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I have posted my learning plan to the Ning.
In the coming weeks, I will try to solidify my ability to hold a basic dialogue. I don't find it too difficult to partake in basic conversation in Turkish. This includes:
- What is your name?
- My name is...
- How are you?
- I am good.
- Where are you from?
- I am from...
- Goodbye!
We also learned certain nationalities. We also began to learn how verbs are conjugated.
"I love you" - "seni seviyorum" (seni - you, sev - love, iyor - present tense, m - I)
Some activities that I will do include speaking to my Turkish friend twice a week in addition to class because he is eager to help me. I think that my learning plan was a bit ambitious, but I will try my best to stick to it. It's a little hard to take into consideration that it's an entire class of us that are trying to learn and not everyone learns at the same pace.
Learning Journal 2: In addition to discussing the resources, outline how you have begun to work on your first language tasks.
My target language is Korean, Thus, when I went to the global studies last week, I only found one related book and it was a Korean dictionary. So, I really want to suggest that the global studies can put more Korean books, such as Korean comic books or magazines will be great because there are more and more students want to learn Korean. Besides this, I found the language tools the professor provided on the calendar is very useful. Also, the most amazing part is that by using those tools I can also look what other people use when they learn a language, also can share my own experience as well, which I found very impressive.
My first language task is to know how to ask for directions like a restaurant or a bookstore I want to go in Korean. I have found a book which is written by the Korea University, and inside, there is one chapter talks about this. So, I learned several phrases from these, such as how to say " go straight and then turn right" or " it's in front of the bank", etc. To learn more about this, I also went to youtube to watch some films about this topic, and I found that super helpful.
I have learned Korean for around two years so far. However, speaking Korean is still a very difficult skill for me. Thus, I wish I can improve my speaking skill by talking with the teacher or with a language partner. On my learning plan, I have wrote several goals for this semester:
1. Ask for directions(place/road)
2.Understand weather reports
3.Introduce a place for traveling
4.Be able to buy cloth at a clothing store
5.Understand TV news
6.Understand the instruction on the airplane
7.Understand a poem
8.Write a short story
9.Know how to buy tickets
10.Order food
Basically, most of them are about daily lives because I think learning a language is about knowing how to communicate with other people in daily lives. Thus, I chose these 10 topics as my goal for this semester. And, most of them i will accomplish by watching the videos on the Youtube or by asking my Korean teacher or language partner.
In “How the Brain Handles Languages,” the author talked about learning a new language requires different brain areas because a single area of brain relates to a single behavioral ability, such as vision or speech, which is known as localization. Once we mastered one language, a snatch of dialogue takes place so quickly that we forgot how complicated the neurological planning and execution involved in the process. In speaking, it is the vocabulary which most people associate with the notion of sense.
However, one word often has different meaning in different occasions, even if different tonality can refer to different meaning. Also, some thinks that words are intrinsically connected with the meaning while other do no. I think it depends on the language. Some words such as describing the sound of animal does connect to the meaning.
For this week, my goal was to start my learning of Korean alphabets, or Hangul. Korean alphabets can help me in speaking Korean words and they are the foundation. Korean alphabets are separated into consonants and vowels. This week I want to focus on learning the consonants. They areㄱ= k,ㄴ= n,ㄷ= d,ㄹ=r/l,ㅁ= m,ㅂ= b,ㅅ= s,ㅈ= jㅎ= h. I foundㄹ to be really hard to pronounce. It is between the sound r and l. Korean words can be combined by Hanguls in four different ways and there are certain patterns and words are written into “blocks” that make up one syllable.
We've spent the week reviewing the past week's learning goals and going over the alphabet's sounds again. To practice this, I quizzed myself a little bit and kept up with the vocabulary practice that I've been doing via Mango and Duolingo. This will help me with my vocabulary in class and I will be able to bookmark interesting facts about Turkey in my browser using Diigo, so that I can look back when we have to do our presentations at the end of the semester.
This week was our first week of learning basic Turkish principles. Via a handout, we learned the alphabet. Turkish has used the Latin alphabet for almost 100 years now.
The Turkish alphabet differs from English because it uses umlauts, yumuşak g, and cedillas. These create sounds that are unique to Turkish.
Also went over greetings and salutations.
My goal for the end of next week is to memorize the sounds of the alphabet and greetings.
