.I prefer to write freehand in my journal with the new vocabulary that I'm learning. I've also been rewriting sentences from my worksheets to ingrain how Korean sentences are normally written and to reinforce my memory and learning. I've been typing
Read more…According to the NY Times article, when settlers in the 1850s went out West on the Oregon Trail, the Native Americans were split from their tribes and were placed in arbitrary groups with other Native Americans. By sheer numbers and persistence, the
Read more…I learned about the importance of the Korean Independence movement on March 1st. We spent time reading a Korean comic that explained what happened that day through characters that went back in time. We practiced our listening skills by having Seong-
Read more…Languages can go extinct when they are not passed to younger generations and when people do not reinforce their use. People who speak endangered languages might also feel pressured to use more globalized languages with more speakers, encouraging them
Read more…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
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