Attitudes about family in the target culture
Family is an integral part of Indian culture. From an early age, one is taught the importance of respecting one's family and that one should prioritize family before all else.
Indian parents can tend to be
Read more…Attached is a link of the Korean Ted Talk I watched on the topic of happiness.
It is delivered in English with Korean subtitles.
http://www.ondemandkorea.com/no-way-im-an-adult-e3.html
Read more…Attached is a recording of myself introducing my family.
Read more…For this week, Atul and I focused on conversational Hindi and on increasing my vocabulary. We talked about the past week's happenings and also about our plans for the break. We recorded a five minute clip of the conversation for my fourth learning ar
Read more…For this week, I worked on practicing writing.
I wrote about the University of Richmond and why I decided to come here. I found that I was making a lot of spelling mistakes, but the exercise helped me to think about sentence structure (with spoken Hi
Read more…From the cultural projects presented in class, I realized that events and concepts in a society have trickle-down effects. For example, Tayaba presented regarding immigration and emigration of the Korean society. She presented that due to the low bir
Read more…This semester, I was able to read Korean articles (about 2 or 3 each week, two in Korean and one in English). I was able to search up new vocabulary and analyze and apply the content from the readings. I additionally gained lots of insight and knowle
Read more…When I saw the topic of "identity", I thought of how many people experience identity crises.
I personally felt an identity crisis because I was a Korean-American. My external image did not categorize me with Americans, but Koreans didn't identify me
This virtual link had various greetings and farewells in Korean. It had a wide variety, which reminded me of how many different ways you can greet someone. It also had the narrations of each greeting. I found this link extremely helpful.
Read more…Reflect upon what you have learned about the culture(s) you have been studying.
My main goal for my cultural posts were to learn about the culture of South Korea to better prepare myself for my study abroad experience at Yonsei University next semes
Read more…Attitudes about Time in the Target Culture
In India, time is given a very different importance than it is in the US. The urgency to be punctual is not as great as it is here, and being late is so commonplace in non-professional settings that it isn't
Read more…This week, I focused on learning idioms in Hindi. Atul and I worked through a worksheet of idioms that was kindly provided by his mother. We went through 10-15 commonly used idioms in the language, wrote down translations for them and practiced them
Read more…Reflect on your progress up to date, consider the effectiveness of your learning plan and activities and discuss what changes if any you will make to finish the semester.
I think that I've made a good amount of progress on the goals that I set out fo
Read more…Attached is my file for the final presentation, presented on 11/27/2017.
Read more…Reflect on your experiences of (trying to) read and write in your target language.
When I first started my classes with Atul, it had been close to 3 and a half years since I had read or written Hindi. It was hard during the initial weeks of re-fami
Read more…I found the articles on the co-relation between being bilingual and being smarter to be very interesting. The NYT article seemed to hint that being bilingual increases one's executive function, which trains the mind to have higher cognitive function
Read more…In the past couple of weeks, I feel like my vocabulary in Hindi has increased a lot. During eac
Read more…During one of my sessions with my learning partner, we worked on my listening and comprehending skills by watching a Korean show that talked about the happiness level of students in different countries. This topic was really interesting to me, so I
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