Crystal mentioned many things in her article that intrigued the way I think about language and language learning. Something I never really thought about was the difference between sense and reference when it comes to learning a new language or new wo
Read more…This is my podcast interview with my community language partner, Rachel.
Read more…This month has been busy for both of us, me and Rachel, so we did not organize any cultural experiences but focused on Korean language learning. As I planned to re-learn the Korean language in order to bring my personal learning experience as a nativ
Read more…As a country where collectivism is dominant, television broadcasting has been at the forefront of mass media and popular culture. While radio broadcasting, newspaper, and numerous media have risen and fallen, television broadcasting still lasts as th
Read more…My Korean self-study with Rachel this month has been a bit different from the experience I had last month because we not only discussed academic topics but also K-drama and its culture. “The Glory Part 2”, a long-awaited Netflix series, was released
Read more…If one considers population density in Korea, it is not surprising that delivery service is widely used in Korea, allowing people to be close to everything, including restaurants. Interestingly, there were some historical records that there were paid
Read more…This month we had a cultural experience with Korean cuisine, which I was not familiar with although I was bred in Korea. Since Somyung had some sweet potatoes, we decided to cook sweet potato mattang (고구마 맛탕). Before we got started cooking, we made r
Read more…It is famously known that the Korean peninsula has been divided after the Korean war outbroken due to differences in political ideology. It happened in the early morning of July 25th, 1950 by the invasion of North Korea, which continued for more than
Read more…Here is the link to my final portfolio for SDLC 111!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qh4-3x8gdGdhEJOCuqFDj4FeVChDXh9ljW_tkO-g-MU/edit?usp=sharing
Read more…During this month, My language partner and I watched “The Glory” to maintain our listening practice for the language. “The Glory” is a Korean drama that came out in December 2022. It is about a former victim of school violence who seeks revenge on he
Read more…Firstly, I found out that compared to English, it is really easy to find which word is for a subject, object, verb, etc. in Korean since prepositional particles follow most sentence components. However, there is common structural order that is freque
Read more…How have you started writing in the target language? Do you prefer to type or write free hand? Have you started to see patterns emerge in the structures between words, clauses, and sentences? What is the relationship between simple and complex senten
Read more…I appreciate the fact that the US is a country where people from all around the world gather together so that cultures mingle with others. I have never tried evaluating dimensions of various cultures this deeply before reading the passage “Figuring F
Read more…Languages go extinct when major languages such as English, Spanish or Mandarin dominate global communication. Often, languages disappear for more morbid reasons, when the population of native speakers also dies out. This can be due to colonization or
Read more…The story of the Siletz Dee-ni Native American tribal language demonstrates how languages go extinct and the enduring processes they must undergo to be revitalized. Languages, I would assume more often than not die out slowly rather than quickly. Whe
Read more…Now that Korea has gained cultural power to some extent than before, I have been thinking about what causes significant differences from other cultures while they all affect each other organically. One of the factors I came up with was language. If I
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