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
Read more…Our lessons have been majority review and practice by reading words with 받침 [ba-t͡ɕim], considering I struggled with that for a bit. She also started to introduce particles—which I found to be even more difficult than learning about 받침 [ba-t͡ɕim]. We
Read more…As a language learner, I am really enjoying the opportunity to chart my own course in this journey. Language learning has always been really interesting to me but I always felt so discouraged because I could not keep up with the pace, but it was not
Read more…There are sounds in the Korean language that don’t exist in American English. There are five double consonants which are pronounced in a more emphasized manner of its single consonant counterpart. Not all of the consonants have double consonants, but
Read more…For our lessons we have been doing a lot of reviewing over the Korean alphabet and words to solidify my foundation. We’ve also gone over bottom characteristics which in Korean is 받침 [ba-t͡ɕim]. My instructor told me that 받침 [ba-t͡ɕim] means ‘support’
Read more…In our lessons, we worked on reviewing the simple consonants and simple vowels and also introduced the double consonants and complex vowels. My language instructor used charts again to go through the new characters and explained when its used. For co
Read more…I’m feeling especially excited to write this post because this week we had our first real lesson on Korean. Since my first goal is to be able to memorize the Korean alphabet, my instructor introduced the Korean consonants and vowels this week.
She
Read more…The main focus of our lesson was to set the goals I had for this semester and what I hope to accomplish at the end of this semester. My ultimate goal is to become more proficient in Korean and be able to hold conversations well enough where I can fre
Read more…If I had received a research grant to conduct a linguistic study on Korean and culture, I would want to investigate where the honorifics of the language derived from. Honorifics consists of four different particles that are semantically the same but
Read more…I had started to write in my target language from the first lesson. I would repeatedly practice writing down the Korean alphabet to test my memory, and also to practice writing out the characters. I would write the entire alphabet while saying the le
Read more…Languages can go extinct due to the linguistic powerhouses—English, Spanish, and Mandarin—dominating the world’s communication domain. In the article “Tribe Revives Language on Verge of Extinction, Kirk Johnson mentions a very good point, “[s]chool w
Read more…Since my presentation of my learning plan, I am able to read out words and know the Korean alphabet by heart—two things I thought were impossible. I remember when I was younger, my mother would try to get me to memorize the Korean alphabet, but it ne
Read more…The discussion of the history of the Korean language came up with my language instructor when we were going over some vocabulary. During my attempts to pronounce the words she gave me, I realized that some Korean words were pretty similar to some Jap
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