Reflect on how knowing a language's history can help you learn the language.
Knowing the target language's history can help me a little bit on learning it. As I have learned a little background of Korean language, I could tell that Korean has been affected a lot by Chinese language and cultures. Since the begging of Korean language, it is said that Korean people could only communicate by speaking at first. Later, some scholars learned Chinese characters from China and spread it to the high social status people, and it was until then could the Korean people communicate by writing as well. Although, the Chinese characters were replaced by the Korean characters we see nowadays later, we could still see a lot of words that have similarities with Chinese vocabularies. By knowing this, sometimes it would be much easier for me to memorize some vocabularies than other students because I can speak mandarin as well. Thus, knowing the history of the language is very interesting and sometimes can help the learners know how to use or memorize some words much easier as well.
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