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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The things that most interests me about the target culture is the background and history of Korea as a whole. Korea is greatly influenced by Chinese and Japanese cultures which are seen (because of the wars and lots of history of fighting between the
Due by 5pm on Sunday, October 6: 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 to
Korean has series of oral stops (sounds like English p, b, t, d, k and g), affricates (sounds like English ch and j) and fricatives (sounds like English s and z), but there are differences between them. Definitely, one series (ㅂㄷㅈㅅㄱ) is unvoiced and
In my target language of Korean, there are many examples of phonetic inventory. These include nasalized final stops, plosive bilabial, plosive alveolar, plosive palatal, plosive velar, nasal bilabial, nasal alveolar, fricative alveolar, fricative glo
Turkish shares much of its phonetic qualities with English. However, it has an arguably shorter range of sound owing to the generally true rule that Turkish letters have one sound. An example of this is that A is always pronounced in the same way. Th
A Korean letter is formed with one consonant and one or more vowels. Some consonants and vowels can be added to the bottom of a letter and used as final consonants. In Korean, there is this “으” sound that doesn’t exist in American English. There are