105 learning journal #6

[Dong wook Lee]

Learning language alone is quite boring. History could help them learning and memorizing the language well. Actually language just changes by time. Therefore by knowing about the history, we also could get some knowledge that history influence some language facts. For example if we learn about Korea history, we could easily know that Korean is influenced by Chinese, Korean use some words which is made up by Chinese Character. About Turkish, their character changed a lot. By learning Turkish, I learned there are lots of words influenced by Arabic. They do not use Arabic letter now, but some words sounds like Arab language. In Turkish history, in ottoman empire, they conquer really wide area including Persia, some Arab country. At that time they just used Turkish letter which is quite similar with Arabic character. Now they just using Latin alphabet, but some parts Arabic still exists in their language. Like this if some language learner also get some history about the country, they could understand more about the language.