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I wasn't able to upload a video of my slides being presented to PanOpto, so I figured I would upload the slides onto here.
We only met once for these two weeks and we discussed the potential topics for my cultural presentation. In the end, I decided to talk about Turkish drinks in my presentation but I found Turkish breakfast and tourist spots are also very interesting topics that I want to share in my last journal.
Turks very value their breakfast and usually need to spend some time preparing breakfast. A typical Turkish breakfast consists of cheese (Beyaz peynir, kaşar, etc.), butter, olives, eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, jam, honey, kaymak sucuk (Turkish sausages, can be eaten with eggs), pastırma, börek, simit, poğaça, and soup. So it is always very nutritious.
Turkish breakfast has a special dish called menemen, which is made of tomatoes, green peppers, onions, olive oil, and eggs. Turkish tea is always served with breakfast. Turkish breakfast can be translated to “kahvaltı”, means “before coffee” ("Kahve"="coffee"; "altı"="before").
Turkey's daily staple food is rice, vegetables, bread, and barbecue.
In western Turkey, olive oil is very productive. In Turkey, olive oil is used for cooking. The Turkish food, mantı, is very similar to Mantou or steamed bun in China or mandu in Korea.
Tourist spots:
The first one is the blue mosque.
Located in Istanbul, it is an important landmark of Istanbul. The walls of the blue mosque are carved with beautiful patterns on a white substrate. It makes the whole mosque blue. This building is very beautiful and historical.
The second one is the Bosporus Strait.
Bosporus strait is a territory near the Black Sea, the only way out of the open sea. It is because of this strait that Turkey is divided into two parts: Asia and Europe. If you sail through the Strait by boat, you can see the very beautiful scenery.
The third one is Pamukkale.
Pamukkale is totally made by nature, though it looks very artificial. The scenery is very beautiful. It seems to give people a sense of relaxation. This place is famous for hot spring. There are not only thousands of years of natural hot springs in Pamukkale but also all kinds of strange hills like marshmallows.
The fourth one is Goreme National Park.
The Goreme National Park is an important symbol of Turkey. This place is famous for its magnificent volcanic rocks and very ancient cave churches with beautiful hot air balloons. After years of wind and sun, it will lead to extremely uneven road conditions. So people usually take hot air balloons to visit.
The fifth one is the Troy ruins.
Troy ruins is a very famous site in Turkey. There is a huge Trojan at the entrance. The Trojan is very big. This has become one of the most important cultural landscapes in Turkey.
- Improve the understanding of the native language.
Only when we start to learn a new language, we can realize the importance of origin and foundation of our own language. Because we all grew up speaking our own native language and never thought about the structure of sentences or how each syllable is pronounced. After taking this class and studying different languages, I have a broader understanding of linguistic and began to be interested in how Chinese developed. I would like to further research the history of the development of Chinese and to know the correlation between the language, the society, and the culture.
I believe learning new languages will significantly improve your native languages and other languages’ grammar, reading, vocabulary, and oral skills. Also, I found I could pick up a new language faster and faster by studying more and more languages. It’s like after playing basketball for a lifetime, you can learn to play volleyball, and then you can use volleyball skills to improve the basketball level.
- Improve the ability to focus
In a study published in the online journal, researchers asked people who can speak multiple languages to do text comprehension tasks and use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for observation. The results show that people who can speak multiple languages are better at filtering out contradictory words than people who can only speak one language. This ability not to focus on contradictory words is useful in preventing distraction and focusing on the task at hand. I think after learning several languages, my capability of dealing with multi-tasks increased a lot. And I can translate languages faster.
- Faster learning
I believe language learning can be applied directly to anything we want to learn. When you learn a new language, your memory will also improve. Absorbing and retaining more information can significantly shorten your learning curve because you spend more time mastering new information rather than relearning what you have learned.
- Learning a new culture and having more in-depth thinking
Language learning is not only to communicate in a foreign language but also to experience a new culture. Communication with more people from different countries and cultures is the core of language learning. In order to practice and improve your new language, you need to study with a native language teacher, such as my language partner or watching the movie. In this way, you can improve your ability to learn this language. It's like riding a bike. You have to go cycling yourself, not just watch the video of cycling tutorial, but watch it as part of the whole process. Also, when studying a new language, I talked much more than when I did not because I need to communicate and learn. I also need to communicate my feelings and experiences with classmates, which made me have lots of deep thinking. When we exchanged our ideas, we all improved and broadened our ways of thinking
I recorded my podcast with Maggie and Kate with Jenna as our instructor.
I did podcast with Brenda, Yuting and Hanchen(Olivia).
For the last weeks of school, we reviewed what we learned in this semester.
So far, I can do greetings and basic expressions. For example,
hello(안녕하세요) My name is...(내 이름은)
It is nice to meet you(만나서 반가워) Goodbye(안녕)
Thank you (고맙습니다) Sorry(죄송합니다) excuse me(실례합니다)
I also learned about Transportation. There are two kinds of taxis in Korea: a standard taxi and a deluxe taxi. A deluxe taxi is slightly more expensive than a standard taxi. Taxi fares are usually paid in cash, but many taxis now accept payment by credit card or public transit card. Tipping is not necessary. Taxi drivers might ask where would you like to go (어디로 가고 싶습니까). You can answer, "please take me to hyeongbokgung(경복궁으로 데려가주세요)". In chapter 4, I also learned about famous shopping center in Korea. For instance, Dongdaemun(동대문) and Myeong-dong(명동).
Hat 모자 watch 시계 accessories:부속품
Electronic goods: 전기 제품 Food: 식품
Shape: 모양 Design:디자인
Pattern: 무늬 pay:지불 exchange: 교환
refund: 환불금
And then, in chapter 5, we talked about tourism in Korea. There are several famous places that I really want to visit. One of them is N Seoul Tower.
Art Museum 예술 박물관 zoo 동물원
bathroom 화장실 map 지도
ticket 티켓 admission fee 입장료
free 비어 있는
In addition, there are also some useful examples of conversations.
where is the museum? 박물관이 어디 있어요?
can I get there on foot? 걸어서 갈 수 있을까요
Can I take pictures here? 여기서 사진을 찍어도 될까요?
In the last chapter, we learned the most important thing. We learned how to order food in the restaurant and what is included in Korean meal.
Is there a good Korean restaurant nearby? 근처에 좋은 한국 식당이 있습니까?
May I please have a menu? 메뉴 좀 주세요?
What is the most popular dish here? 여기서 가장 인기있는 요리는 무엇입니까?
I would like to order. 주문 할게요
We will have one Samgyetang and one Bibimbap please. 삼게탕하고 비빔밤 주세요
Please leave out the Gochujang. 고추장 뻬주세요.
Side dish: 반찬 Salt: 소금
Pork: 돼지고기 Chopsticks:젓가락
Check:게산서 Delicious: 맛있는
It is spicy:매운 맛입니다. Water: 물
Peper:후추 Fork:포크
Spoon:숟가락 Pay:계산
And I actually tried to order food in Korean restaurant speaking Korean. I did pretty good job on it.
I learned a lot in this semester. And I hope to learn more in the future.
In case the link doesn't work, I also uploaded the video on the blackboard under "Panopto Videos", and the name of the file is Yahui Wu.
Recently, I have been reading a famous Turkish book called Madonna in Fur coat written by Sabahattin Ali. The plot revolves around a shy young man from rural Turkey who moves to Berlin in the 1920s, where he meets a woman who will haunt him for the rest of his life.
When it was first published in Istanbul in 1943, it made no impression whatsoever. Decades later, when Madonna in a Fur Coat became the sort of book that passed from friend to friend, the literary establishment continued to ignore it. Even those who greatly admired the other works of Sabahattin Ali viewed this one as a puzzling aberration. It was just a love story, they said – the sort that schoolgirls fawned over. And yet, for the past three years, it has topped the bestseller lists in Turkey, outselling Orhan Pamuk. It is read, loved and wept over by men and women of all ages, but most of all by young adults. And no one seems able to explain quite why.
The story begins in 1930s Ankara, the Turkish Republic’s newly appointed capital. The narrator has fallen on hard times, and it is only with the help of a crass and belittling former classmate that he is able to find work as a clerk at firm trading in lumber. Here he meets the sickly, affectless Raif Bey, who is, we’re told, “the sort of man who causes us to ask ourselves: “What do they live for? What do they find in life? What logic compels them to keep breathing?” When at last they make friends, it becomes clear that Raif’s reason for living cannot be his family. The relatives assembled under his roof treat him with the utmost contempt. And yet he welcomes their derision. Even on his deathbed, he seems to accept it as his due. But there is also a notebook, hidden in his desk drawer at work, which he asks his friend to destroy.
When his friend reads it instead, he meets a younger Raif, sent to Berlin by his father to study the manufacture of soap. Only a few years have passed since Turkey and Germany fought together on the losing side in the first world war, so he is warmly received by the pension’s other residents. But he is not much interested in the glad-eyed widows and the ruined colonialists, or for that matter, in soap. He devotes his days to reading and his evenings to strolling the streets. One evening, he wanders into an exhibition of contemporary art to be mesmerized by a portrait of a Madonna in a fur coat. He goes back the next evening, and the next, until finally the artist introduces herself. For the work that Raif has been admiring is a self-portrait. And though Maria Puder is the sort of free-thinking new woman he could never have imagined possible, the two form an intensely platonic friendship, in which Maria becomes more male than female, and Raif more female than male. It suits them both, but the world, as it closes in on them, has other plans.
The writer actually projected his own life experience in this novel. During his lifetime, and even after his death, Ali was publicly taunted for failing to act like a “real man”. There was endless innuendo about his time in Berlin. He never responded to it. Instead, he wrote Madonna in a Fur Coat, conjuring up a time and a place in which it was possible to be true to one’s nature, with air to breathe, and to live and love without pretense, if only for a brief period. It is not hard to see how a novel carrying those dreams but set far away, in a long lost Berlin, might promise a refuge, and some hope, to young readers in Turkey. They are only too aware that the space for free expression and even free thought is diminishing every day. But with this book in their hands, they can see that a story that is true to itself, and honest about love, can travel through walls. It has taken more than 70 years, says Genç, but at last Ali is having his revenge – not just in Turkish, but in English, too. May his fine book travel far.
