Cultural language- Korean By: Melissa Loera 멜리사 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

The 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 BACKGROUND

The language has evolved: 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

The language has evolved : 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/Korean-Culture.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/LearnKorean/

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