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
Read more…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
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