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| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5415 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 33 of 39 22 September 2011 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
*facepalm so hard my forehead hurts* You realize there's more to Japanese cinema than anime, right? Besides, most Korean films are generic films about romance—don't we have enough of that in American movies? Edited by nway on 22 September 2011 at 5:09pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| DNB Bilingual Triglot Groupie Finland Joined 4886 days ago 47 posts - 80 votes Speaks: Finnish*, Estonian*, English | Message 34 of 39 23 September 2011 at 12:47pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Actually, a decent amount of the Korean movies are reasonably well done thrillers/action movies. The drama scene, however, is infested with these cheesy romancefests that I have lost my complete hope of ever finding a decent non-romantic drama. Edited by DNB on 23 September 2011 at 12:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| starrye Senior Member United States Joined 5094 days ago 172 posts - 280 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 35 of 39 23 September 2011 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hmm, don't confuse what is popular online with certain fan groups, with everything that is actually made and available in Japan. There's more to Japanese entertainment than anime, robots, and monster movies. For that matter, there's more to anime and manga too, and other genres of Japanese music besides pop or visual-kei, etc...but it doesn't necessarily get translated or dubbed into English.
Hollywood is probably the most repetitive thing out there right now, in my opinion. But you can still find good movies if you look for them. Edited by starrye on 23 September 2011 at 8:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| vientito Senior Member Canada Joined 6338 days ago 212 posts - 281 votes | Message 36 of 39 24 September 2011 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I like Korean movies and all the drama scenes. One thing that really stands out is the industry's daring attitude towards using new actors and actresses. They are not afraid to try new people. In fact, Korean people are filled with imagination and new ideas. There have been flops but these guys are never shy about experimenting different techniques.
There are no accidents in that. Drama is a central theme in Korean culture. Even Kim Jong il loves a few dramas. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5696 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 37 of 39 25 September 2011 at 12:12am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I think nway is being facetious here. He's illustrating that caracao's complaint about Japanese cinema could be recast into one about Korean cinema that's just as valid—which is to say not really. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Americano Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6846 days ago 101 posts - 120 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean | Message 38 of 39 16 October 2011 at 3:46am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I must disagree with your assessment. I currently live in Korea, and I previously lived in Taipei, and I must say that there is a striking difference in modernity. Not only between the cities of Seoul and Taipei, of which Seoul is vastly more advanced, but also of the countries as a whole. I have also visited Japan extensively, and I would say that Japan and Korea are quite similar in terms of development. Overall, Japan as a country is slightly more advanced, but not that much. Seoul is nearly as advanced as Tokyo, and Seoul's public transit is superior in quality to Tokyo's in my experience. Recently Seoul was ranked as the world's 10th most powerful city, with Tokyo I believe coming in around 3rd or 4th. The only other Asian city to make it in the top 10 was Hong Kong. Korea is modernizing at a break neck pace these days. Edited by Americano on 16 October 2011 at 3:52am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5178 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 39 of 39 19 October 2011 at 12:27pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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How to tell apart Mandarin from Cantonese?
There is a simple way to it: if syllables end with -m, -p, -k it is Cantonese (or maybe some other non-mandarin dialect). but I think learning Mandarin anyway is better. Cantonese is a spoken language mostly, even in Hong Kong people write in Mandarin. Writen Cantonese is sometimes used there, but it's not generally accepted. it's a separate language, but most people simply treat it is as a dialect. So lack of Literature. Though maybe changing Mandarin to Cantonese in writen form is not so hard. You have to remember few rules. the most common words (be, not, etc) have different characters from Mandarin, but the vocabulary is mostly the same) Cantonese is harder to learn, the tones, :S I have tried to laern this language, but I cannot get the tones! there are 6 or even 9 of them! Telling apart falling from rising in Mandarin is much easier than , mid tone, high tone, low tone, two rising ones etc in Cantonese. So I think Mandarin is the best choice. A lot of people say that Japanese is hard due to the different readings, but I have never much problem with it, except for the names. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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