Over the past two weeks, my language learning has shifted from the memorization of isolated vocabulary toward the structural "glue" that gives the Korean language its unique narrative flow. My primary tasks involved a deep dive into sentence-final en
If I were awarded a research grant, I would investigate "The Negotiation of Social Distance in Digital Korean." As a mid-level learner from a Chinese linguistic background, I am fascinated by how the rigid social hierarchies of the Korean language tr
Writing in Korean has been a completely different experience than I expected. Coming from a Chinese background, I thought the shared vocabulary (Hanja) would be my biggest advantage. While it does help me recognize words, I’ve realized that the "soul
Read more…Languages go extinct when communities stop using them in daily life, often due to pressure from dominant languages, colonization, globalization, or lack of institutional support. The video and reading both highlight how younger generations may shift
Read more…Not all bilingual speakers are the same. Firstly, according to Barto-Sisamout and Nicol, “because language is intimately tied to culture and one’s sense of group, bilingual people may have a more complex and multifaceted sense of self and group than
Read more…If I got a research grant for a linguistic study of Hebrew, I would want to explore the “new” words in Modern Hebrew, the ones that didn’t exist in Biblical Hebrew and had to be created. Words like “car” or “newspaper” didn't exist thousands of years
Read more…If I were to receive a research grant to do linguistic research on Korean, I would begin by focusing on their social hierarchy and how that respect affects their everyday communication. I would have to review any existing research about what Korean p
Read more…Right now, learning Hebrew is going well, although it definitely has some challenges. One of the biggest issues for me so far has been the alphabet. Unlike English, Hebrew uses an entirely different alphabet, with new letters and symbols that I am st
Read more…The topic of languages going extinct is actually perfect for my target language. Biblical Hebrew is a sleeping language ( kind of similar to Latin), AKA no one casually speaks it in everyday conversation, but it’s not lost or forgotten. It still exis
Read more…I would begin by investigating the different dialects within Spanish and specifically how they differ geographically between North America/Mexico, South and Central America, and Spain. I would get started using the book that Dr. Marsh-Soloway generou
Read more…If I receive a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of my target language and culture, I would love to look at the different dialects and how they are changing. In class, we talked about how the accent in Iowa is one of the most basic accents
Read more…I would love to receive a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of Bahasa Indonesia and Indonesian culture. If I were to receive such a grant, I would first plan to live in Indonesia for as long as possible. Total immersion would aid my lingui
Read more…Unfortunately, languages have gone extinct, and there are fears that half of the world’s seven thousand languages could go extinct in the next one hundred years. Elders almost exclusively speak many indigenous and at-risk languages. In these cases, l
Read more…As a beginning language learner, I would be curious to compare learning styles and strategies across English and Mandarin. I would try to study language learning for children growing up speaking only English and only Mandarin, and then compare langua
Read more…My language learning has continued along a mostly similar path to the strategies described in my last post. However, I do feel that I have learned more about making small but impactful adjustments that can improve my development and introduce me to m
Read more…If I were to receive a research grant, the first thing I would do is find a connection to Russian culture itself. While doing online research is great, I would want to be physically in the culture I am researching. In turn, I would apply for the appr
Read more…So far this month, my Language Learning Partner, Kimmi Kraus, and I have continued to deepen my understanding of ASL by exploring several different linguistic as well as cultural concepts. These concepts included classifiers, noun-verb pairs, tempora
Read more…In February my Language Learning Partner and I conquered the more grammatical and morphological components of American Sign Language (ASL) while continuing to expand my vocabulary and overall confidence signing, a phase that was particularly meaningf
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