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...
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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
Read more…Twi, also known as Akan Kasa, is a dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana by several million people, mainly of the Akan people, the largest of the seventeen major ethnic groups in Ghana. The Niger-Congo languages are the wo
Read more…Like many other Asian countries, Vietnamese culture contains numerous superstitions. Growing up in Vietnam, I learned about these superstitions from a very young age. Most of the superstitions tend to revolve around luck.
The first superstitious bel
Read more…For the final two week of SDLAP 112 lecture, I met with my language partner Somyung and Joon over Zoom on Friday. We started off our lesson by talking about how our weeks were in Korean once again and for the final time. This was in an effort to cont
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…During my research for my Final Cultural Presentation, I came across the word chaebol, 재벌 [t͡ɕæ-bol], a fair amount of times. Chaebols are large, family-controlled conglomerates that have dominated the country’s economy for decades. The one I’ll be f
Read more…Our last few lessons were essentially review of everything we did this semester and also recorded the “Podcast Interview” during our last lesson (audio_only.m4a). Considering that my instructor had to teach me a language all over zoom, I’d say we had
Read more…We have been reviewing past material with heavy emphasis on particles. We watched another video (https://youtu.be/XOy8bBId3zU) that’s about 13-minutes long, just to review and have a constant refresher about the rules for particles. During our lesson
Read more…We have been working on numbers and currencies (Korean number and currency), how to do self-introductions (에리카), the different tenses, and vocabulary from the document my instructor had prepared. I was pretty excited because I cannot understand numbe
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