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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Having built a foundation of Korean language learning last semester, I have updated my learning plan to achieve realistic goals, at the same time challenge myself in the process of learning a new Language. I have inco
Read more…At 3, surrounded by my extensive Chinese family from my father’s side of the family, Cantonese was my native tongue. When I turned 5, I began primarily learning and using only Vietnamese after entering kindergarten. In the 3rd grade, I mo
Read more…I admit that I was at first upset that this course exists. I wanted to jump back into Turkish. I felt something of a grudge for the first two weeks. On the first meeting day, I wore my CLS shirt to symbolize my feelings. However, no matter how I felt
Read more…As I begin studying the Korean language more carefully and analyzing the sentence structure, I became more intrigued with the relationship of formal and informal speech with the social structure and power distance. For this small research I wanted to
Read more…South Korean President Park Geun-Hyun said in her inaugural address in 2013 that “Culture in Power.” The exportation of Korean Culture through music allowed South Korea to not only profit tremendously from it, but also allows the Korean culture to be
Read more…One thing that always made me wonder and I never really understood was the Korean age. When I learnt my self-introduction at the beginning of the semester, I learnt to say how old I am: 저는 만 20(스무) 살 입니다. [I am 20 years old.] I was curious to see wh
Read more…This semester, I focused on learning about Korean culture and learning basic Korean words and phrases. Before this class, I was particularly interested in contemporary Korean cultures, such as Korean films, TV shows and K-pop music. But after a semes
Read more…Since the beginning of the semester, I have started writing in the target language. We have practiced writing down and reading short sentences as our practice for phrases and also homework. I prefer to write freehand because the Korean keyboard is di
Read more…Chuseok, 추석, is one of the biggest and most important holiday and festival of the year in Korea. The date of Chuseok is August 15th, on the date of the full moon, on the Lunar Calendar, and for 2019, it is September 13th. Traditionally, Koreans will
Read more…If I were given a research grant to conduct a linguistic study on Korean language and culture, I would investigate the history of the Korean language in relation to other languages and cultures. I would start with a brief overview of how Korean as a
Read more…I have learned a lot this semester, not only of the Korean Language but also of its culture and how to learn a new language. The SDLC 105 class really gave me more knowledge of linguistics and the basic building blocks of a language. On the other ha
Read more…According to Dr. Geert Hofstede, "Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster." Figuring Foreigners Out outlined some of the key cultural differences that could cause po
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