It's hard to believe that two weeks have already gone by this semester! I'm excited to be back and to catch up with my language partner, Melisa, and to be speaking Malay again. Over the break, I realized how hard it was for me to keep up my speaking,
Read more…My recent Malay lessons have been a deep-dive into grammar, which has definitely been more of an emphasis this semester compared to last. In particular, I have been learning how the structural components of affixes work in Malay and the purposes that
Read more…The past two weeks or so have been a continuation of some previous themes and topics of the semester (e.g. affixes) as well as new ones as well. This semester, Melisa has incorporated more review of previous lessons, which has been useful in helping
Read more…After some uncertainty, it turns out that Hazal is able to continue helping her three University of Richmond students. Because she had to return to Nevshehir in these circumstances, I was almost certain that she would not be able to continue the less
Read more…I learned something new recently. According to my newly acquired textbook, Vietnamese is sometimes mistakenly thought to be a monosyllabic -- a word containing only 1 syllable -- language, but that is not the case. Vietnamese words are primarily disy
Read more…Over Spring Break, my family and I traveled around Ontario, Canada. At one point, we visited my uncle, my father's brother, and his wife in Toronto, and, to my surprise, they only speaks Vietnamese. They live in a Vietnamese community in Toronto and
Read more…Languages go extinct via internal and external pressures on the language itself. An internal
pressure on a language results from a small pool of speakers resulting in a community that may be
spread out and unable to use the language in ordinary circums
While learning Korean these past weeks, I have found that I feel like I am translating things twice. It is interesting because Hangul was foreign to me so first I would have to translate the symbols of Hangul into their respective letters/sound in Ko
Read more…In the beginning of the presentation, I talk about why I wanted to study the Portuguese language. I mention how I took Dixon’s class and learned about the Portuguese Empire and current issues in Luso-Brazilian cultures. As I think about this initial
Read more…İki hafta önce Hazal ve ben sadece bir günde buluştuk çünkü Salı’da genel buluştuğumuz zamanında başka şey yapması gerekiyordu. Bu yüzden o haftada sadece Perşembe’de buluştuk. O günde biz yeni bir der kitap bölümü başladık çünkü öncedenki bolümü get
Read more…Things are going much better than I thought it would. As expected, I have encountered some obstacles tackling things like dictions due to my speaking habits. This makes reading and writing more difficult than I initially assumed, but it also shows me
Read more…I think, for the most part, my language partner and I have stayed on task about our learning plan. We have dedicated a good amount of time to reading academic and news articles in Persian. Upon reading those articles, we took the time to discuss the
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, March 1: Discussion Post #6 on the Ning
Reflect on the history of your target language. To what language family does it belong? What sounds, words, and structures exemplify periods of contact with other cultures? How do these co
Read more…During the past two weeks, I have felt a large growth in my learning of the Portuguese language. Two Fridays ago, I met with Dixon, and I read him a letter I wrote for my mom’s birthday. He helped me to correct it, and after, he gave me an excerpt of
Read more…The Portuguese language belongs to the Romance language family. The Romance language family can be potentially divided into the Western and Eastern Romance languages. The Western Romance languages can be divided based on the use of “s” for pluralizin
Read more…In the past week, I have been focusing more on diction just as I said I would. In my free time, I would either jot down words or phrases that I heard while listening to Vietnamese broadcasts or music. As expected, due to speaking habits, I still have
Read more…Vietnamese belong to the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family. As a language that was heavily influenced by Chinese, before the introduction of the Latin alphabet, Vietnamese had a writing system similar to Chinese. The former writi
Read more…These past two weeks in Turkish have given me a better understanding of where I am presently as a language learner. I am an intermediate level speaker.
Two weeks ago Hazal and planned to sit down to do a test of my language skills for a scholarship (
Read more…In this week’s korean lesson, we watched a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the title kang’s restaurant (강식당) season 2. And in the past two weeks, I was able to not only watch parasite but also able to learn (관용구) or idioms in Korean. Th
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In the past week, I watched Parasite and decided to focus on the Oscar-winning movie as my cultural artifact. Parasite won 4 Oscars including Best Picture, Directing, International Feature Film, and Writi
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