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SDLC 105 Ning Discussion Post #5
At the beginning of the semester, when we were forming our goals for our target languages, I knew I wanted to include cultural aspects mixed in to learning the language. I chose Portuguese, because I took the Luso-Brazilian Studies course led by Dixo
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Vietnam’s food culture is a very important point of interest for me. As most of my family are either chefs or owners of some food-related business, I’ve grown up surrounded by the various Vietnamese food cultures. My mother’s side of the family are V
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For this Turkish cultural post, I decide to talk about a rather unusual sport. I will focus on Yağlı güreş, which means oil wrestling. Oil wrestling is the Turkish national sport. Wrestlers will cover themselves with olive oil. The wrestlers are call
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In these two weeks of classes, my language partner taught me more about Korean grammar and sentence structure. Korean has the same sentence structure as Japanese, Subject + Object + Verb, and just like Japanese, there are different conjugation for th
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Learning the Korean alphabet has much more difficult than I imagined. When learning Spanish, it was not that difficult to figure out the new symbols and their corresponding sounds. However, with Korean, all of the symbols are completely new to me, wi
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For the last two weeks of class, my language partner, Hazal, and I transitioned our lessons to Zoom. This was a bit difficult because we could not work on the packet at the same time, but it led to more conversation. There was a bit of internet conne
Read more…Biweekly Journal #7 Turkish
These past two weeks I learned how to state there is/are and there isn’t or aren’t statements. To state these sentence I learned that we use var, which is there is/are, and yok, which is there isn’t or aren’t. For example if I wanted to state if ther
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These past two weeks my language partner, Hazal, and I focused on asking locative questions. Buunma durumu (-da) means the locative case. If the word ends in a, i, o, and u, I learned that I add -da to the end. If the word ends in e, i, ö, or ü, I le
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These past two weeks I moved on to Unit 2 of “Nerede?” with my language partner, Hazal. Nerede? Means where is it? Therefore, on this unit, we focused on locatives in particular. First, I learned specific words that signify a locative sentence or que
Read more…SDLC 105 Reflection Post #2
As we returned to campus following winter break, I held the expectation that my final semester at UR would be the most predictably joyous in the most unpredictably, spontaneous of ways. I was enrolled in 4.25 credits, and 1.5 of those credits were in
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Religions in Korea
Before I study Korean, I have met a lot of Korean friends, and a lot of them are Protestantism, a branch of Christian. However, I did not expect that protestants made up 45% of the religious population, followed by Buddhists which
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Buchaechum (부채춤) is a traditional fan dance created by Kim Baek-bong (김백봉). It was first presented in public in 1954 and is usually performed by groups of Korean female dancers. The word “Buchae” means Fan, and “Chum” means dance. The dance was devel
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Ever since I was in grade 7, I have always been interested in Korean. My interests first came about because of my love of Korean dramas. Throughout high school, I started to get into Kpop as well. Through these outlets, I have learned about the Korea
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Recently, while reminiscing my childhood with my mother, I was reminded of a tradition that most Vietnamese people “celebrate”. Most Asian countries follows the Lunar calendar – a calendar based upon the moon’s phases – in addition to the Gregorian c
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Pop Quiz!!
Did I:
a. Really enjoy SDLC and learning Korean
b. Really REALLY enjoy SDLC and learning Korean (but still struggle sometimes)
c. Learn a lot more about Korean culture than I expected and have a fantastic experience with my langua
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Hanbok is the traditional attire in Korea. It used to be worn daily up until just 100 years ago, but now is only worn on special occasions or anniversaries. It was originally designed to facilitate ease of movement. It is semi-formal or formal attire
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