Annie Hankin

"I like how you really honed in on your goal of improving casualness and locality in your Malay abilities. I admire how you also incorprated your new skills into various settings other than the cooking situations. It shows that you are really…"

"It's good to see that you have maintained your study strategies and applied them to improve your casual Malay. I too have stuck with my strategies while revising my goals. Like working in my language book, attending the online lessons, and utilizing…"

"It sounds like you had a lot of goal revisions with acquiring a more casual level of Malay in February. I like that you challenged yourself while still being able to have fun and experience the culture in the most accessible way depsite being on the…"

Not all bilingual speakers are the same. Firstly, according to Barto-Sisamout and Nicol, “because language is intimately tied to culture and one’s sense of group, bilingual people may have a more complex and multifaceted sense of self and group than monolinguals.” The cultures, as well as language structures (for example, grammar, word order, and parts of speech), related to different languages are all unique, with their own similarities and differences; bilingual speakers will engage with and relate very different concepts in their understanding of two languages. Though these definitions are flexible, and their names tend to vary among researchers, linguists may classify bilingual speakers as coordinate, compound, or subordinate. Coordinate bilingualism usually occurs when speakers grew up learning two languages, and they interact with each one as its own concept. Compound bilingual speakers generally relate their languages in such a way that they understand the ideas communicated…

If I got a research grant for a linguistic study of Hebrew, I would want to explore the “new” words in Modern Hebrew, the ones that didn’t exist in Biblical Hebrew and had to be created. Words like “car” or “newspaper” didn't exist thousands of years ago, so they had to be made up. From the research I’ve done so far, much of this work goes back to Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, known as the father of Modern Hebrew. He seems to have come up with many of these new words before the work was eventually based on by a group of linguistic scholars. A lot of the vocabulary still used today can be traced back to him. To create these words, he took from other Semitic languages, like Arabic and Aramaic, and combined their influences with Hebrew roots. What I’m really curious about is how many of his original words are still used today. How much of his vocabulary stuck, and how much was changed or replaced later by scholars or everyday speakers? He did publish dictionaries, which give us a record of his…

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