Korean
I had learned to speak Korean since I was born because it was my parents 1st language. I remember my parents training/teaching me official Korean through a workbook when I was very young. I can't quit remember whether I spoke 'mom' and 'dad' in Korean or English first. I had lived in Korea for a few months to a year when I was very young, but I am now filled with regret that I did not take that opportunity to properly learn Korean in my home country. The thing about the modern Korean language, and Korea in general, is that they have westernized so much that you can get by in Korea without speaking Korean very well. The language itself, as I have recently learned in school, has man 'loan' words borrowed from English. I had learned in LIGN 8 last year that Americans spend a ton in learning their home language in America. UCSD's requires to pass a certain level of a second language. With that in mind I had begun preparing specifically to pass the college r...
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