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…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…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…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…Thinking about the discussion of whether languages go extinct, I definitely think that languages do go extinct. Knowing from personal languages that I speak, there are definitely languages that are slowly becoming less and less common.
I think there
Read more…For the past month, I have been meeting with Logan remotely. We talked about whether the introduction of other media in the lesson was valuable, and I said I thought it was. I think watching movies and reality television is the closest thing one can
Read more…For the past roughly month of SDLAP 113 lecture, I met with my language partner Somyung and Warren Chae over Zoom. We started off our lessons and returned to the same concept of speaking in only Korean with occasional English only for words that we d
Read more…Hello everyone!
The second half of February came with some difficult decisions pertaining to our ASL learning setup. Nibras and I realized two things: having students of different ASL comprehension levels in the same class was not working, and we had
Read more…Growing up, I was introduced to multiple different languages and was expected to learn those languages simultaneously. Growing up in Nepal, I was learning Nepali and English at school alongside Newari, which is the languages spoken by a smaller group
Read more…As someone who moved to the United States at the age of 9, a big aspect of Nepali culture that I personally feel that I missed out on has been the Nepali folk culture. In many cases, especially the smaller towns and villages, folk displays of art suc
Read more…In terms of sound and spelling, a certain way of spelling a word in a way dictates the type of sound that the spelling generates. In a broader sense though, the way something is spelled might not be the exact way that it sounds compared to the way i
Read more…What is the difference between sound and spelling? Why is this distinction significant for your language-learning efforts? Describe the phonetic inventory of your target language. Are there sounds in your language that don’t exist in American English
Read more…For the past roughly month of SDLAP 113 lecture, I met with my language partner Somyung and over Zoom. We started off our lessons and returned to the same concept of speaking in only Korean with occasional English only for words that we do not know w
Read more…Refer to the diagram on page 9 in Aitchison’s linguistics. How do you combine different disciplinary perspectives to formulate a more holistic understanding of your target language? Do you give preference to one disciplinary approach over the others?
Read more…Refer to the diagram on page 9 in Aitchison’s linguistics. How do you combine different disciplinary perspectives to formulate a more holistic understanding of your target language? Do you give preference to one disciplinary approach over the others?
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…Having read D.Crystal’s “How to Investigate Language Structure” and Jean Aitchison’s “Aitchison’s Linguistics,” I am now more knowledgeable about the discipline of linguistics as a whole as well as its many sub-divisions or strata—namely phonetics
Read more…In “Figuring Foreigners Out”, the authors write about how each culture is unique based around five fundamental metrices. It is noted that people/groups within cultures will have some variations around the spectrum based on circumstances and the in
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