpful for me to maintain my writing skills. I started searching for topics that I wanted to do my writing assignment about
Read more…Phonetics at the center of the diagram makes a lot of sense to me (for my language journey). In Catalan, the majority of stuff is pronounced like it is in Spanish which makes pronunciation and conversation much easier for me. There are some combinati
Read more…Reflect on the history of your target language. To what language family does it belong? What sounds, words, and structures exemplify periods of contact with other cultures? How do these considerations enhance your understanding of the target language
Read more…My previous experiences as a language learner have been quite limited. Growing up my family spoke only English so I had not been exposed to any foreign languages as a child. However, once I got into middle school I began studying Spanish. Throughout
Read more…This semester I will be focusing more on my writing skills. There is a gift that my grandmother gave to me over the summer and it is a book that helps people write Korean verses of the Bible. I know it is a very simple task where I would have to writ
Read more…Reflect on the readings. Do you have any questions about the texts? Are there any claims that you find problematic? Do you think language is a purely biological phenomenon? What parts of the brain are most important for the production and comprehensi
Read more…The author of "Figuring Foreigners Out" classified countries differences based on several categories such as: Individuality, Non-verbal communication, distinguishment of time, externalities, and communication. He defined what these terms meant in rel
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…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…I have learned a lot about my abilities and tendencies as a language learner over the past semester. Starting out I was very eager to start learning how to speak and write but soon realized that the whole process of learning a language takes various
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