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| Deecab Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5963 days ago 106 posts - 108 votes  Speaks: English, Korean* Studies: Mandarin | Message 49 of 115 03 September 2008 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
I think the people who truly deserve to be proud are those who took the effort to learn languages, not snobby people who think their language is the most difficult. Those people usually haven't even done serious linguistic analysis. Language is just language. Knowing a difficult one doesn't make the person smarter let alone superior. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| LuckyNomad Groupie Korea, South Joined 6349 days ago 79 posts - 89 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 50 of 115 04 September 2008 at 12:03am | IP Logged | |||||
What I mean is, ㄱ ㅋ ㄲ all sound similar to English speakers. Also, ㅈ ㅉ, ㅃ ㅂ, ㄷ ㄸ, ㅅ ㅆ, all sound similar. It's the same way for Koreans who cannot distinguish Z and J, R and L, F and P, or B and V. Also, due to the fact that Koreans rarely ever encounter a foreigner who speaks Korean, if your pronunciation is slightly off, they won't understand you. If a non native English speaker speaks jumbled, poorly pronounced English, they can usually be understood because we are used to hearing poorly spoken English with different accents and prounciation. This is not true with Korean. Sometimes Koreans simply cannot grasp the fact that you are speaking their language to them and will not understand you, even though the korean standing next to them can. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6374 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 51 of 115 04 September 2008 at 12:07am | IP Logged | |||||
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Like I always say. With time all languages are easy.
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| TKK Groupie ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5950 days ago 55 posts - 58 votes | Message 52 of 115 04 September 2008 at 12:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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Korean 받침 is somewhat like Chinese 入聲 , please go to this website, as below, English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entering_tone Simplified Chinese: http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E5%85%A5%E8%81%B2 &variant=zh-hans Traditional Chinese: http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E5%85%A5%E8%81%B2 &variant=zh-hant Edited by TKK on 04 September 2008 at 12:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Deecab Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5963 days ago 106 posts - 108 votes Speaks: English, Korean* Studies: Mandarin | Message 53 of 115 04 September 2008 at 12:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have heard about the aspirated and non-aspirated sounds trouble. Can you give an example?
For instance even if you hear the ㄱ as ㄲ or vice versa, are you able to tell from the context what the speaker meant? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| TKK Groupie ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5950 days ago 55 posts - 58 votes | Message 54 of 115 04 September 2008 at 12:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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1, 받침 ㄱ·ㄴ·ㄹ·ㅁ·ㅂ·ㅇ·ㅋ·ㅍ·ㅎ (VERY EASY) 2, 받침 ㄳ·ㄵ·ㄶ·ㄺ·ㄻ·ㄼ·ㄽ· ·ㄿ·ㅀ·ㅁㄱ·.. .... (one ending with consonant and the other beginning with a vowel)? 3, 받침 (ㅈ ,ㄷ ,ㅅ ,ㅌ , ㅊ) I can't distinguish clearly between these pronunciation when they become bottom bat chim, maybe they sound much too similarly? Edited by TKK on 04 September 2008 at 1:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Deecab Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5963 days ago 106 posts - 108 votes Speaks: English, Korean* Studies: Mandarin | Message 55 of 115 04 September 2008 at 1:24am | IP Logged | |||||
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2) It may not be easy.
3) Actually they are pronounced approximately/exactly the same, contrary to the myth. You can't recognize the pronunciation difference until there is an assimilation with the ㅇ next character. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| TKK Groupie ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5950 days ago 55 posts - 58 votes | Message 56 of 115 04 September 2008 at 1:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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Actually, when it comes to the topic of Japanese writing system, Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, each of them has a respective function. 1, KANJIs are used for loan words from ancient China. 2, KATAKANAs are used for load words from modern Occidents, such as USA, UK, Germany, France, & etc. 3, HIRAGANAs are used for Japanese inherent words. By contraries, when you read a Korean article, you cannot understand immediately where any vocabulary originated from? From Korean itself, or from China, or from Western countries? It's not very easy to judge. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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