The difference between sound and spelling is that sound refers to how a word is actually pronounced, while spelling is simply its written form. This distinction matters for me as a Korean learner because if I rely only on the written word, I may misp
Read more…I have been learning language even since before grade school, being surrounded by a vibrant Mexican and Dominican community. Early on, that would start with learning small words and phrases from the people I knew and TV, then it turned into class for
Read more…Figuring Foreigners Out and Hofstede’s Dimensions of Culture attempt to explain how cultural values shape the way people think, act, and interact. Figuring Foreigners Out introduces a set of building blocks for understanding cultural differences, suc
Read more…In Aitchison’s diagram on the 9th page, linguistics is presented as a field enriched by multiple disciplines, which include psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, neurology, and others. Each perspective highlights a very different aspect of
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Overall Goal
Schedule
Dail
Read more…I found Crystal’s “How the Brain Handles Language” and “How We Mean and How We Analyze Meaning” to be very interesting and informative on linguistics. I’m really curious to learn more about the connections between hand dominance and the two different
Read more…In Figuring Foreigners Out and Dimensions of Culture both attempt to explain how cultural values shape behavior, communication, and expectations. Storti emphasizes that what seems “strange” in another culture is more often than not a logical extensio
Read more…After reading Crystal’s “How the Brain Handles Language” and “How We Mean and How We Analyze Meaning” made me think about language in a way I hadn’t before. I always knew language was connected to the brain, but I didn’t realize how specific areas, l
Read more…Self-Directed Korean Learning Plan
Goal:
To reach a novice level in Korean, with the ability to speak, understand, and participate in basic
conversations (introductions, greetings, simple daily activities).
1. Structure & Schedule
● Daily Practice (3
Previously, when I was in middle school, we only had one option. Either Spanish or
Spanish. I had no option to choose whether I wanted German (The language I wanted to learn at
the time). I already knew this language since I was only allowed to speak
In my previous experiences as a language learner, I would say that I enjoyed being able to speak and interact with the language the most. When I studied Italian, my tutor would use a lot of examples from cartoons like The Simpsons and Family Guy to h
Read more…At this point in my learning, I have accomplished my goal of learning the Yiddish alphabet. It was a little difficult to pick it back up since I took a break from it, but I was able to familiarize myself with it enough to read my vocabulary words in
Read more…At this point in my learning, I hope to successfully gain new vocabulary while maintaining older vocabulary. To retain what I’ve already learned, I try to review it every other day in my spare time, alongside my new vocabulary, since I’ve added both
Read more…In my previous blog post, I mentioned vocabulary lists that I had obtained from the live online lessons I found. I have gotten through about half of the vocabulary lists, which was about 2.5 pages. The vocabulary lists are not written in Yiddish, but
Read more…I've jotted down my thoughts in a Google Doc, however, I was unsure how to upload the reflections. Hence, I shall post the monthly reflections as comments to this discussion post!
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I'm not sure where to upload the recordings of our presentation to, so I'll upload them here. Here's mine, exploring Manglish.
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