Josh Pantaloni

"I really like your approach! Bringing in both linguistic structure and social context makes a lot of sense, especially for a language like Korean. Mixing things like syntax study with real-world conversations sounds like a great way to build both…"

"This is really interesting! I had no idea Hebrew had so many sounds that don’t exist in English. The examples you gave helped me understand how tricky it can be to match spelling with pronunciation. I’ve never studied Hebrew, but now I get why…"

"If I received a research grant to study the Korean language, I would focus on how traditional cooking vocabulary is used and preserved in modern media like cooking shows, YouTube videos, and food blogs. I would start by collecting materials from…"

While studying the Korean constants, I noticed that it has a constant phonology because the “j” and the “ch” sound similar. As well as the vowels “yeo” and “eo” sound the same. Different disciplines can be useful to see a holistic understanding because they can interconnect with different perspectives to learn a language with all available perspectives. In Korean, in psychology, they perceived the Subject, then the Object, and lastly the Verb. For computational Phonology the sounds that Koreans hear know what each mean while for me, I still have trouble differentiating the sounds. I prefer the disciplinary approach of stylistics literature for korean because it is easy for me to read the words out loud while practicing the pronunciation, and when I practice a simple sentences I have an image of the words written. If I were able to read fluently, it would be great to view the perspective of authors because they can influence the population, so understanding the source may have a better…

Chinese primarily follows the same subject-verb-object structure as English, but I am still learning the different ways in which words can be arranged. For example, in some cases, I can signify having completed an action by adding the word “le” after the verb (and sometimes the rest of the sentence), but I don’t know if this applies to all cases of the past tense. One of the other concepts I am coming to understand is the way characters are combined to create new words with complex senses. The words for “stairs” come from the characters for “building” and “ladder”, and a part of the character for ladder means “wood”, as it was used in early building structures. Tracking ideas like this might relate broadly to the “language”, “anthropology”, and “sociology” areas of Aitchison’s linguistics. As a beginner, I will probably focus mostly on applied linguistics, but I am also interested in literature, philosophy, and psychology, so I hope to consider and learn more about how Mandarin has…

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