Jocelyne Rodriguez
Journal Entry 5
Do some preliminary research on what most interests you about the target culture, and describe how this topic relates to language. Do you need any special vocabulary or linguistic knowledge to engage this topic? If so, have you included objectives in your learning plan to engage this topic?
A cultural topic that has interested me throughout my study of Portuguese is the development of the language from Latin, its separation from other Romance languages, and the current language differences in the different countries in which the language is spoken. Throughout my study I have been relying on similarities between Portuguese and other Romance languages to understand new concepts that differ from English but are found in other Romance languages. Furthermore, I have made an effort to keep track of words that are used differently in different Portuguese-speaking countries. I would like to lean more about how these differences came to be and how Portuguese has evolved differently in different countries as well as the cultural factors that have led to these differences. Something my language partner often mentions is the Portuguese agreement from the 1990s in which all Portuguese-speaking countries agreed on language reforms to unify the different forms of Portuguese spoken in different countries. This is another aspect of my target language that I would like to investigate for my cultural presentation.
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