This picture is a Asian market that can be found on 503 E 11th Ave in Eugene Oregon and is the first one I’ve found after coming to Oregon. The Chinese characters found to the side of the building read blank. Just looking at the characters, I can see the phonetic element and also the radical element found in Chinese writing. The phonetic gives a clue about its intended pronunciation and the radical gives us a clue to its meaning. It is written in Traditional Chinese writing and in pinyin it says Ya Zhou Long. In Mandarin, the word Ya Zhou combined together mean Asian country and the last word is Long which just means dragon. I also notice from this example that the Chinese writing system is indeed a logo-graphic writing system meaning that each symbol stands for a meaningful unit and that combining some sometimes gives a different meaning. Since it is in traditional Chinese, I think it could be opened by people not from mainland China and is thus advertised to people mainly from places like Tai Wan or any place that still uses traditional Chinese. Since it is also in English, it also attracts people not from the Chinese culture to try out different Asian foods and snacks. The end goal of the business to include both English and Traditional Chinese is to broaden their market of people to make more money. 

Some questions i had when taking this class is that I don’t quite have a concrete definition of what is a logo-gram and phono-gram that makes sense to me. I’ve found ways to solve this problem by reviewing notes and paying more attention during the power-points in class. In the class, I learn the most during the power points because it simplifies or rather extracts the most important information from the text in the reading. I feel most engaged in the class when I am talking with classmates in the discussion about the topic and then the teacher explains the topic more thoroughly after we engaged in conversation with each other about the topic.