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| Polyglot2005 Senior Member United States Joined 7187 days ago 184 posts - 185 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 21 30 March 2008 at 3:19pm | IP Logged |
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I was just wondering if any of the native Korean speakers on these forums could give me a quick evaluation of this guys korean. The real "interview" starts at about 2.5 minutes into the video.
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 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6435 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 21 31 March 2008 at 12:59pm | IP Logged |
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His Korean is at near-native level. He's got an almost Seoul accent, although I can point out a number of occassions when he speaks in a stilted manner found in the audio tapes. He mixes up tenses sometimes, but that's a mistake that even Koreans make. Very impressive overall.
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| Polyglot2005 Senior Member United States Joined 7187 days ago 184 posts - 185 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 21 31 March 2008 at 1:38pm | IP Logged |
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Jiwon, thank you for the response. I think John Frankl (the guy in the video) is/was a graduate student in the United States focusing on Korean studies, which, to some degree, explains why he has such high-level Korean.
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| vhdhkfh Diglot Newbie Korea, South Joined 6208 days ago 22 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Korean*, English Studies: French | Message 4 of 21 31 March 2008 at 1:39pm | IP Logged |
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That's my alma mater~ =)
I would also say that he's near native. Like 95%. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Makrasiroutioun Quadrilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Canada infowars.com Joined 6105 days ago 210 posts - 236 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Armenian*, Romanian*, Latin, German, Italian Studies: Dutch, Swedish, Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 5 of 21 01 April 2008 at 1:29am | IP Logged |
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Impressive, to say the least.
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| paparaciii Diglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6335 days ago 204 posts - 223 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian Studies: English | Message 6 of 21 01 April 2008 at 4:11am | IP Logged |
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Wow! This vid is really inspiring!
The first that comes into my mind is - if white American can pick up Korean at almost native level, then anyone can acquire whatever language he/she wants. Really impressive! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| trauma2020 Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6573 days ago 58 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English*, Korean | Message 7 of 21 01 April 2008 at 11:18am | IP Logged |
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He has been learning for ~20 years.. I would hope he would be at that level haha.
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| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7076 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 8 of 21 01 April 2008 at 8:00pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah, that's my dream as well... It's seeing people like this that do inspire me when I feel like Korean is an endless road.
I enjoy watching '미녀들의 수다' for the same reasons. [typo] Edited by andee on 02 April 2008 at 12:37am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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