Korean is linked to the Altaic languages of central Asia, a family that includes Turkish, Mongolian, and Tungusic languages of Siberia. The modern Korean writing system, hangul, was devised in 1443. Before hangul, other Korean scripts used a system o
Read more…As I have discussed in my previous discussion post, the Korean Language was created by King Sejong in 1446 to improve the overall literacy level of the Korean Population, as the official written language, Chinese, was too complicated and difficult to
Read more…During my research for my Cultural post last week, I became very intrigued in the intertwining political and cultural relationship between Korea and China. It is known that Sejong the Great (세종대왕) created Hangul in 1446, which ended the use of Chines
Read more…Languages die for many reasons. Some are political. For example, many cultures have been colonized or otherwise dominated by another culture. Often, this translated into suppressing the native culture’s mother tongue and eventually the death of the l
Read more…I have found out from my previous research on the Korean History that though the North and South Korean languages are different to some degrees, one can understand the other. However, what intrigues me is the use of loan words in Korean. The North Ko
Read more…If I was given a research grant to conduct linguistic study of Korean and Korean culture. I would start by first making a list of where the language originated and then learning more about the historical figures and buildings to learn about the cultu
Read more…If I were to get a research grant to conduct a study into Turkish, I would focus on the activities of the Turkish Language Association in the 1930’s. It was at this time that the Association began to nationalize the Ottoman language into Turkish. The
Read more…I have begun writing in Turkish. I have no preference for typing or writing. Typing is often more practical because many assignments are online these days. However, it is an aesthetic joy to play with letters. In my hand-written Turkish, the ö and ü
Read more…I prefer writing free hand over typing to practice my target language, because I can remember things easier if written out in comparison to typing them out. During my classes, Brenda, my language partner, will write out things on the board or show us
Read more…I have been mostly just writing words and short phrases in Korean. I think typing on the phone is easy and straightforward, but I haven’t typed on computer yet because I still don’t know the correspondence between letter and korean consonants/vowels.
Read more…I have written in my target language before and I still do sometimes. But because I have not officially started the self directed language learning course I have still yet to receive any comments and am still adjusting my learning plan as I keep goin
Read more…I’m taking Korean as my target language now, and it has a really interesting order of subjects and objects. In Korean, as I observed, instead of the structure “subject-verb-object”, people say “subject-object-verb.” To clarify subjects and objects, K
Read more…I found that in Korean, written language and spoken language are quite closely related. If you know how to speak Korean, then you can write out the words according to the sounds. For each word in Korean, you are just putting consonants and vowels tog
Read more…What interests me most about Turkish is usage and suffix agglutination.
Words in English are not necessarily used in the same way their Turkish counterparts are. If I want to say “I live in Bloomington,” I would say in Turkish, “Bloomington’da otur
Read more…Languages go extinct as the world become more integrated. Languages like English, Mandarin Chinese and Korean gains popularity as their representing countries became the center of commerce and source of culture outsource. On the other hand, cultures
Read more…Languages go extinct because people stop speaking them. This is typically a gradual process set in motion by some form of destabilization of traditional life. The social, political, and economic environment changes around a language community to such
Read more…For the past two weeks of class, me and my learning partner looked at the history of Korea, specifically during the Japanese Colonial Period. The official Japanese Colonial Period was between 1910 and 1945, but some historians would argue that coloni
Read more…A language fewer when less people are speaking this language, especially as their first language. A language is considered as an artifact when there is not a single person living who had grown up with it as a first language. When a language is dying,
Read more…Languages go extinct when all the speakers and the number of those who know how to make sense and speak/use the language to communicate becomes zero. This is generally because in endangered languages, the new generations of children/adult speakers ar
Read more…Looking back at the Pan Opto video on Blackboard I recorded, I do not think much has changed from then until now. This is largely because I am not studying Turkish at the moment. One thing has changed, and I should have expected it. My two friends in
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