Discussion Post#10

[Yunqi Shen]

     If I was granted a research funding to study Korean linguistics, I will begin with the korean history because I think the history of a country is in the best position to make influence on its language. For example, only when we started to know about Korean history, we knew that Korean was created based on a lot of language, including Chinese. Although Chinese and Korean are not in the same language family, this still can help people who know Chinese learn Korean efficiently. On the other hand, it makes the language learning more structured and organized. This will lead people to understand Korean better. At the same time, Korean also contains some Japanese words because of the history reasons.  I believe study korean history will help me know more about the language relationship between Korean-Chinese-Japanese.