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Discussion Post #7 - Due by 5pm on Sunday, March 21
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…Discussion 8 - Do Languages Go Extinct?
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…112 - Language Post #3
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…Journal #3 Spring 2021
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…ASL Learning Journal- Entry 2
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…Reflection 1
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
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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
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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…Discussion Post #4- Due by 5pm on Sunday, February 28
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…Journal #2 Spring 2021
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…Discussion Post #3
- In the Aitchison's Linguistics diagram, the center of the diagram focuses on the study of human speech sounds and expands towards phonology, syntax, semantics and so on. For my target language of Nepali, I am currently focusing on relearning Nepali
Discussion Post #3 - Due by 5pm on Sunday, February 21
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…Dicussion 3
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…Discussion Post #2 - Due by 5pm on Sunday, February 7
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…Discussion Post #3
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
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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
Read more…Due by 5pm on Friday, September 11- Post your learning plan to the Ning
See learning plan template, but enhance and elaborate, as needed. What kind of learner are you? How do you study effectively? What tasks and goals are most important to you?
In addition to posting your learning plan to the Ning, provide brief commen
Read more…Discussion Post #1 - Due by 5pm on Sunday, January 31
Reflect on the readings. Do you have any questions about the texts? Are there any claims that you find problematic? Do you think language is a purely biological phenomenon? What parts of the brain are most important for the production and comprehensi
Read more…Learning Plan
Language Plan
Ultimate Goal
My end goal for this course is to be able to properly be able to read and write in Nepali. While that sounds like a daunting task to be able to complete in just a couple of weeks, I want to break it down into small measura
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