I was born in China and my family moved to the U.S when I was around 14 years old. My language learning experience in China is very different from the learning experience in the U.S. Even though students are required to learn English at school, very
Read more…Week 1:
- Korean Alphabet
- Greeting/ Introduction
- Formal and informal
- Create a Korean Name
Week 2:
- Korean Alphabet
- be able to say age, hometown, Major
Week 3:
-Korean Alphabet
-Asking how others have been
-Meeting someone for the first tim
Read more…My Learning Plan
Learner Name: Han Tran |
Semester: Spring 2020 |
Language: Vietnamese |
Course: Self-Directed Language 105 and 110 |
Where are you now? What can you do? What do you know?
Use the Levels of Competence document and the LinguaFolio
Read more…I would like to talk about an aspect of Turkish and Persian culture, calligraphy. While calligraphy in the region is often referred to as Arabic calligraphy, disregarding the language which it writes and focusing on the script itself, I believe Persi
Read more…The cultural authentic artifact that I will write about in this post is korean food. I personally enjoy korean food greatly but when I talked with my other peers at the University of Richmond who also do. We found that there are not that many places
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Growing up, I have always been watching Korean shows and dramas. One of the things I have wondered about are the Korean Masks worn in the dances. In Korean, “Tal” is the word for “mask.” As lunar new year just passed, I thought this would be fittin
Read more…Turkish:
I met Hazal for the first time officially on Thursday. It says something about the importance of continuously using a language that I was waiting for her for an hour the day prior because I mixed up the two Turkish words “Çaršamba” and “Perš
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I don’t have any questions about the texts but I do find some claims problematic. For instance, I find that the claim stating that naturalism has merit in circumstances when onomatopoeia is used is questionable. Conventionalism as described by Arist
Due by 5:00pm on Sunday, January 26: Discussion Post #1 on the Ning
Reflect on the readings. Do you have any questions about the texts? Are there any claims that you find problematic? Do you think language is a purely biological phenomenon? What part
Read more…I began learning Spanish in middle school. I chose Spanish, because our school had many Spanish-speaking students. Since most of my exposure to a foreign language was with Spanish, I chose to study it. I am a pretty firm believer in the teacher havin
Read more…Although I have been intrigued by Korean for a while, this semester I have the opportunity to start learning it! Starting out has been kind of slow so far and it has mostly consisted of me googling Anki sets or Quizlet to find flashcards to start lea
Read more…I am quite the foodie and am willing to try just about anything that is not too disturbing. I think food ranks as one of the highest aspects of culture in a country or community. When I think about home, I immediately think about my favorite home-coo
Read more…Happy Year of the Rat! With Chinese New Year occurring this weekend and as a Chinese learner myself, I feel obliged to hone in on this holiday for my first cultural artifact post. Ethnically Chinese Malaysians make up over a fifth of the population o
Read more…This week, I met with my language learning partner, Branda, we talked about the learning goal, plans, and started my Korean lessons. During the class, we started with the most basic daily conversation, how to introduce myself in Korean, the Korean al
Read more…Thus far, the process to the SDLC 110 Portuguese course has begun slightly slow due to materials missing and language partner communication. I am currently waiting on the Ultimate Portuguese book to arrive, and while I do, I have been reading over th
Read more…I find the brain to be incredibly fascinating, as many others do as well. I took a comparative vertebrate anatomy course last semester, and we touched on the brain. Quite honestly, I think the school should have a course solely dedicated to the brain
Read more…In my first meeting with my tutor Jimin, we discussed my learning plan and were able to come up with 10 goals in order to reach my goals and to improve my grasp of the korean language. The ten goals I came with were to improve my writing and speaking
Read more…The readings opened my eyes to show me how the process of language truly works. It’s such a “normal” part of my life that I didn’t realize how complicated it could all be when looking at it from a neurological stance. From my previous psychology clas
Read more…In the past several years, I have heard about the usage and implementation of cochlear implants to “correct” a deaf person’s deafness. With such a phrasing, a debate encompassing the categorization of being deaf as a disability has arise
Read more…In past weeks, my partner and I have been quickly going through the elementary stuff like going over the alphabets and basic everyday words. On top of it, we have also been talking primarily in Vietnamese rather than English. I have f
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