Street foods exists all over the world from China to New York. As a result, it’s not a surprise that street foods play an essential role in Vietnamese culture, especially in the southern area. Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh (Ho Chi Minh City), more commonly r
Read more…This two weeks of learning we looked at another article that talked about the unfolding corona virus in South Korea. This article described the key incident that greatly exacerbated the pandemic in South Korea, which is the 신건지 신도a cult based in Daeg
Read more…In today’s class we looked at the 2020 new Korean slangs:
얼죽코 (얼어죽어도 코트)
Doesn’t matter when it is, I want cold [Ice Coffee]
This slang is a reference to one slang we learnt last year 얼죽아: 얼어죽어도 아이스 아메리카노, which means doesn’t matter when I want Ice A
Read more…In this week’s learning we watched the first foreign film to win the academy award for Best Pictures, Parasite 기생충. The film is a black comedy social thriller that illustrated greed and class discrimination in South Korea. The Kim family live in a se
Read more…One reasons why I joined this program was to improve my writing skills, so I have delved into writing since the beginning. Typing is quite difficult in Vietnamese because of all the tone markings and diacritics and the combination of the
Read more…In this biweekly reflection I will write about what I did to compensate for no Korean lessons for two weeks due to a cancelled lesson and spring break. In order to keep with tradition, I watched a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the tit
Read more…Hi everyone!
In my presentation I discuss hierarchy and honorifics in Korea. I also included a PDF of my powerpoint I use in the video if anyone wants to look at it. Thank you so much!
Final cultural presentation: https://youtu.be/PNYTlnsJaCY
Ref
Read more…Brazilian music styles range greatly like in many cultures. Before the Portuguese settled in Brazil, there was not much information recorded about the styles of music in Brazil. Once the Portuguese settled in Brazil, they brought with them music of t
Read more…During the last couple of weeks of Korean, our little group (Jannette, Mallory, and I) joined in on a Zoom call together. We discussed how Korean had been going and shared a google document where we organized everything we learned throughout the seme
Read more…For this post, I would like to talk about the art of Turkish photographs.
Photography was one of the major technological discoveries that contributed to the rise of modernity in the 19th century. It was introduced to the lands of the Ottoman Empire
Read more…For this post, I would like to talk about the art of Turkish tiles and ceramic.
The art of Turkish ceramic tiles and ceramics occupies a pivotal position in the history of Islamic art. Its roots can be traced back to at least
Read more…For this post, I would like to talk about Turkish clothing and history behind it.
The earliest sources found in the history of Turkish clothing date back to the miniatures and wall pictures uncovered in Central Asia. Sources of 100 B.C. reveal that
Read more…This week, my language partner and I went through the present tense and some of the past tense. We also went through some examples and did some practice questions.
There are two rules for the present tense
I think the biggest insight I gained as a language learner was what kind of learner I am. I now understood why I did so poorly in Japanese during my sophomore year; I simply cannot memorize a list of vocabulary. I tried to approach Vietname
Read more…For my last Korean class, Ms. Kim and I worked on practicing daily conversations and learning grammar. I have been learning verb endings for a while. The endings would be differentiated by both the time (past/present/future) and the politeness level
Read more…A language go extinct when nobody in the world is able to speak, read, and write the language anymore. I have studied Native American History before, and many native American languages have already extinct. What happened to the native American langua
Read more…I am a huge fan of movies and TV shows and in the past few years, I have started to watch Korean movies and TV shows. There are a lot of good movies in Korea, and at the same time, those movies address social issues and Korean history. For example, t
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