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When I did some preliminary research about my target culture I found some interesting facts. I found out that Koreans believe that direct eye contact during a conversation shows boldness however it is very impolite to have a conversation avoiding eye
Read more…110 Journal Entry 3
I have really been enjoying the new weekly schedule with Farida. Meeting three times a week and doing my independent study of the language for the other two days is much less stressful and easier to balance than meeting for five times each week. Our
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Korean phonetics is based on Hangul. Korean has 19 consonant phonemes and there are three segments which are: plain, tense, and aspirated. Korean consonants also have three principal positional allophones: initial, medial, and final. As for vowels, K
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Korean is a really unique language in which phonetics makes up the entire writing system, so in order to speak or read you need to have a firm understanding of phonetics. A historical tall tale on how the Hangul, the Korean writing system, was create
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For these two week of SDLAP 112 lecture, I met with my language partner Somyung and Joon over Zoom last week and this week. We started off our lesson by talking about how our weeks were in Korean. This was in an effort to start practicing one of our
Read more…111 - Bi-Weekly Language Post #3
For the last week, I have been continuing my indulgence in Vietnamese media at the urging of my study partner. However, I have moved on from musical entertainment and reality television to something like the food network. Logan and I have been watchi
Read more…Discussion Post #4- Due by 5pm on Sunday, September 27
1) Read G. Hudson, “Phonetics” in Essential Introductory Linguistics, pp. 20-42.
Describe the phonetic inventory of your target language. Are there sounds in your language that don’t exist in American English? If so, provide several words and corres
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Describe the phonetic inventory of your target language. Are there sounds in your language that don’t exist in American English? If so, provide several words and their phonetic transcriptions of words as examples to support your argument. What do you
Read more…SDLAP 105 Discusison #4
My target language is Korean and Korean is based on the X-SAMPA notation. Korean is based off of hangul which already is in phonetic alphabet form. The consonant phonemes are a contrast between invoice segments which follow the stop and affricate typ
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Outside of my Bahasa Indonesia class I read about the many common celebrations in Indonesia. I was very intrigued by some of these holidays and wrote this passage in Bahasa Indonesia:
Ada banyak perayaan di Indonesia! Saya berfikir bawhwa tradisi di
Read more…SDLAP 105 Discussion #3
I think in terms of my target language I will focus on phonetics the least because technically my native language and seem to be able to understand all of the phonology. I think I will strive to focus on the semantics of the language because I have n
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Currently, I am not learning a language this semester. But from my previous experience of learning Spanish I learned from knowing the vocabulary first then trying to fit those into grammar structures or semantics. But I think it would not be a bad i
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Last week we updated our syllabus for learning Indonesian. I spoke to Farida, my language partner, and expressed that I would really like to start using the language more. For the first few weeks of the semester we really focused on learning new word
Read more…SDLAP 105 Discussion #3
In Bahasa Indonesia, there are certain sounds that are associated with meaning parts of speech. For example, the suffix ‘an’ can be added to the end of a verb to make it a noun, such as how ‘to eat’ or ‘makan’ can be made into food, or ‘makanan.’ I h
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The reading was very helpful breaking down the parts of language but also as a tool to help identify which target area I need to study and understand more. Language can be very complex and interconnected with various parts, that as language speakers
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What kinds of structures do you observe in your language of study? 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? D
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It was interesting this week to dive into the cultural differences and looking at the Hofstede Insights tool. The reading did a good job of breaking down the different types and sections of "cultural differences", ranging from collectivism vs. indivi
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This week I tried a new learning strategy by making a playlist with songs in Korean, that I had listened to prior and wanted to learn more about. I started by listening to them daily and oftentimes leaving the playlist on repeat in the background whi
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Figuring Foreigners Out talks about the difference in how people interact with each other within other cultures. It talks about individualists, collectivists, nonverbal communication, monochronic, polychronic, internal, external, and direct and indir
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