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May 17, 2025
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May 13, 2025
Annie Hankin replied to Gareth Woo's discussion Learning Journal - Gareth (relearns) Malay
"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…"
May 13, 2025
Annie Hankin replied to Gareth Woo's discussion Learning Journal - Gareth (relearns) Malay
"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…"
May 13, 2025
Annie Hankin replied to Gareth Woo's discussion Learning Journal - Gareth (relearns) Malay
"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…"
May 13, 2025
Annie Hankin replied to Gareth Woo's discussion Learning Journal - Gareth (relearns) Malay
"I also was surprised at first by the self directed course as well when if first started. I also applied similar learning techniques like learnign through youtube, TV, and other media. I find it interesting that you decided to pursue malay despite…"
May 13, 2025
Annie Hankin replied to Gareth Woo's discussion Cultural Post #2 - Kepentingan masak dengan kawan dan maksud hidangan tradisional Cina, Yee Sang/Yusheng
"that's really great you seem to have found a community of people to celebrate Yee Sang/Yusheng with. How did you go about finding that communiyt of people to share this celebration? how did you start the conversation of shared cultures in your…"
May 13, 2025
Annie Hankin replied to Gareth Woo's discussion Cultural Post #1 - Food (Makanan): Rojak dan Roti Canai
"Those look and sound delicious. I've always admired fusion cuisine as it celebrates them both while highlighting the beauty that can come from mixing cultures. In a way, it's pro-integration itself and highlights the innovation that comes from…"
May 13, 2025
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May 12, 2025
Gareth Woo replied to Annie Hankin's discussion Annie Learning Journal 1: Yiddish
"That's fascinating! It's inspiring to see someone reconnecting with their heritage through Yiddish. It must be challenging learning a dying language, yet I admire your perseverance to continue exploring resources! I do believe that language plays a…"
May 2, 2025
Leo Barnes replied to Annie Hankin's discussion Annie Learning Journal 1: Yiddish
"I understand the difficulty of not feeling sure exactly whether you're learning your language or not. Something to consider if you haven't checked it yet is Duolingo. I saw an article that said that they've offered a Yiddish course since 2021 that…"
Feb 11, 2025
Annie Hankin posted a discussion
Right now I’m working on founding current online resources to start my learning journey since Yiddish is a dying language. I have found a tutor on italki and I found a zoom online that does daily yiddish lessons that focuses on learning through…
Feb 9, 2025

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Discussion Post #6

Mandarin belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, which includes Cantonese, Burmese, and Tibetan. The primary regions are East Asia and southeast Asia. So it shares its ancestry with China, Myanmar and Tibet. I would have thought it shared its lineage with Korea or Japan as I often group those together culturally. What’s interesting is how Mandarin also shows contact with other cultures over time. The PDF talks about areal influence, and Mandarin definitely reflects that. I looked up some examples: words like (fó) (Buddah) come from Sanskrit through the spread of Buddhism and (kāfēi) (Coffee) comes from English. Also, a lot of modern political or technical terms entered the language through contact with Japan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Structurally, Mandarin is typologically analytic, meaning it has simple word forms and grammar is expressed through word order. Since grammar isn’t carrying tons of information through endings, meaning depends more on context, tone,…

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The history behind the Korean language is very interesting. The document from class classifies Korean as an Asian language, part of the Altaic language family. This connects Korean with Turkish, Mongolian, and Japanese. The Korean language also has a deep connection to the Chinese language and characters.75 million people speak Korean, with 72 million of them coming from North and South Korea. It has always been the main language spoken in those areas, but in the past, the Hangul alphabet was not yet created. What historians refer to as Old Korean was written with Chinese characters. Sometimes the characters would be used to represent a word or simply used to represent a sound in Korean. Because writers had to be educated in both Korean and Chinese, most people could not read or write. Once King Sejong came to power, he helped to create Hangul in 1443. Once the alphabet was created it made it much easier to read, write, and pronounce sounds in Korean.The Chinese language has a huge…

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Spanish belongs to the Indo-European language family, which is based on the genealogical classification method (also known as the historical/genetic classification method) which classifies languages based on shared ancestry and helps trace language evolution. One of the periods that contributed words to Spanish through contact with other cultures was in 476 when the Visigoths, a Germanic group, made their way into what is now France and the Iberian Peninsula. They spoke Latin, but they also spoke an East Germanic language, which ended up contributing words to modern Spanish, such as guerra ("war") from "werra" and ganso ("goose") from "gans." In 711, a Muslim army made its way from northern Africa into the southern Iberian Peninsula by crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. One of the most notable characteristics of this influence seen in the Spanish of today are the words beginning with "a-" or "-al," which is the equivalent of “the” in Arabic. In some cases, these words merged with the…

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Spanish belongs to the Indo-European language family, which is based on the genealogical classification method (also known as the historical/genetic classification method) which classifies languages based on shared ancestry and helps trace language evolution. One of the periods that contributed words to Spanish through contact with other cultures was in 476 when the Visigoths, a Germanic group, made their way into what is now France and the Iberian Peninsula. They spoke Latin, but they also spoke an East Germanic language, which ended up contributing words to modern Spanish, such as guerra ("war") from "werra" and ganso ("goose") from "gans." In 711, a Muslim army made its way from northern Africa into the southern Iberian Peninsula by crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. One of the most notable characteristics of this influence seen in the Spanish of today are the words beginning with "a-" or "-al," which is the equivalent of “the” in Arabic. In some cases, these words merged with the…

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