For our last two weeks, Logan and I started focusing on historical studies in preparations for my final cultural presentation. Our activities now focus on different regions in Vietnam. The country is historically divided into three main regions: Nort
Read more…In this week’s class, we reviewed consonants and vowels and practiced combining them together to spell out different words. Ms. Kim wrote the vowels in a row and showed us how they would sound like when combined with different consonants. We learned
Read more…In the spirit of Lunar New Year this past weekend, I want to talk about traditional Vietnamese fashion. Traditionally speaking, Vietnamese fashion was heavily influenced by Chinese’s style clothing. The most famous style today is arguably the modern
Read more…The topics that Melisa and I have been working on most closely as of late are 'Tubuh Badan' (body parts). This is an essential part of learning any language, and I have made sure to pay special attention to how reduplication does or does not affect t
Read more…In this biweekly reflection I will write about some more 맞춤법 or Korean grammar that we did not get to touch on in class, 훈민정음 the correct and proper sounds of the Korean language, and 한글날 or Korea Day.In order to keep with tradition, I now watch a li
Read more…During these final weeks, I have been catching up on work for classes. Naturally, as you can see me writing this journal in the last week, I tend to push assignments as far back as possible, fully knowing the stress they may cause in the future. Howe
Read more…Starting my journey to learning Portuguese, I knew I wanted to incorporate cultural elements into my learning, so as to create a more holistic experience. Gabi introduced me to Portuguese music as I have featured in another Culture Post. She also tal
Read more…In this biweekly reflection I will write about 맞춤법 or Korean grammar.In order to keep with tradition, I now watch a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the title kang’s restaurant (강식당) season 2 myself on my own time to just make sure I am
Read more…In this biweekly reflection I will write about Parasite which was the lesson one or two week before spring break. In order to keep with tradition, we watched a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the title kang’s restaurant (강식당) season 2 t
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, April 5: Discussion Post #10 on the Ning
Imagine that you have received a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of your target language and culture. How would you get started, and what would you investigate? How w
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, March 22: Discussion Post #8 on the Ning
How do languages go extinct? Respond to the readings, and reflect on what happens when a language dies? How can linguists help preserve a language? Can a ‘dead’ language ever be brought b
Read more…This week I learned about Lunar New Year. I was surprised to learn that Lunar New Year is celebrated not only in China but also Korea. I was unaware that Koreans celebrated Lunar New Year and that they go by the lunar calendar. I learned that people
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Having covered food and taekwondo in my previous cultural posts I wanted to take the focus this week to music - and no, sadly, NOT Kpop music. I chose this song because I really love music and have played instruments/sung since 2nd gra
Read more…For my final cultural research presentation, I decided to record two separate versions in both English and Malay. In addition, I've included a bilingual script so these are each easier to follow.
ENGLISH Version: https://urcapture.hosted.panopto.com
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, March 29: Discussion Post #9 on the Ning
How have you started writing in the target language? Do you prefer to type or write free hand? Have you started to see patterns emerge in the structures between words, clauses, an
Read more…For this cultural post, I wanted to focus on Kpop. Specifically the group Seo Taiji & Boys because they created the industry. They are seen as the cultural symbol that showed all the changes, not only in the culture industry, but also in the whole en
Read more…If I had a research grant to conduct a linguistic study, on Vietnamese, I think I would try to investigate the derivation in the spoken Vietnamese language – dialect. As far as I know, there are three primary dialects in Vietnamese:
For this cultural post, I wanted to focus on a traditional game called Yutnori that can be played anywhere and by all ages. During high school, one of my friends invited me to her Korean Church because there was a special gathering for a festival. I
Read more…In this class, Ms. Kim and I reviewed the Korean phrases we learned before, and we also talked about what topics to include in our podcast. For my last semester’s final presentation, I researched about the Korean satire films and the films based on t
Read more…I’ve been planning to learn the Korean menu and how to order food in Korean since my friend and I visit Korean restaurants a lot. So during this spring break, I decided to learn how to pronounce Korean food names correctly and how to order in Korean.
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