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Bi-Weekly Journal #5
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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…Bi-Weekly Language Journal #5 (4/2, 4/9)
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
Read more…Bi-Weekly Language Journal #4 (3/19, 3/26)
I worked on reading and listening skills by reading the short story "A farmer and three sons" together in Korean. I compiled a list of unknown words in my journal and made sample sentences to practice using the words in context. I had Seonghye check
Read more…Bi-Weekly Language Journal #6 (4/16, 4/23)
I learned how to appropriately agree or disagree with a statement in Korean. For example, depending on how I say "Isn't it hot?", I can either respond about the content or about the statement itself. I thought this was difficult to wrap my head aroun
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Cultural Post Five:
I really like this picture, pulled from Hurriyet Daily News (a Turkish news website). It depicts the world’s largest “carpet” of live tulips, in Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul. The pattern represents Turkish rugs, one of Turkey’
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Cultural Post One:
Because Turkish uses the Latin alphabet, I’m finding it easier to learn than a character-based language. The Latin alphabet was only introduced, however, in 1928 under the rule of Ataturk, who wanted to westernize much of Turkey’s
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I usually practice writing grammar-related things in my notebook (writing out verbs for each pronoun, etc.) so that I can use proper grammar when I write full sentences. Recently, I've been trying to write down what I do each day in a journal to help
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If I received a research grant to study the Korean language, I would like to research the evolution of current Korean slang and how words are created over time. Recently, I noticed that people are starting to become more open-minded to the creation o
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It’s been a minute since I wrote a learning journal! I had to look back and see what I last wrote about to remind myself!
I am flying, if I do say so myself, through the textbook Merve’s using. We’re just starting Unit 4, which is where she said
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If I were to receive a research grant to conduct linguistic study, I think I’d do a comparative study with two languages and how they deal with gender. I’d pick one language that has a very strong concept of gender, like French or Spanish, and compa
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If I had a research grant to conduct a linguistic study on Turkish, I would study how the Turkish language reform from the early 1900's has impacted the evolution and usage of the Turkish language. The reform was established to replace Arabic and Per
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