I found that in Korean, written language and spoken language are quite closely related. If you know how to speak Korean, then you can write out the words according to the sounds. For each word in Korean, you are just putting consonants and vowels tog
Read more…What interests me most about Turkish is usage and suffix agglutination.
Words in English are not necessarily used in the same way their Turkish counterparts are. If I want to say “I live in Bloomington,” I would say in Turkish, “Bloomington’da otur
Read more…Languages go extinct as the world become more integrated. Languages like English, Mandarin Chinese and Korean gains popularity as their representing countries became the center of commerce and source of culture outsource. On the other hand, cultures
Read more…Languages go extinct because people stop speaking them. This is typically a gradual process set in motion by some form of destabilization of traditional life. The social, political, and economic environment changes around a language community to such
Read more…For the past two weeks of class, me and my learning partner looked at the history of Korea, specifically during the Japanese Colonial Period. The official Japanese Colonial Period was between 1910 and 1945, but some historians would argue that coloni
Read more…A language fewer when less people are speaking this language, especially as their first language. A language is considered as an artifact when there is not a single person living who had grown up with it as a first language. When a language is dying,
Read more…Languages go extinct when all the speakers and the number of those who know how to make sense and speak/use the language to communicate becomes zero. This is generally because in endangered languages, the new generations of children/adult speakers ar
Read more…Looking back at the Pan Opto video on Blackboard I recorded, I do not think much has changed from then until now. This is largely because I am not studying Turkish at the moment. One thing has changed, and I should have expected it. My two friends in
Read more…I feel that the linguistic knowledge we obtain from class definitely has been helpful for my korean learning. For example, Professor Kim has been using the international phonetic alphabet to teach us Hanguel and pronunciation of words in Korean class
Read more…Looking at the video presentation at the beginning of the semester, I am fairly pleased with my progress on my learning plan. I have learnt and completed more than I have expected, and went beyond my plans. My Learning Plan included the most basic co
Read more…My Korean class has been really good on track of my language learning plan presented at the start of the semester. We have worked through self-introduction, weather (my Task 1), description of my room, and also the menu items I like from South Korea
Read more…My original learning plan was this right here: My learning plan for korean includes learning more vocabulary and practicing speaking and writing in order to further understand how the history of korea, more professional jargon related to my career pa
Read more…As a language learner, I really enjoyed emerging myself into the culture and getting a better understanding of traditions and how the language evolved. I enjoyed being able to put my skills to use and practice with other speakers because it really he
Read more…When we have planned our syllabus at the start of the semester, me and my classmates all really wanted to learn about tourism in Korea. We’ve have all been very fascinated with the Korean Culture and want to visit South Korea in the near future, and
Read more…Korean belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family according to the links provided in the readings as it is a part of Asia. But the related link states that Mandarin Chinese is classified as Sino-Tibetan which is most similar to Korean from the very
Read more…Korean belongs to the Koreanic language family. Modern Korean language descends from Old Korean. In the first century BC, Chinese characters arrived in Korea and were adapted. As a result, the pronunciation of many Korean words sounds indeed familiar
Read more…The language I am learning is Istanbul Türkçe. It is the more formal variant Turkish and the official language of the modern nation-state of Turkey.
It’s ancestor, Proto-Turkic, is said to have originated around 1000BCE in the region that is now mode
Read more…I found this great article written by a Korean with the title “Why are Koreans Good at Games? - The Story Behind History and Culture”. I started to learn Korean because of the game I am playing and the professional players I like who are from South K
Read more…During the third week of our class, we have decided as a group to learn the basic conversation used in Restaurants. I think this would be very useful because I am planning to travel to South Korea with my family in the near future, and I also get to
Read more…I’m very interested in Korean festivals or holidays. There are a few similar festivals between Korea and China, but the traditions for each festival are usually different. To understand the tradition and history of all the holidays, I need to know mo
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