CULTURAL LANGUAGE- KOREAN

By: Melissa Loera

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mellisa

INTRODUCTION & PERSONAL

CONNECTION I am looking forward to studying Korean

because my baby nephew is Korean from his moms side

and he is barely 2 ½ years old and has not started

talking I think he's just confused because my family

talks to him in Spanish and English then his mom’s side

of the family talk to him in Korean so he doesn’t know

what's what. I know soon he will start kindergarten and

he will learn Spanish and English but I want him to

learn Korean as well at least something just so that he

can communicate with his mom’s family. It is also part of

his culture and if he doesn’t understand the language he

will never learn half of his culture and where he comes

from and I want to be able to help him this is why I'm

choosing this language. I plan to study this language by

teaching my nephew a few words and conversating with

him maybe even explaining/ speaking it to my parents

and rest of the family so we can all learn together.

http://www.everyculture.com/Ja-Ma/North-Korea.html

BACKGROUNDThe Korean language was established

from Proto-Korean, Old Korean, Middle Korean and

Modern Korean. Since the Korean War, North Korea

and South Korea differences have developed in

standard Korean, including variance in

pronunciation, verb inflection, and vocabulary.

Korean is one of the world's oldest languages, and its

origins are is as obscure as the origin of the Korean

people. Korean is most likely a distant relative of the

Ural-Altaic family of languages which includes such

diverse languages as Mongolian, Finnish, and

Hungarian. Its weird how Korean is unrelated to

Chinese and is similar to, but distinct from Japanese.

Korean is one of the world's oldest living languages,

and its origins are different like the origin of the

Korean people. This language establishment is based

on the dialect of the area around Seoul, though the

northern standard has been influenced by the dialect

of Pyongyang. All types of Korean are similar to each

other and at least partially mutually, intelligible,

except of Jehu Island is way different enough to be

sometimes known as a separate language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language

EVOLUTION (EXAMPLE 1)

The language has evolved:

How? It was evolved right after the World War II.

Since the Korean War, the North and South have

developed differences in standard Korean,

including pronunciation, verbs and vocabulary.

Why? It has evolved tremendously because this

Korean language had become native to the south

Korea, North Korea, China ( Koreans in China ),

U.S ( Korean American ), Japan ( Koreans in

Japan ), and (Koryo- sonar) so Koreans are living

everywhere in the world and this language keeps

spreading.

For whom? The language has evolved for Koreans

and probably everybody because the more

Koreans migrate, the language will migrate as well

to all those places.

http://countrystudies.us/south-korea/8.htm

EXAMPLE 2

The language has evolved :

How.? During the 15th century a dramatic

move occurred when a dedicated group of

scholars from the Korean Language Research

Society began working on the Korean language

they wanted it to work so qickly develop this

language so they started writing newpapers,

magazines, bibles, and menus.

Why.? They were all really eager for the

Korean Writing to work so they created all of

these written papers.

For whom.? They did this for the Korean

community they wanted to get everyone to

know this language so they started teaching in

school how to write, pronounce and read the

alphabet.

http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_North_Kore

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CULTURAL RELATIVITY

The specific cultures/countries that use

this language would be the People's

Republic of China, the United States,

Japan, Russia and of course South and

North Korea. The different

cultures/countries who use it are

connected in some way because they can

all speak the language and understand one

another with out any difficulty. The benefits

or setbacks associated with this language

would be that Korean speaking minorities

exist in these states and because of this not

all ethnic Koreans may speak it with native

fluency the reason being that North Korea

and South Korea both have different

governments which neglect the Korean

language in two different ways.

www.learnkoreanlanguage.com/Korean-Cul

ture.html

GLOBAL IMPACT

The role of the Korean language across the

world today would be that it’s known but it is

very rare if someone can actually speak the

language. The Korean language is somewhat

important because it’s estimated that there is

about seventy five million people in North and

South Korea and it keeps growing. Also

business wise there is a lot of Korean

businesses around Asia because of Koreas

increasing trade and foreign investors. To

actually know the importance of the Korean

language you must need to learn the language

among yourself so you can experience how

beautiful this language actually is.

http://www.importanceoflanguages.com/Learn

Korean

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PERSONAL REFLECTION

I want to learn more about the

background and who actually invented this

language. I want to learn how people came

up with the design of the letters for the

Korean words/ alphabet. I want to use this

language development to impact others in

a positive way by maybe talking with

others in Korean like my job with

customers or at home with my family or

even at school with teachers so we can all

learn something from one another. I will

try my hardest to develop the accent I

know it possibly impossible, but it doesn’t

hurt to try.

APA CITATION PAGE

- Importance of Korean Language (Importance of Korean)

http://www.importanceoflanguages.com/LearnKorean/

- Korean Culture (Learn Korean)

http://www.learnkoreanlanguage.com/Korean-Culture.html

- Countries and Their Cultures (Culture of North Korea)

http://www.everyculture.com/Ja-Ma/North-Korea.html

- Education in North Korea (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_North_Korea