Being a native Spanish speaker has always been extremely useful in my life and has helped me greatly to connect with other people. I often feel as though my personality changes when I speak a different language. I have never had to worry about my acc
Read more…I had taken Spanish all throughout middle school and the higher-level courses in high school, but I was miserable throughout all of it. The classes were to build up my high school transcript for college, so it was never for personal interest. I merel
Read more…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
Read more…For our final two classes we look at a few grammar rules. Last semester we learned how to use the conjunction 이다 (ida) which is connected to a noun. The first week we looked at 있다 (itda), which is only slightly different. 있다operates more like an adje
Read more…For these two classes we watched a popular Korean Television show 신서유기or New Journey to the west. It is a travel reality show that has been on for 7 seasons. It gained wide popularity with the uniqueness of the games and hilarious events that occurre
Read more…Lately, I have continued to explore affixes in Malay and am slowly getting more comfortable using and understanding them in ordinary speech. I have also gotten considerably better at recognizing roots and deconstructing unfamiliar words to make sense
Read more…For my final cultural artifact post, I thought that I would touch upon something that has been heavily covered in the Western media over the past several weeks: the sexist advice from the Malaysian Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development
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Read more…My language partner had taught me how to write in Korean at the very beginning of our lesson. However, I still can’t type in Korean because I do not have a Korean keyboard. Unlike Japanese, there is Romanized the alphabet for Japanese and we can just
Read more…In the past weeks, to prepare for my teaching presentation as well as to learn more about the language itself, I started to delve into more grammar and history related studies. A few things I learned include Vietnamese grammar patterns and a brief hi
Read more…During these days in quarantine, the lessons with Mallory and I’s language partner, Jannette, have been a little different than in the past. We have been meeting on Zoom. Although our weekly little story time lesson from the book Jannette would brin
Read more…Doljanchi (돌잔치) and Birthdays (생일 - saengil)
Let’s talk about birthdays! Birthdays tend to be happy occasions and are celebrated across culture. There is also a certain component of tradition to birthdays. Whether or not you’re someone who enjoys ce
Read more…If I received a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of Korean, one of the first things I will do is move to Korea and live there for a period of time and travel around in Korea. When I first studied English, I did not learn much when I was i
Read more…In a study of the Portuguese language and cultures, I would want to compare and contrast the different nations that speak Portuguese. Since the Portuguese Empire colonized communities dispersed all over the globe, the language is also spread across t
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Surprising, South Korea has one of the world’s biggest drinking population ratio in the world, with an estimated 1.6 million alcoholics. The Journal of Korean Medical Science reports than every night about 6 million South Korean drink 9.35 million
Read more…The article that I read for a few of my classes on Parasite sparked my interest in the South Korea class discrimination. After some research I found that the wealth gap and the power struggle in South Korea might be more significant that the film hav
Read more…I am also taking a course on Japanese Colonialism this semester that talks about Japanese colonial control over Korea from 1910 to the end of the second world war, and I want to talk about the influence of Japan over Korea in this culture post.
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Read more…This week we looked at another new news event in Korea which shook the international community, the nth room. More than 2million people have petitioned to the Korean government to fully disclose the Nth room (n번방) suspects and put them on a press pho
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