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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…Pansori is a Korean musical tradition that was characterized by expressive singing, storytelling, and performing. It was generally performed by a vocalist and a single drummer. The performer will combine singing (sori) with gestures (ballim) and narr
Read more…Before diving into the Korean language and culture when I thought about Korean mostly thoughts of Kpop, intensive skincare routines, or even soju came to mind. Now that I have started studying Korean I am very excited to discover much more about Kore
Read more…For the upcoming couple of weeks after spring break, my language partner and I focused on the 3 different types of pronouns in Korean since they are used very often: interrogative, demonstrative, and personal pronouns.The interrogative and demonstrat
Read more…These past two weeks I learn a lot more about sentence structure in the Korean language with my language partner. It was familiar to me because the sentence structure was very similar to the Japanese sentence structure.
“My dog and cat-like playing w
Read more…My days and time in quarantine all blend together making it hard for me to even know what of the week it is. Ironically, the focus of my studies recently has surrounded learning about time and the days of the week in Korean. In my original learning p
Read more…Nowruz was celebrated by millions of people on the twentieth. The name of the holiday translates directly as new day, but is more often translated as new year. Interestingly, it is the spring festival that begins the new year, not as in the arbitrari
Read more…Korean fried chicken, a movie, and particles! What do these all have in common? My language partner Jannette and my fellow Korean student Priyanka and I all consumed the Korean-style fried chicken, watched a Korean movie, and learned about Korean par
Read more… Qajar Gender and Sexuality
I first became interested in the Qajar Persian dynasty after I met a man in a café in Baku on one of my last days of CLS. I was speaking English with the owner, over chay and mantu when he came up to me and started speakin
After getting settled back home I have tried to make time in my week for Korean to keep some consistency. Although I already knew that I much prefer in-person classes over online this was especially true for my SDLC meetings with Jannette. While I am
Read more…Hi everyone,
This is Mallory and I's podcast interview with Jannette, our language partner. Thank you so much for watching and for an awesome semester!
Link: https://youtu.be/RUQW69nErvg
Read more…Reflecting on my work in Persian
When I began Persian this semester, I was only familiar with the alphabet, which I had learned the semester earlier in Arabic. While I could pronounce these letters pretty well. I learned that Persians could not (joke
Read more…It is hard to believe that this is my last journal log for the semester (and thus of my college career), but I take some solace in the fact that there is plenty to write in it. I will try to avoid being sentimental until the last few lines of this po
Read more…These two weeks of spring break have thrown my SDLC plans (and the entire world) off! This was a wildly hectic time as we all left for spring break and then Coronavirus changed everything. Due to this, I was unable to meet with Jannette during this t
Read more…Phones are unitary segments of sound or speech. The phonetic inventory of Persian languages consists of different types of phones including consonants and vowels. The Persian language has six vowels and two diphthongs. Diphthongs are a combination of
Read more…This iteration of the bi-weekly language learning journal is more of a tri-weekly one, given the extra week of break because of the coronavirus outbreak (and the post is admittedly coming a little late as well because of my energy being expended towa
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