- Reflect on how knowing a language's history can help you learn the language.
Learning the language's history can be helpful in learning the language because of instead of memorizing you truly understand the language. For instance, for mandarin all the characters came from drawings and it can really help when trying to remember how to write it. In addition, in terms of Korean, many parts of the Korean words have similar parts and therefore knowing the history it can help in learning more words. Also, in many Asian languages there is a tendency to combine phrases or one word can be connected and mean something different. So, it is definitely helpful in knowing the history in learning the language.
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