Post Learning Journal #4

[Mary Chang]

Last class, Chris gave a presentation on the water of Iran and Rachel gave a presentation on the history of Korea during Korean War. It was interesting to learn about how Farsi-speaking population has used science from early days to get water from nature. Rachel's presentation on the history of Korea was particularly interesting to me because I'm learning Korean as well and the history of this country is just something that I'm very unfamiliar with and didn't have much chance to learn about. So to hear about an overview of how the war broke out and how it was fought was very interesting. One of my learning goals for next semester is to learn more about the history of this nation to better understand its foundations and culture. It is important to not only learn about the culture of your own target language but also other languages as well to have a holistic view of the world.