Due by 5pm on Sunday, February 23: Discussion Post #5 on the Ning
Do some preliminary research on what interests you about the target culture and describe how this topic relates to language. Do you need any special vocabulary or linguistic knowledge
Read more…When I was in Baku last summer, I would go to the same Café in the mornings. The Place was called HOMI, Coffee For You. I cannot recall the meaning of Homi, but it may have been something to do with hospitality or kindness or alms. I started going th
Read more…In the past two weeks, I learned how to spell words in Korean based on the dictation and I also learned the Korean number system. I had a lot of spelling exercises including my English name, Chinese name, daily greeting, and many other phrases. I co
Read more…When I first started learning Korean, I found it to be so difficult because of the new symbols along the new sounds of Hangul. Even if I knew what a vowel or consonant sounded like in my head, I wasn’t able to pronounce it. It was kind frustrating an
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, February 16: Discussion Post #4 on the Ning
Describe the phonetic inventory of your target language. Are there sounds in your language that don’t exist in American English? If so, provide several words and their phonetic transcr
Read more…This past week, Gabi, Dixon and I worked on reading mostly. It seems that most of our time spent together is not necessarily on learning new things, but more on the repetition and practice of speaking, which I enjoy. Gabi and I read a few short conve
Read more…Time keeps passing so quickly but I feel like I am making progress with Korean! Although it has taken me a little longer than I expected I think I’m finally getting a hang of Hangul as it is easier for me to recognize and pronounce the letters. I sti
Read more…The reading really helped me to understand the different sounds in different languages and help me to know with part of my mouth I should use to produce the sound. There are 24 letters in the Korean alphabet, 14 consonants, and 10 vowels. When I comp
Read more…Within the Portuguese language, there are some similarities and differences from English. Both languages contain consonants and vowels, however, the phonetics of some of these letters differ from each other, because of certain accents and placements
Read more…Unsurprisingly, Korean does indeed differ from English! The Korean alphabet lays the basis of the sounds of Korean. In Korean there are 14 consonants (ㄱ ㄴ ㄷ ㄹ ㅁ ㅂ ㅅ ㅇ ㅈ ㅊ ㅋ ㅌ ㅍ ㅎ) and 10 vowels (ㅏ ㅑ ㅓ ㅕ ㅗ ㅛ ㅜ ㅠ ㅡ ㅣ) for a total of 24 letters. In addi
Read more…As part of homework and classwork for my Japanese class, I have to read the news often so I can discuss about current events in class. Until now, I have been reading Japanese and English news, but I recently had an idea of integrating Vietnamese into
Read more…As Turkish goes, I have had a change of heart—not about Turkish, but the methods by which I should study it.
Upon my first meeting with Hazal, I was disappointed to learn that she was going to use the Istanbul Turkçe series. All my previous Turkish
Read more…The Vietnamese phonetic inventory is very similar to the International Phonetic Alphabet chart from the reading in that Vietnamese utilizes:
Due by 5pm on Sunday, February 9: Discussion Post #3 on the Ning
What kinds of structures do you observe in your language of study? Refer to the diagram on page 9 in Aitchison’s linguistics. How do you combine different disciplinary perspectives to f
Read more…Korean, just like every other language I have learned contains a subject, object, and verb. Among the languages I have learned, I put these languages into two different categories, subject + verb + object, which includes English, Chinese, and French,
Read more…In the study of speech, level structures such as phonetics, phonology, semantics, and grammar are the most widely used models.
Vietnamese is a tonal language. That means the meaning of a word can vary depending on how high or low of a voice is used
Read more…Similar to the reading, “How to investigate language structure”, the Persian language also has a structure to follow. The general structures include phonetics, the study of speech sounds, semantics, how meaning is expressed withing a language, gramma
Read more…In response to current events, my first Korean class this semester began with reading news articles on the Wuhan organed coronavirus. Similarly, with other countries around the globe, xenophobia and racism had exacerbated due to the spread of this in
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