Language Journal # 5 BTS Books
After what seemed forever my "LEARN KOREAN WITH BTS" books finally arrive at my dorm! There is a total of 4 books, all for level one, while my understanding of Korean may not entirely be at level one- the books were ac
Read more…Youtube has been one of my best resources for immersing into the cultural aspect of language learning, from further explanations of grammar usage to short clips of fun variety shows. Korean Variety shows at one point completely consumed my life and I
Read more…As a language learner and cultural explorer, I have found that I am resilient. I have found that the joy of language learning overrides my overall frustration with having a better short term memory than a long term memory. I learned the specific feat
Read more…On my way back to China, I chose to buy Asiana Airline’s flight ticker due to multiple reasons. Asiana Airlines Inc. (아시아나항공) is a South Korean airline. The airline's global headquarters is located in the capital city, Seoul. In 2019, it accounted f
Read more…There is no "developed country" like South Korea where the chaebol control all industries and the chaebol control all industries.
South Korea's Samsung, Hyundai, LG, and SK are still controlled by family firms today. Samsung is controlled by the Le
Read more…In the past two weeks, I was practicing how to respond to certain scenarios if I was in Korea. I would have to respond on the spot and Janette my language partner would tell me how a native speaker would respond. These kinds of exercises are very hel
Read more…Wow this is my last discussion on the Ning! I can’t believe it! Throughout this semester I have really enjoyed learning Indonesian and gaining more tools to teach myself other languages in the future. Many of the materials in the 105 course were very
Read more…For my last cultural journal, I’m going to focus on a traditional style of Indonesian music that has become really popular throughout the years. Kroncong, or Keroncong (Indonesian pronunciation usually skips over the e) was originally introduced to I
Read more…Korean variety shows form a large part of modern television entertainment in South Korea. In Korea, the entertainment that appeared for the public's leisure time through the industrial revolution has been expanded into a genre of popular culture in m
Read more…In the last weeks, my language partner used the variety show of my favorite k-pop groups as my listening material. Since I am at a higher level of listening, daily conversation from textbooks will be too easy for me. People in such variety shows spea
Read more…As I mentioned before, Korean is really different from English. In order to translate Korean to English better, it is also important to learn the characteristics of Korean in detail. English is a subject-verb-object (SVO) language (e.g., Andrew-studi
Read more…In order to improve my reading skills, I also used the actual weather forecast news as my reading material. The news’ title is [오늘 날씨] 전국 흐리고 곳곳에 비 또는 눈.. 기온 높아 ‘포근’ which means [Today's Weather] Cloudy nationwide, rain or snow everywhere...
The news
Read more…If I received a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of Twi in Ghana I would hope to track the way the dialect changes as the regions change and what parts of the land demarcate linguistic differences, where they begin and end. I want to lear
Read more…I have started trying to write in my target language when my instructor breaks down a word for me I try to write it in a way that makes sense in my head. It may not be the way the word is actually spelled but it tremendously assists me in my memory o
Read more…The reasons are often political, economic, or cultural in nature. Speakers of a minority language may, for example, decide that it is better for their children’s future to teach them a language that is tied to economic success. For example, I know th
Read more…I’ve always wondered about the prevalence of variety shows in South Korea. There seems to be a new one that comes out every season, and there are others that have been going on for years. The more popular shows seem to include the same handful of wel
Read more…If I get a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of my target language and culture, there are two major topics that I would want to investigate in. I would first love to investigate the Korean language itself and how it evolved or was created
Read more…A big thing I learned about myself as a language learner is that I can get easily discouraged when I set too many expectations for myself. I found the discouragement would, more often than not, negatively affect my interest in learning the language.
Read more…These past two weeks have been a lot of language learning, which is always fun! We learned about the rooms in a house, such as ruang tamu (living room), dapur (kitchen), and kamar tidur (bedroom). Casey and I practiced describing our ideal houses to
Read more…I can write in Korean but i prefer to type rather than write by hand. This is because I am used to texting my parents or my korean friends which I practice more often. Also, when you are texting the letters are already available plus if you misspell
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