105 Learning Journal #6

[Melody (Mengdong) Zhuang]

Understanding a language’s origin and transformation facilitates one to learn the language. I learned that seventy percent of Korean vocabulary comes from Chinese and transformed into Korean. This fact helps me to find similarities between Chinese and Korean in pronunciation of vocabularies. The similarities also allow me to memorize vocabularies faster. Knowing Korean’s writing system was invented in a well-structured way allow me to better grasp the Korean characters. Once one memorizes 24 Korean alphabets, one could be able to pronounce words and sentences. Overall, knowing a language’s history can not only help one learn that language but also other similar languages.