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| lica1106 Diglot Newbie Korea, South Joined 7214 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Korean*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 1 of 6 02 March 2005 at 5:46am | IP Logged |
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As a native Korean speaker, I've thought Korean language has lots of pronunciation and is easy to distinguish one from another. but I found it on Language Profiles.
"Japanese is relatively easy to pronounce correctly, whereas Korean makes distinctions between regular, stressed, and aspirated consonants which non-native speakers have a very hard time to distinguish." Is there any one else to explain that for me? 
Edited by lica1106 on 02 March 2005 at 5:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ProfArguelles Moderator United States foreignlanguageexper Joined 7257 days ago 609 posts - 2102 votes  | Message 2 of 6 04 March 2005 at 8:10pm | IP Logged |
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To Koreans,
ㄱ ㄲ ㅋ (k kk kh or g gg gh) ㄷ ㄸ ㅌ (t tt th or d dd dh) ㅂ ㅃ ㅍ (p pp ph or b bb bh) ㅈ ㅉ ㅊ (c cc ch or j jj jh) ㅅ ㅆ (s ss) are all clear and distinctly different sounds. However, to Western ears, they are all extremely similar. I had trouble with them from the very beginning, and even though I am now basically "fluent" in the language, they still give me trouble 10 years later. Almost all my spelling errors revolve around these, these are the only aspects of my pronunciation that sometimes cause people to misunderstand me and ask me to repeat what I said. I'll say a word with a ㄱ or a ㄷ or a ㅂ or a ㅈ or a ㅅ and they'll say "what?" I'll repeat it, and they will pause and then say, "oh you mean..." and say it with a ㄲ or a ㄸ or a ㅃ or a ㅉ or a ㅆ. Edited by Ardaschir on 04 March 2005 at 8:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| lica1106 Diglot Newbie Korea, South Joined 7214 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Korean*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 6 05 March 2005 at 3:14am | IP Logged |
Thanks for your reply! 
I once taught my Viet Nam friend to how to sing a song. well, at that time, I realized something. I wrote the lyrics and pronuciation in English(It was very hard job). And then I read it, She said the way I read too strong. For instance, we write ºÎ»ê as Pusan, I didn't understand why we write P not B. Koreans usually don't realize that, but it can be possible to be confused to foreigners' ear(especially Westen people). Edited by lica1106 on 05 March 2005 at 3:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Deecab Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5962 days ago 106 posts - 108 votes Speaks: English, Korean* Studies: Mandarin | Message 5 of 6 02 October 2008 at 2:33am | IP Logged |
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I'm pretty sure foreigners can distinguish them too, just not to the extent of native Koreans, unless they get used to it. If you see the older ladies speaking in dialectal accent, you'll observe that they sometimes mix it up, just to sound funnier or more boisterous.
Even to my native ear, ê°€ and ì¹´ can sound sometimes extremely similar. My friend will say "ê°€!!" almost sounding like ì¹´. And it will be JUST good enough for me to realize he said ê°€ instead. I wouldn't encourage learners to worry too much about it unless their listening skill is horrible. Usually context will clarify it enough. If anyone can second this or disagree, please share. =X 1 person has voted this message useful |
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