For this week, Atul and I once again focused on conversational Hindi. We spent a few hours talking about random topics, including events occurring at school, our upcoming plans for fall break and also talked about grad school/jobs. Since it is senior
Read more…For my cultural project, I've decided to talk about my hometown in India, Kolkata. Kolkata is as diverse as it is beautiful in its history and traditions and I look forward to giving a talk about its people, culture and food. I shall hopefully delive
Read more…Over the course of the past few weeks, I've been working with Atul to brush up on my written Hindi. The grammatical and semantic rules of Hindi differ significantly from English.
Hindi is written using the Devnagri script, which employs around 50 cha
Read more…For this week, I met with my language partner to talk about our experiences in college. Our conversations ranged from classes that we had taken, our favorite experiences in college, our families, what the move to the US was like for the two of us and
Read more…When I was beginning to learn and read in Korean, I began by watching lots of Korean television. I picked up words I did not know and I learned how things were spelled.
I attended Korean school when I was in elementary school, so it served as a stea
Read more…Being bilingual has a profound effect on the brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shield against dementia. Being bilingual forces the brain to resolve internal conflict, which strengths the cognitive muscles of the brain
Read more…I have learned about 2 new words on average per lesson. I learned them by reading news articles.
Read more…When a language dies, the effect is more drastic than losing members who can conjugate the language's verbs.
When a language dies, it loses the history and culture of a population. There are definitely significant characteristics of a language. It d
Read more…I believe a language's history can help you learn the language and the culture.
In the Korean language, certain Chinese characters are incorporated in the words. Each of the Chinese characters have a certain meaning and give deeper meaning to the wor
I believe that watching the presentations of my peers was beneficial not only to my perspective and knowledge of Korean culture and language, but also those of other languages as well.
I was paired in a team of fellow Korean speakers. One aspect of
Read more…Cultural Topic: South Korea's Geography & Attractions (Focus-Seoul)
Korea is located in East Asia, with South Korea in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. It is mostly surrounded by water, with North Korea as the only country to be a land bo
Read more…I learned about geography of Turkey with maps of Turkey in the class. Turkey is surrounded on three sides by the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Aegean Sea. Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, but the capital is Ankara. Turkey has popul
Read more…One interesting aspect of Korean culture is the Korean Wave, called “Hallyu” in Korean. Hallyu refers to the dissemination of Korean culture throughout the world, evident in the popularity of Korean music and Korean dramas. It’s an interesting concep
Read more…For weeks 4 and 5, I decided to focus on my reading and writing skills at Hindi.
For week 4, I spent sometime reading through articles and discussing them with my language partner. I chose to read an online newspaper called the Dainik Bhaskbar, which
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For this week's learning journal, we're talking about linguistic aspects of Hindi.
Hindi from a linguistic standpoint redefines the word complex. I shall isolate a single aspect, gender structure to explain why. Gender structure varies based o
My goals for this week were focused on reading. I set myself the task of reading through a fairly complex article in Hindi (taken from the most prominent Hindi newspaper in India, Dainik Bhaskar). Given that the newspaper is targeted at audiences who
Read more…For this cultural post, I'd like to discuss the differences between Urdu and Hindi, both of which originate from the language Hindustani, which found its roots in Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit. Prior to the partition of India, this was the standard la
Read more…On a basic level, the Korean sentence structure is as follows: subject-object-verb or subject-adjective. On a basic level, the English sentence structure is subject-verb-object. The difference between these two languages is that the object and verb a
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