1.)

a.)

b.) This photograph was taken at 1930 Franklin Blvd right outside the Cafe Seoul Korean Restaurant.

c.) This is an interesting sign because it’s an example of Hangul’s western influence. The Hangul means (and reads)  “Restaurant” and is borrowed from the English language. We learned about loanwords in class and how it comprises of 3% of the Korean language and has been adopted into Hangul since 1945.

2.) 

a.) One thing that has stood out to me so far is the fact that Hangul is an SOV language whereas English is an SVO language. Being surrounded by Hangul growing up (and not being a native speaker), I had not noticed this to be the case, but it makes so much sense.

I think the biggest challenge for me so far has been understanding grammatical jargon and associating them with different East Asian languages like “agglutinative” or “inflectional” language.

I feel like I learn the most when I run through the slides on my own time so I can go at my own pace and digest the material.