I revised my initial learning plan by adding more goals and details after meeting with Dr. Marsh-Soloway. I like the pace that I'm going so far. Though I deviated from my learning plan since then, I believe I am making progress. I made a suggestion t
Read more…So far, I am very satisfied with my language learning process. I am learning at a faster pace than I had anticipated, and I feel like I have a better grasp of grammar than I didd during my previous foreign language learning endeavors. When I was lear
Read more…Learning Turkish has been going well! I’ve definitely deviated from the learning plan in a few ways, but I think I’m mostly staying on track with my goals. I’m not going by my weekly goals that I had laid out in the learning plan, because Merve has
Read more…Turkey has an extensive history marked by various cultural and linguistic interactions that have shaped the Turkish language that exists today. Turkish belongs to the Turkic language family, which includes languages like Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Uyghur, T
Read more…Turkish belongs to the Turkic language family, and is the most widely spoken language in this family. 43% of Turkic-language speakers have Turkish as their native tongue, with Azeri (15%) and Uzbek (14%) as the next more popular. Turkic languages a
Read more…Understanding language families can help us gain a quick grasp of the relationship between languages. Mastery in one language can help master other languages in the same group. Linguists keep track of languages through language family trees to see ho
Read more…For my cultural project, I think I want to examine the tea culture in Turkey. As an avid tea-drinker myself, surrounded by a family who also drinks tea like there’s no tomorrow, I’m interested in discovering how the Turkish tea culture differentiat
Read more…I really want to do my project on Turkish cultural interactions because I find it fascinating to see the similarities and differences between the cultures I already have exposure to. I plan to research things such as nonverbal communication and non-l
Read more…I wanted to learn Turkish because of the history associated with the language, the primary country, and its’ connection to Eurasia. I also picked Turkish because it is written in Latin script. The written alphabet is almost the same in English, excep
Read more…For my culture project, I would like to examine the cultural influence of rice cakes (or pronounced "tteok" in Korean). When Korean culture is mentioned in the U.S, I realized that most of the topic of conversation revolves around kimchi and Kpop or
Read more…I’ve been working with Merve for a few weeks now, and I’m still enjoying learning Turkish! I’m slowly starting to increase my vocabulary and knowledge of Turkish pronunciation. I can now look at a word and, for the most part, sound it out correctly.
Read more…This week, I have learned to expand my vocabulary regarding colors. Besides the normal colors (i.e. red, black, blue), I've expanded to more specific colors like navy, light brown, and neon. I'm not used to learning more than the usual primary colors
Read more…I learned descriptive personality words and learned to sing a shark song in Korean. I have also learned words to describe different places I would go to (i.e. marketplace, department store). I have also learned to appropriately describe someone's per
Read more…My learning plan is mostly centered on the basic acquisition of fluency and literacy skills. Since I am a complete beginner in nearly all aspects regarding the Korean language, I think my focus this semester should be on le
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