The semester is almost over, and I am happy with the progress I have made over these past few months. I have decided not to continue with the SDLAP program next semester. The reason for this is because I started really looking into study abroad progr
Read more…I have been meeting with my language partner Marionna. She is from Valencia, Spain and she is a Freshman. She explained to me that Catalan is her first language but she also speaks Spanish. She also told me that in Valencia and Barcelona school is ta
Read more…I have officially started learning Catalan! I am excited to start my language journey. Dr. Soloway recommended this program and I am interested. I am a Political Science major with a Spanish minor, hoping to study abroad in Barcelona the fall of my J
Read more…I really enjoyed my independent studying this semester, and I am surprised at how well I kept on track. I think I have a really good foundation of Catalan if I were to continue learning the language in the future. I worked on my vocabulary, grammar,
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…This month I had a hard time keeping a regular routine of writing in the Korean journal my grandmother gave to me because of all the exams and essays due before Thanksgiving break.
Over the Thanksgiving break I was able to visit Maryland. I visited
Read more…For a long time, I saw French as a close relative of English because for most instances, they have similar words, pronunciation, and grammars. However, French pronunciation contains cultural specialty as well. In French, “r” is pronounced as “h” in E
Read more…According to my research, the root of French can be found in romance languages, indo-European language family. Romance languages include not only french but also languages like Spanish and Italien. My roommate is from Barcalona and he told me that th
Read more…Preserving languages is not simply sustaining the number of speakers. Based on the reading, one leading factor causing the extinction in language is speakers. In order to keep a language alive, there has to be a specific environment in which the lang
Read more…Through SDLC, it is clear that we as language learners have known more about compositions and basic theories related to languages. Since I am not a native speaker, the difficult part for me is using foreign words to break down complicated compositio
Read more…I would go to the 3-4 regions that catalan is spoken in and study the slight differences among them. I would also study how each region perceives the others; for example, people in the Barcelona area call the language “Catalan” while people in the Va
Read more…I have done a little bit of writing so far. I like to test myself and see how much I know just by free writing in my notebook and writing about whatever comes to mind. It also helps me widen my vocabulary when I don't know a word– I look it up. Ther
Read more…This month I continued to write in my notebook that my grandma gave me. I think I am getting a lot better every time I write in it. However, it kind of did get boring writing in it. I am trying to set a positive mindset to think that it is good pract
Read more…Things are going well in my language journey and I think I am making some great progress. I am focusing more on vocabulary rather than grammar which I thought I would do the opposite at the beginning of my language journey. It has definitely been int
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
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