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
Read more…In my first Korean Class with my Learning Partner Brenda and my classmates Olivia and Amber, we first discussed the topics and areas of the Korean Language and culture that we wanted to explore. We have planned a practical class schedule that will he
Read more…In my updated learning plan, I want to emphasize spoken communication and vocabulary acquisition. Over the summer, I got a basic understanding of Korean grammar and started speaking (awkwardly and disfluently) with my mother, grandmother, and grandfa
Read more…Loan Words:
Turkish has may loan words from Arabic and Persian, many of which have been consciously “Turk-ified.” Kütüphane (library)=Kipab (Arabic, book) + Hane (Persian, house). It also has taken several French and English words. The French and Eng
Read more…Goal: comprehend basic daily communication,
can have a basic conversation with others about some simple topics.
Understand the game jargon
Can understand players’ streaming/interviews
Community partner: Professor Kim, wednesday classes
I plan to sta
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I learned a lot from these two pieces of readings. I don’t think language is a purely biological phenomenon, although biology definitely played a major part in it. For speech production
Read more…Both readings describes characteristics that various cultures presents: individualist versus Collectivist, nonverbal communication, monochronic versus polychronic, internal versus external, direct vs indirect communication. And the 6 dimensions of cu
Read more…If I am not mistaken, these two readings, along with the corresponding map derive from the same sociologist. This helps to explain the remarkable unity between the sources you assigned. The main idea of the two readings is that cultures can be compar
Read more…I organized my learning plan based on the level I’m at right now for each skill and also my level of confidence in the tasks. I want to start from the ones I have more confidence in so that I can keep passionate about the tasks and not being too frus
Read more…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 path of healthcare studies, and further appreciat
Read more…Christopher J Meike
SDLC 105
September 13, 2019
Christopher J. Meike learning plan:
Like Gual, my Turkish language deficiency can be divided into three parts:
My language background to date can be broken up into who sections, the pursuit of Latin and the pursuit of Ottoman.
Starting in seventh grade, I began my courses in Latin. I ended them in Senior year of high school in a library doing my first and o
Read more…Due by 5:00pm on Sunday, September 8: Discussion Post #1 on the Ning
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 par
Read more…The first reading discussed the composition of the brain, and the biology of language learning. The article analyzed the characteristics of specific parts of the brain, and how each individual parts contributes in forming our language learning abilit
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Tornado warning pro/cons:
Cons: You get rudely woken up in the middle of the night by one of the biggest storms you've ever experienced in your life.
Pros: You remember that you forgot to upload the learning journal
Read more…I learned about new taste words to describe food and texture. Some words don't exist in English, like "ddulbda" which is a specific unripe taste, and "gosohada" which is a smooth, nutty texture and taste. We also learned how to correctly address serv
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