Episodes 7 through 9 focused more on traditional dishes and collaboration between chefs. This transition helped me understand how Korean food culture balances preservation of tradition with teamwork and harmony.
One key ingredient was 황태 (hwangtae), d
Read more…In Episodes 4 through 6, Culinary Class War shifted its focus toward regional ingredients and local specialties from across South Korea. This made my language learning feel more connected to geography and regional identity. Rather than treating ingre
Read more…When a language dies, a culture loses identity and pride. Languages go extinct when a dominant language is adopted through cultural assimilation or colonization. To preserve the language, linguistics documents with dictionaries, textbooks, recordings
Read more…Looking back at my initial learning plan, I think things are progressing steadily, though not without some adjustments. One of the biggest changes has been a shift toward more consistent, smaller daily practice on multiple tasks rather than occasiona
Read more…Languages go extinct, and die, when the number of native speakers becomes dangerously low and there is little to no written information documenting these languages to preserve its continuity. This can happen for a number of reasons, the economic nece
Read more…Languages go extinct when people stop being immersed in them and using them. This can happen through remote populations aging out and having less speakers to teach the next generation or more dominant languages being adopted in an area/community and
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Languages go extinct as their communities of speakers shrink and fewer people become able to share them (especially if, in some cases, they are not written or recorded), and as other languages begin to become used more frequently in daily life. I ha
Read more…My learning plan has evolved in several ways, and will continue to develop as I realize new practice strategies and am able to access more materials and vocabulary. We covered the basic grammar points I had outlined much more quickly than I anticipat
Read more…Everything has been going well with my learning plan. I think that I could do better regarding switching up my way of learning. In my plan I included more games and worksheets but in reality, I have been sticking to more flashcards, listening practic
Read more…Things have been going well with my learning overall. I have sincerely enjoyed my conversations with my iTalki tutor Maria (who goes by Mafi) and feel as though we have been able to have genuine conversations and establish some level of connection wh
Read more…Hebrew belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family and is part of the Semitic branch. More specifically, it is a Canaanite language. Today, Hebrew is actually the only Canaanite language still spoken. Hebrew has a very deep history that goes back tho
Read more…Korean has 14 consonants and 10 vowels that make up its basic sounds. All these sounds are simple ones that we can make a direct translation from into English. When I work with Emily, she gives me the Korean sound but with English letters or relates
Read more…For my third artifact, I picked the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are arguably one of the most important Hebrew cultural artifacts ever discovered. The scrolls were found in 12 different caves near the Dead Sea, close to a place called Qumran in Jordan. A
Read more…My task this period was to investigate Linguistic Relativity, specifically, how the Korean language's emphasis on "Woori" (We) versus "Na" (I) influences my personality. As someone who is already fluent, I’ve noticed I act differently in Korean, and
Read more…My task this period was to study the linguistic structures of Professional Persuasion. Specifically, I wanted to move away from using direct negations like "Anio" (No) or "Geugeot-eun teullyeoyo" (That is wrong) and instead master the art of the "sof
Read more…For this period, my task was to explore "untranslatable" Korean emotional concepts that don't have a direct English equivalent. My specific goal was to move past dictionary definitions of Jeong (정) and understand how it is expressed in literature and
Read more…Right now in my journey of learning Hebrew, I’ve been taking lessons on italki with my online teacher Patriz, who lives in Israel. These lessons have been a really helpful part of my routine. During our sessions we go over basic phrases like “I love
Language Journal #1
My primary task this period was to refine my ability to switch between Ban-mal (informal) and Jondaemal (formal) during high-pressure social transitions. Since I am already comfortable speaking, my specific goal was to stop "defaul
In the last month I have developed more of a schedule with my language partners, meeting twice a week on italki. I have made noticeable language gains and can feel myself becoming much more fluent in conversation again. In the year after my Boren stu
Read more…For my second cultural artifact, I decided to look deeper into the concept of Pancasila, the foundational ideology of Indonesia. Previously, I did research and wrote a thesis in Indonesian on the historical legacy of this ideology, and decided to dig
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