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Cultural Post #3
Korean folklore is tales derived from different traditions and religions, such as Shamanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity. Among those, Shamanism explains the world through supernatural beings such as spirits and ghosts, with a belief tha
Read more…Turkish Cultural Post
“Turkish Stereotypes”
This week, as I was exploring Turkish culture, I came upon a Youtube video regarding Turkish,lf` stereotypes. I thought the video was interesting because I know very little regarding Turkish cultu
Read more…Bi-Weekly Language Learning Journal #5
During the two weeks of spring break, I did not meet with my language partner due to the chaotic time. However, I did spend a lot of time reviewing Hangul, subject particles, and common phrases I had learned before break which I mentioned in previous
Read more…110 Podcast Interview
Hello~
I have attached my audio podcast interview with Jenna. We used Facetime and I recorded using my phone, so I apologize that the quality isn't ideal! Thank you for a wonderful semester of SDLAP! :)
Read more…SDLC 110: Podcast Interview
Hi,
I have included my podcast interview with my language partner Jannette and my other group member Priyanka below. Thank you for watching and for a great semester of SDLC!
Link: https://youtu.be/RUQW69nErvg
Read more…Bi-Weekly Learning Journal #4
In this week’s class, we started on learning “useful expressions.” This includes greetings, self-introduction, simple questions and more. With this worksheet, I plan to learn how to start some basic daily conversation and learn more words through pra
Read more…Bi-Weekly Language Learning Journal 7
Over the past two weeks, I have continued to focus on terms for physiology/anatomy and associated verbs and actions, with a particular emphasis on the latter. It is interesting how many cultural insights studying this alone can yield; for instance, t
Read more…Cultural Post #3 - Malaysia's Recent Monumental Shift in Government
I wanted to use my 3rd cultural post to revisit Malaysian politics and discuss a little bit about the monumental shift in government that transpired at the end of February this year. Tun Mahathir Mohamad ('Tun' is an honorary title) had ruled over Ma
Read more…Cultural Post #2 - Art as a Means of Political Expression under Mahathir Mohamad, Then and Now
Given that I am currently interning at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the East Asia Exhibit, I thought it could be worthwhile to focus on the state of art in Malaysia for my second cultural artifact. In particular, I am interested in exploring h
Read more…Discussion Post #10: Research Grant Exploring Power Dynamics in Dialects of Afghanistan
Given that I have received a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of Dari in Afghanistan, I would investigate the following question:
What do different dialects of Farsi spoken in Afghanistan tell about the political and social power dynamic
Read more…Discussion Post #9: Writing in Farsi/Dari and Sentence Structures
I learned how to write in Persian early on in life. However, it had been a few years since I last wrote in Persian. My language partner, Zari, made writing a major part of our learning plan. So after most of our lessons, I am assigned to write a shor
Read more…Discussion Post #8: Languages Going Extinct and Ways to Save Them
Dr. Harrison points out a few factors that contribute to languages going extinct. These factors include the passing away of the elderly who practice the language. As a result, this contributes to a lack of speakers to speak and continue the language.
Read more…Biweekly Journal #4 Turkish
This past two weeks I reviewed a lot of vocabulary with my language partner. I learned words such as agac (tree), alkol (alcohol), araba (car), baba (dad), balik (fish), banka (bank), bay (male), bebek (baby), bilet (ticket), bilgisayar (computer), c
Read more…Bi weekly Learning #3
This week I learned grammar rules in the Turkish language. First, I learned the vowel harmony in Turkish. For the front unrounded vowels, if the vowel preceding Is either “e” or “I”, the suffix vowel is “I”. For the front rounded vowels, if the vowel
Read more…Biweekly Journal #2 Turkish
This week, I learned more common phrases and numbers in Turkish. Hazal and I reviewed common phrases that we learned last week and also added some more. I also practiced my pronunciation skills by having a conversation with Hazal. One of the conversa
Read more…Biweekly Journal #1 Turkish
This week, I had my first meeting with my language partner, Hazal. We started by learning basic greetings. I learned how to say: “hello” (merhaba), “how are you?” (Nasilsiniz), “I’m fine” (Iyiyim), “thank you” (Tesekkür ederim), and many other phrase
Read more…Bi-Weekly Language Learning Journal 1
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…Bi-Weekly Language Learning Journal 2
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…Bi-Weekly Language Learning Journal 4
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
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