I had my first meeting with my language partner, Jenna, this week. This is my third semester taking a Korean class, so I have more things want to learn about Korea. We have a more comprehensive plan on what I am going to learn this semester.
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I really appreciated the way that Crystal simply explained the basic structure of the brain before launching into the role of a dominant hemisphere and the functions of each. I also wonder if there have been any successful detailed models of neurolin
Read more…In the chapter 27 “How the Brain Handles Language”, I found the subsection for ‘Dominance’ to be quite confusing. The example the author used for language and handedness brought more confusion than clarity with the two hemispheres. I understand that
Read more…I’ve been learning so much, so quickly! I began learning Bahasa Indonesia 2 weeks ago, and according to Duolingo’s test, I am 7% of the way through its course already! I hope to reach A2 proficiency by the end of this semester, which I know is a high
Read more…The cultural artifact that I focused on this week was Trot music. Trot (트로트), which is also known by the onomatopoeic term ppongjjak (뽕짝), is a genre of Korean pop music, known for its use of repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections. This type of musi
Read more…My first week in the SDLC program has been fairly exciting however I do not want to go in with high expectations. I wanted to just get accustomed to everything and getting into the habit of studying a language again. Obviously, in a regular classroom
Read more…This week, I had my first meeting with my learning partner, Somyung Kim. At this first Zoom meeting, I learned that I will be having group lessons with Seokjoon Han! We were able to meet and discuss around roughly eight learning topics and initial id
Read more…Hello! It is good to be back after a few months away from school and people in general. I am excited about this school year because for the second semester now, I will be taking American Sign Language (ASL). I am still fairly new to the l
Read more…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
Read more…Hi everyone! This is the link to my cultural presentation:
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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
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