My interest in my language is the simply desire to perfect my mother tongue. I was born in South Korea and went to elementary school there. I used to be perfectly fluent in Korean until my family came to the United States and I started speaking English way more often. As my English skills grew, my Korean worsened a little. I am still fluent in the language but not as much as I used to be. My Korean skills are not comparable to people my age in Korea because I stopped learning advanced Korean after I came to the United States. I want to restore my Korean levels and hopefully catch up with people my age in Korea using this semester.
This past summer I interned at a non-profit organization called KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. I participated in the LLSP (Law and Leadership Summer Program) through this organization. Through the internship I learned how an absence in the knowledge of the language, religion, and culture an individual comes from can prevent legal professionals from helping their client. Through this experience over the past summer, I realized that my background and identity as a Pakistan American Muslim can be very beneficial to the clients once I gain a full understanding of the language and the culture in Pakistan. I would be able to integrate my faith I come from into a career by learning the language and culture associated with Urdu.
This past summer I interned at a non-profit organization called KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. I participated in the LLSP (Law and Leadership Summer Program) through this organization. Through the internship I learned how an absence in the knowledge of the language, religion, and culture an individual comes from can prevent legal professionals from helping their client. Through this experience over the past summer, I realized that my background and identity as a Pakistan American Muslim can be very beneficial to the clients once I gain a full understanding of the language and the culture in Pakistan. I would be able to integrate my faith I come from into a career by learning the language and culture associated with Urdu.
I hope to understand an understanding of the family structure in Pakistan because I hope to work with victims of Domestic Violence. It would be helpful to know what the average household in Pakistan looks like, what the roles of the males and females are in a household to understand the power dynamic. It would be interesting to learn about how speech, tone, and physical proximity between males and females is distanced so I can keep this cultural component in mind in the future when conversing with clients who come from Pakistani culture. I am currently pursuing Anthropology minor so the topic of how Pakistani culture differs from American culture will be very interesting to me simply from an anthropological perspective.
I hope to also learn the distinction between informal and formal Urdu so that I can converse in Urdu with a variety of people. I also hope to learn how to read phrases and basic sentences so that I can read headlines or short poems that consist of a few lines. I also hope to learn how to write a few words and phrases so that I can expand on it in the future. By learning these basic skills in reading and writing I will be able to read and interpret news headlines that come up in my newsfeed from my family members and friends who reside in Pakistan.
Global Studio > Aisha FarooqNovember 22, 2016 at 12:52pm
Frankly speaking, I never imagined before I will going to learn Turkish language in my life. However, Turkey is one of my dream country to travel someday. I heard from my friends who already have been there that it is really beautiful place. Also they said Turkish people is so kind and nice and their food and coffee is also good. As a Korean, I know that Turkey is kind of 'brother country' with Korea. They helped us when we are in war situation. I want to experience about their culture which is mix of western and eastern. So someday in the future, I really want to go there, more specifically I was planning to go there next winter break just after I get the job(hopefully). While looking up the courses that I can take, I just saw the SDLC(Turkish) and think it would be great to learn some Turkish and use the languages when I go to Turkey soon. So I just start my Turkish and my focus is for traveling of course. I have never experienced Turkish in my life, so that is totally new language, so for this time, I think I cannot learn all about Turkish. So I just focused on Traveling conversation.
This semester, I hope to learn basic Turkish such as greetings, and extend it about traveling situation. I am going to make some situation that could happen in Turkey when I go there. Got some help from my language partner I can get some expressions which is proper for that.
My interest in learning Korean derived from me having difficulty communicating with my parents. The things I want to say become lost in translation and I feel that they can't understand my perspectives on what I truly mean to say. I always end up giving up what I want to say to my parents because I can't explain it in Korean. This prevents me from having a deeper connection with my parents and I feel that we always end up on different pages. Because of these frustrations, I hope to gain enough knowledge and skill in the Korean language so that I can comfortably communicate with my family.
I also want to learn more about the Korean language and the culture because I am Korean. It is a part of my identity and my background. I want to know my culture better and be better equipped in my Korean skills so that if I were to ever visit my relatives in Korea, I can communicate with ease. This semester, I hope to be able to improve my skills on interpersonal communication and listening. In the future, I hope to be comfortable enough that I can speak fluently.
I am interested in learning Korean, because it was the primary way I communicated when I was in Korea. It was my first language that I learned. I do understand Korean, but have a hard time writing or speaking. Ever since I started school at this university, texting conversations with my parents and grandparents became more common. I realized that my parents would text me in Korean while I would reply in English. Although this was still an effective way of communication between me and my parents, it wasn't very effective at all with my grandparents who knew little to no English. Every time my grandparents would send a text message, I would reply with basic english such as "yes, I am fine," and similarly simple phrases.
This semester, my main goal would be to be able to have a texting conversation in Korean with both my grandparents and parents. If I do end up achieving my goal, I would improve my writing skills and my spelling skills.
What is your interest in 'your' language and what do you hope to accomplish this semester?
Upon coming to Richmond, my global focus was primarily on the Middle East. As such, my sight was in either Arabic or Hebrew. Both languages offer great personal growth in terms of learning a new culture and point of view (as all languages do). However, there is one language that offers such growth to a great extent for me: Indonesian.
A year ago, I would have never thought Indonesian would be my language of choice. Yet, Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) enables me to grow as an individual on numerous levels.
First, learning Indonesian expands my curiosity in global affairs. As mentioned, my long-held, yet limited, deposition was in the Middle East. Indonesia -- comprising 17,000 islands -- is a proverbial goldmine for further scholarship in culture, a topic I enjoy immensely. Next, with the recent U.S. "pivot to Asia" declaration, Asia, especially South East Asia, will be a hot topic years to come.
Second, my interest in Bahasa Indonesia can be attributed to my girlfriend, who is from Bali, Indonesia. It is because of her that I am taking Indonesia, and learning about a wonderful country and its many cultures. Indonesian will allow me to communicate with her family and friends. Indonesian will allow me to have the confidence to travel throughout the country, unfettered by a language barrier.
I hope to gain a base for the language whereupon I can build from there. What I mean by this is that I can continue my studies in Indonesian during my years here at U of R so that I can become proficient in Bahasa Indonesia.
My interest in Korean began my freshman year in college (so about two years ago). If you had told me in high school that I would study the Korean language in college, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. Like many others, my interest in Korean language and culture began when one of my close friends introduced me to Korean popular culture. Something about the music and dramas captivated me and I soon learned how much of a beautiful sounding language it was (with beautiful characters as well). I started to notice certain patterns of sounds within the words and read a few articles about how learning Korean is a lot easier than a complex language (like Chinese, for example). I read many travel blogs written by people similar to me who gained an interest in Korea, eventually either studying or teaching there. Although many stop at the surface level, many others want to learn more about the history, the language, and culture. For me, what started as a mere interest transformed into genuine curiosity. I soon was introduced to delicious Korean foods, met many Korean friends who taught me more about the culture, and started self-teaching myself the language.
This semester I hope to get comfortable with speaking and interpreting Korean. I want to be able to listen to a song, podcast, or conversation, understanding some if not most of it. I hope to recognize certain verbs and be able to speak fluidly in the past, present and future tense. I also want to be able to speak about locations of certain things (where a store is located, for example), which will be very useful for me to know when I study abroad in South Korea this upcoming spring.
My interest in the Basque language stems from the fact that I have been traveling to the Basque Country every year since I was three years old. Although the culture is prevalent throughout the French Basque country, there is hardly any spoken Basque left in France. Because of this I am hoping to learn the Basque agglomerative dialect "batua," which means "united" in Basque, and is a mix of all seven of the other Basque regional dialects. While the Basque dialect that my family has spoken is Souletin, I'm hoping that by learning batua I'll be able to speak with Basques from other regions as well. This semester I am hoping to learn enough Basque to answer some basic questions about myself, like my name, where I came from, and questions about my family. Depending on how quickly I can learn that, I would like to move on from there to learn about more historical and archaeological topics, because as a history major and archaeology minor, I'd like to go to field school in the Basque country.
Personally, I have been interested in Asian culture and language for years. It was not until recently that I finally had the opportunity to pursue this interest. I started with taking Mandarin courses and teaching myself Korean on the side (since UR did not offer a formal course). I decided to switch to learning Korean full time after studying abroad in South Korea in Fall 2015. I am just fascinated by how the language sounds and how it is written. I love how it has a formality system and how unique the language is (I learned in a linguistics class freshman year that Korean is an isolative language, meaning that it has no strong connections to other languages nor a "language family" that it stemmed from, but I am not completely sure of the validity of this since there are many similarities to Chinese and Japanese, but I digress). My main point is that I love language and the Korean language has a lot of differences from English that I find very interesting. I want to learn and speak something different that not a lot of people tend gravitate towards.
This semester, I hope to learn even more about the culture and grammar and be able to have a decent length conversation. This year I want to improve my skills enough to be able to have a somewhat intelligent conversation, not necessarily about professional topics, but something besides "how is the weather today?" In the future I hope to make my way towards fluency. It may take a while, but I am sure I'll enjoy the process.
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My interest in my language is the simply desire to perfect my mother tongue. I was born in South Korea and went to elementary school there. I used to be perfectly fluent in Korean until my family came to the United States and I started speaking English way more often. As my English skills grew, my Korean worsened a little. I am still fluent in the language but not as much as I used to be. My Korean skills are not comparable to people my age in Korea because I stopped learning advanced Korean after I came to the United States. I want to restore my Korean levels and hopefully catch up with people my age in Korea using this semester.
Cultural Post #1 (SDLAP 110)
This past summer I interned at a non-profit organization called KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. I participated in the LLSP (Law and Leadership Summer Program) through this organization. Through the internship I learned how an absence in the knowledge of the language, religion, and culture an individual comes from can prevent legal professionals from helping their client. Through this experience over the past summer, I realized that my background and identity as a Pakistan American Muslim can be very beneficial to the clients once I gain a full understanding of the language and the culture in Pakistan. I would be able to integrate my faith I come from into a career by learning the language and culture associated with Urdu.
This past summer I interned at a non-profit organization called KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. I participated in the LLSP (Law and Leadership Summer Program) through this organization. Through the internship I learned how an absence in the knowledge of the language, religion, and culture an individual comes from can prevent legal professionals from helping their client. Through this experience over the past summer, I realized that my background and identity as a Pakistan American Muslim can be very beneficial to the clients once I gain a full understanding of the language and the culture in Pakistan. I would be able to integrate my faith I come from into a career by learning the language and culture associated with Urdu.
I hope to understand an understanding of the family structure in Pakistan because I hope to work with victims of Domestic Violence. It would be helpful to know what the average household in Pakistan looks like, what the roles of the males and females are in a household to understand the power dynamic. It would be interesting to learn about how speech, tone, and physical proximity between males and females is distanced so I can keep this cultural component in mind in the future when conversing with clients who come from Pakistani culture. I am currently pursuing Anthropology minor so the topic of how Pakistani culture differs from American culture will be very interesting to me simply from an anthropological perspective.
I hope to also learn the distinction between informal and formal Urdu so that I can converse in Urdu with a variety of people. I also hope to learn how to read phrases and basic sentences so that I can read headlines or short poems that consist of a few lines. I also hope to learn how to write a few words and phrases so that I can expand on it in the future. By learning these basic skills in reading and writing I will be able to read and interpret news headlines that come up in my newsfeed from my family members and friends who reside in Pakistan.
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Frankly speaking, I never imagined before I will going to learn Turkish language in my life. However, Turkey is one of my dream country to travel someday. I heard from my friends who already have been there that it is really beautiful place. Also they said Turkish people is so kind and nice and their food and coffee is also good. As a Korean, I know that Turkey is kind of 'brother country' with Korea. They helped us when we are in war situation. I want to experience about their culture which is mix of western and eastern. So someday in the future, I really want to go there, more specifically I was planning to go there next winter break just after I get the job(hopefully). While looking up the courses that I can take, I just saw the SDLC(Turkish) and think it would be great to learn some Turkish and use the languages when I go to Turkey soon. So I just start my Turkish and my focus is for traveling of course. I have never experienced Turkish in my life, so that is totally new language, so for this time, I think I cannot learn all about Turkish. So I just focused on Traveling conversation.
This semester, I hope to learn basic Turkish such as greetings, and extend it about traveling situation. I am going to make some situation that could happen in Turkey when I go there. Got some help from my language partner I can get some expressions which is proper for that.
My interest in learning Korean derived from me having difficulty communicating with my parents. The things I want to say become lost in translation and I feel that they can't understand my perspectives on what I truly mean to say. I always end up giving up what I want to say to my parents because I can't explain it in Korean. This prevents me from having a deeper connection with my parents and I feel that we always end up on different pages. Because of these frustrations, I hope to gain enough knowledge and skill in the Korean language so that I can comfortably communicate with my family.
I also want to learn more about the Korean language and the culture because I am Korean. It is a part of my identity and my background. I want to know my culture better and be better equipped in my Korean skills so that if I were to ever visit my relatives in Korea, I can communicate with ease. This semester, I hope to be able to improve my skills on interpersonal communication and listening. In the future, I hope to be comfortable enough that I can speak fluently.
I am interested in learning Korean, because it was the primary way I communicated when I was in Korea. It was my first language that I learned. I do understand Korean, but have a hard time writing or speaking. Ever since I started school at this university, texting conversations with my parents and grandparents became more common. I realized that my parents would text me in Korean while I would reply in English. Although this was still an effective way of communication between me and my parents, it wasn't very effective at all with my grandparents who knew little to no English. Every time my grandparents would send a text message, I would reply with basic english such as "yes, I am fine," and similarly simple phrases.
This semester, my main goal would be to be able to have a texting conversation in Korean with both my grandparents and parents. If I do end up achieving my goal, I would improve my writing skills and my spelling skills.
What is your interest in 'your' language and what do you hope to accomplish this semester?
Upon coming to Richmond, my global focus was primarily on the Middle East. As such, my sight was in either Arabic or Hebrew. Both languages offer great personal growth in terms of learning a new culture and point of view (as all languages do). However, there is one language that offers such growth to a great extent for me: Indonesian.
A year ago, I would have never thought Indonesian would be my language of choice. Yet, Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) enables me to grow as an individual on numerous levels.
First, learning Indonesian expands my curiosity in global affairs. As mentioned, my long-held, yet limited, deposition was in the Middle East. Indonesia -- comprising 17,000 islands -- is a proverbial goldmine for further scholarship in culture, a topic I enjoy immensely. Next, with the recent U.S. "pivot to Asia" declaration, Asia, especially South East Asia, will be a hot topic years to come.
Second, my interest in Bahasa Indonesia can be attributed to my girlfriend, who is from Bali, Indonesia. It is because of her that I am taking Indonesia, and learning about a wonderful country and its many cultures. Indonesian will allow me to communicate with her family and friends. Indonesian will allow me to have the confidence to travel throughout the country, unfettered by a language barrier.
I hope to gain a base for the language whereupon I can build from there. What I mean by this is that I can continue my studies in Indonesian during my years here at U of R so that I can become proficient in Bahasa Indonesia.
My interest in Korean began my freshman year in college (so about two years ago). If you had told me in high school that I would study the Korean language in college, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. Like many others, my interest in Korean language and culture began when one of my close friends introduced me to Korean popular culture. Something about the music and dramas captivated me and I soon learned how much of a beautiful sounding language it was (with beautiful characters as well). I started to notice certain patterns of sounds within the words and read a few articles about how learning Korean is a lot easier than a complex language (like Chinese, for example). I read many travel blogs written by people similar to me who gained an interest in Korea, eventually either studying or teaching there. Although many stop at the surface level, many others want to learn more about the history, the language, and culture. For me, what started as a mere interest transformed into genuine curiosity. I soon was introduced to delicious Korean foods, met many Korean friends who taught me more about the culture, and started self-teaching myself the language.
This semester I hope to get comfortable with speaking and interpreting Korean. I want to be able to listen to a song, podcast, or conversation, understanding some if not most of it. I hope to recognize certain verbs and be able to speak fluidly in the past, present and future tense. I also want to be able to speak about locations of certain things (where a store is located, for example), which will be very useful for me to know when I study abroad in South Korea this upcoming spring.
My interest in the Basque language stems from the fact that I have been traveling to the Basque Country every year since I was three years old. Although the culture is prevalent throughout the French Basque country, there is hardly any spoken Basque left in France. Because of this I am hoping to learn the Basque agglomerative dialect "batua," which means "united" in Basque, and is a mix of all seven of the other Basque regional dialects. While the Basque dialect that my family has spoken is Souletin, I'm hoping that by learning batua I'll be able to speak with Basques from other regions as well. This semester I am hoping to learn enough Basque to answer some basic questions about myself, like my name, where I came from, and questions about my family. Depending on how quickly I can learn that, I would like to move on from there to learn about more historical and archaeological topics, because as a history major and archaeology minor, I'd like to go to field school in the Basque country.
Personally, I have been interested in Asian culture and language for years. It was not until recently that I finally had the opportunity to pursue this interest. I started with taking Mandarin courses and teaching myself Korean on the side (since UR did not offer a formal course). I decided to switch to learning Korean full time after studying abroad in South Korea in Fall 2015. I am just fascinated by how the language sounds and how it is written. I love how it has a formality system and how unique the language is (I learned in a linguistics class freshman year that Korean is an isolative language, meaning that it has no strong connections to other languages nor a "language family" that it stemmed from, but I am not completely sure of the validity of this since there are many similarities to Chinese and Japanese, but I digress). My main point is that I love language and the Korean language has a lot of differences from English that I find very interesting. I want to learn and speak something different that not a lot of people tend gravitate towards.
This semester, I hope to learn even more about the culture and grammar and be able to have a decent length conversation. This year I want to improve my skills enough to be able to have a somewhat intelligent conversation, not necessarily about professional topics, but something besides "how is the weather today?" In the future I hope to make my way towards fluency. It may take a while, but I am sure I'll enjoy the process.