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. We started off with this article in order to get some context for words we are going to learn and use in normal every
I remember going over topics such as ingroup and outgroup in psychology class last year, but we talked about it by looking into one society. Through Figuring Foreigners Out, I thought the most intriguing culture differences was the concept of individ
I had my first Korean lesson with Ms. Sumi Kim this week. We first started by discussing what sparked our interest in Korean and what would be the goals for us this semester. Personally I want to be able to converse in basic Korean by the end of the
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
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
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
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
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
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 theNing
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
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
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
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
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
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