I am so happy that I chose to take this class. Eall 209 helps me to understand the culture difference in East Asia a lot. Especially the difference between Japan and Korea. The thing that makes me feel most interested in the basic sentence structure topic. Japan and Korea use SOV (Subject Object Verb). China and the United States use SVO (Subject Object Verb). The reason I am interested in this part because the Chinese could use a translation app such as google translate to translate English into Chinese. And the meaning of the content is mostly correct. However, My Japanese friend told me that if he wants to use the app to translate sentences to Japanese, it’s less correct than Chinese. This is because the basic sentence structure is different between Japan and the United States. I am so glad to hear many people’s opinions during in-class discussion. Sometimes when I confused about the topic. Classmates’ opinion is really helpful to me. I am so thankful that Kaori used many great examples in the PowerPoints and explanation of examples is easy to understand. The changing things to me are the quizzes and the research paper. There are many articles to read. And this is the first time I paper wrote except for the writing course. Eall 209 makes me want to explore more about East Asia language and culture. In the future, I will take a similar class again.