During these final weeks, I have been catching up on work for classes. Naturally, as you can see me writing this journal in the last week, I tend to push assignments as far back as possible, fully knowing the stress they may cause in the future. Howe
Read more…Starting my journey to learning Portuguese, I knew I wanted to incorporate cultural elements into my learning, so as to create a more holistic experience. Gabi introduced me to Portuguese music as I have featured in another Culture Post. She also tal
Read more…In this biweekly reflection I will write about 맞춤법 or Korean grammar.In order to keep with tradition, I now watch a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the title kang’s restaurant (강식당) season 2 myself on my own time to just make sure I am
Read more…In this biweekly reflection I will write about Parasite which was the lesson one or two week before spring break. In order to keep with tradition, we watched a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the title kang’s restaurant (강식당) season 2 t
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, April 5: Discussion Post #10 on the Ning
Imagine that you have received a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of your target language and culture. How would you get started, and what would you investigate? How w
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, March 22: Discussion Post #8 on the Ning
How do languages go extinct? Respond to the readings, and reflect on what happens when a language dies? How can linguists help preserve a language? Can a ‘dead’ language ever be brought b
Read more…This week I learned about Lunar New Year. I was surprised to learn that Lunar New Year is celebrated not only in China but also Korea. I was unaware that Koreans celebrated Lunar New Year and that they go by the lunar calendar. I learned that people
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Having covered food and taekwondo in my previous cultural posts I wanted to take the focus this week to music - and no, sadly, NOT Kpop music. I chose this song because I really love music and have played instruments/sung since 2nd gra
Read more…For my final cultural research presentation, I decided to record two separate versions in both English and Malay. In addition, I've included a bilingual script so these are each easier to follow.
ENGLISH Version: https://urcapture.hosted.panopto.com
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, March 29: Discussion Post #9 on the Ning
How have you started writing in the target language? Do you prefer to type or write free hand? Have you started to see patterns emerge in the structures between words, clauses, an
Read more…For this cultural post, I wanted to focus on Kpop. Specifically the group Seo Taiji & Boys because they created the industry. They are seen as the cultural symbol that showed all the changes, not only in the culture industry, but also in the whole en
Read more…If I had a research grant to conduct a linguistic study, on Vietnamese, I think I would try to investigate the derivation in the spoken Vietnamese language – dialect. As far as I know, there are three primary dialects in Vietnamese:
For this cultural post, I wanted to focus on a traditional game called Yutnori that can be played anywhere and by all ages. During high school, one of my friends invited me to her Korean Church because there was a special gathering for a festival. I
Read more…In this class, Ms. Kim and I reviewed the Korean phrases we learned before, and we also talked about what topics to include in our podcast. For my last semester’s final presentation, I researched about the Korean satire films and the films based on t
Read more…I’ve been planning to learn the Korean menu and how to order food in Korean since my friend and I visit Korean restaurants a lot. So during this spring break, I decided to learn how to pronounce Korean food names correctly and how to order in Korean.
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, March 8: Discussion Post #7 on the Ning
Go back and watch the recording of your presentation of your learning plan on the class PanOpto collection on Blackboard. Comment briefly on how things are going. What has changed? How hav
Read more…During these weeks of studying Portuguese, I focused on relating my every-day life into Portuguese learning. I found it easy to use the current state of the world as well as it COVID-19 pandemic progressed. I read O Globo, a national newspaper based
Read more…These two weeks were quite the whirlwind. It seemed as though professors, students, families, the world was (and still is) unsure of how to handle life. For the majority of the the past couple of weeks, I have just been reorganizing my life in many d
Read more…These two weeks kickstarted the overall unprecedented transition to online learning due to the COVID-19 outbreak. My evolution class was supposed to travel to the Galapagos Islands in order to study conservation efforts such as the ecotourism, as wel
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