SDLC 110: Learning Journal 13

[Tenaya Bien]

This week in class we talked about family. This was kind of confusing for me because it just seems like there are so many different words that aren't very similar for all the different relations. For example, there are two words for grandmother but only one for grandfather. It doesn't make sense to me why there is a distinction between the mom of your mom and the mom of your dad, but not the dads of your parents. In Chinese, there is a distinction for both. It is interesting to me how even at the end of the semester as we lear new things, the cultural component of language learning keeps popping up. I would like to know why this is the case for these words and I think this is a big part of language learning that is sometimes forgotten about when you're just learning new vocabulary on your own.