Do some preliminary research on what most interests you about the target culture, and describe how this topic relates to language.
One topic that interests me about Indian culture is how prevalent the Hindi language is within India and how different
Read more…This week Atul and I focused mostly on the list of topics I gave him that I wanted to cover. These are random topics but probably important and common words I should learn. We continue to focus on the difference between the words "main" which is in r
Read more…Describe the phonetic inventory of your target language. Are there sounds in your language that don't exist in English? Provide several phonetic transcriptions of important words.
The vowels in Hindi follow a more open-mouth sound based on the inte
Read more…This week Atul and I worked on learning the simple past tense for the verbs we have gone over for the past 2 weeks. Simple past was a little difficult for me because there are a few irregular verbs that had completely different conjugations from thei
Read more…How would you qualify or describe different aspects of your target culture? Reflect and your own experiences and expectations of the culture in question.
For the Hindi language I focus mostly on Indian culture because that is the culture I know most
Read more…This week Atul and I worked on 10 new verbs and their conjugations. We have been focusing on present and future continuous forms of the verbs and next week we will start looking at simple past because it's a little more complicated. We also went over
Read more…How have you organized your self-directed learning plan, and what have you learned so far?
I organized my self-directed learning plan by first having clear, attainable goals and then writing down 10 tasks that would help me achieve the goals. The tas
How have you organized your self-directed learning plan, and what have you learned so far?
I organized my learning plan in a way that focuses on the practical uses of Hindi. I intend to use Hindi in conversational speaking and text messaging contexts
Read more…This week Atul and I laid a lot of good groundwork for the rest of the semester. As we decided last week, we wanted to increase my vocabulary by learning new verbs. Atul decided it would be best if I learned 10 new verbs each week. On Tuesday, I lear
Read more…Through the assigned readings I learned a lot about the inner workings of the brain and how they control our speech. The left hemisphere is responsible for language. There are many different parts of the brain that relate to different speech function
Read more…This week I had an introductory meeting with my language partner Atul. I have known Atul since last year and we have briefly spoken about my expectations for learning Hindi last semester, but during this session we focused in on what exactly I want t
Read more…Turkish wedding is really unique. Types of wedding are vary throughout its cities, provinces and villages. But it is similar in way that people are expected to get permission from their families first. The prospective groom must ask for the woman’s h
Read more…I did my presentation on Turkish Pop Music (Türkçe Pop Müzik). It was interesting to see the growth of Turkish music industry that stared from copying English songs. Now it is considered as oriental and unique sound. I will focus on Sezen Aksu in thi
Read more…I watched Turkish movie, My Father and My Son (2005). It was really touching and sad that everyone in my class cried. I saw how general relationship between a father and a son is like in Turkey. I can vary person to person, but my language partner sa
Read more…First Artifact: Greetings, farewell, and introductions.
안녕하세요. 권오환 이라고합니다. 저는 스물한살 이에요. 사학년 대학생입니다. 제 전공은 경제학 하고 국제연구 입니다.
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안녕! 다음에 보자.
Read more…Although most of these cultural aspects of Korea I already knew from being Korean and growing up in a traditional Korean household. However, there were some aspects of Korean culture that I was not too aware about. For example, regarding Korean attit
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