CULTURAL LANGUAGE KOREAN
By: Melissa Loera
멜리사
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
BACKGROUND
The Korean language was established from ProtoKorean, 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 (Koryosonar) 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
_Korea
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/KoreanCulture.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/LearnKorea
n/
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