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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
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c ch |
k g kh |
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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
Read more…In my target language of Korean, I observe a lot of phonology, phonetics, and syntax. As stated in the reading “phonetics is followed by phonology and phonology is surrounded by syntax”. These two things together come together to form sounds and mean
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, September 22: Discussion Post #3 on the Ning
What kinds of structures do you observe in your language of study? Refer to the diagram on page 9 in Aitchison’s linguistics. How do you combine different disciplinary perspectives to
Read more…The language structure of Korean is very interesting. The grammatical structure of this language is similar with Japanese with the verb at the end of the sentence rather than Subject-verb-object, like English and Chinese. Like the example that I have
Read more…Due to my bad throat condition, I was unable to participate much verbally during our second Korean Class, but I have still learnt a lot about the basic grammatical structure of Korean, and different colors in Korean.
The Korean Language in speaking
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