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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5539 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 9 of 26 22 November 2009 at 8:47pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
It's amazing how common 바보 is in Korean pop, isn't it? Not as frequent as, say, 사랑해, but still more frequent than I expected.
Changing from ~ㅏ다 to ~ㅐ for the "low speech level" form seems to be fairly common in Korean (like the word 사랑해 I noted above which is a conjugated version of 사랑하다). BTW, I assume you are referring to the FT Island song by that name? If so, that's a good song. :)
Where did you get these? That sounds like something I'd be very interested in downloading. :) On that note, if you haven't already, check out this page: http://blog.naver.com/ke2565 Look for the MP3 links where the filenames start with podics~ as those are her Korean podcast files (you can ignore the ones with JP or JPN in the filename as they are for teaching Korean speakers Japanese, so they aren't all in Korean). The reason I like her podcasts is because she speaks very clearly and I find I understand a greater proportion of her podcasts than others I've found (though I'm not sure whether that is due to talking more clearly or using simpler speech, since she is a teacher, if I recall correctly). Good luck with your studies. :) Edited by Warp3 on 22 November 2009 at 8:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| onesteptwostep Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5777 days ago 49 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Japanese, Korean | Message 10 of 26 22 November 2009 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
I scrapped them when I found out they were so inaccurate, so they're not in my possession anymore. But if I find them, I'll post the dodgy sentences.
Possibly. Koreans talk so fast, though. Recently I've found myself sitting in boring lessons at school, turning to the person next to me and saying '난 집에 가고 싶어요' out of the blue. I try to think in Korean as much as my vocabulary will allow, so sometimes I spout off some pretty random sentences. :P But it is helping my confidence, even if the sentences are quite primitive.
Thank you. :D That might be so, but English and Maths are my weakest subjects. I'm dyslexic, which makes English more difficult than it should be, and as for Maths - well, I'm just plain rubbish at it. But we shall see how things go. I can still get into college if I have Cs in them, I just won't be able to take as many AS levels as I'd like to (probably a good thing in the long run, I've heard the amount of work is horrible).
I know! XD I think 사랑해 is probably the most common word. I've heard 거짓말 and 이별[해] a lot as well. I listen to mostly rock ballads, so a lot of the whole breakup/angst thing comes through.
I'm absolutely addicted to it. And the boys, too. Can't forget them! :D
They're available here. Some are for teaching Japanese to Koreans, some are for teaching English, and some are just topical podcasts. You can download them or stream them. I hope you find them useful! And thank you very much for the link you gave me, I'll be sure to make the most of it. :) Edited by onesteptwostep on 22 November 2009 at 9:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5539 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 11 of 26 22 November 2009 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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Hmmm...she uses podics and the Korean+Japanese podcasts I referred to above all reference "Language Cast" (just like the link you listed), so many of the Korean+Japanese links on those two pages may actually be the same content.
That said, though, the podcasts I was recommending on her site were the Korean-only ones, instead (not actual language-learning podcasts). I'll definitely check out the Korean+English ones, though. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| onesteptwostep Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5777 days ago 49 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Japanese, Korean | Message 12 of 26 27 November 2009 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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These past few days, I've been very lazy - but for good reason!
Now that my mocks are pretty much over, including the horrible French oral I was dreading (speaking petrifies me - not a good quality in a language learner, I know), I have more time to spend on Korean. I've done no 'proper' studying since my last post, but I've been listening to more Korean music than usual in an attempt to make up my lack of book work, and have downloaded lots more podcasts to make use of. Had an interesting encounter with the 부산 dialect in a podcast yesterday - I could have sworn I was listening to Japanese, not Korean! Needless to say I won't be trying to understand that dialect any time soon. I was fascinated, albeit a little baffled, at the difference in pronunciation of such words as 왜 and 먹(어요). Apparently Koreans from 서울 struggle to understand those from 부산 - is this true? Also, I was watching a video of one of my favourite bands; one member said something that sounded a bit like '으러서' and translated into 'oh my gosh'. I'm probably way off with the Korean but does anybody know what that word/phrase might be? 감사합니다! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6440 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 26 28 November 2009 at 1:07am | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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I hope you've aced your mocks. ;)
부산 dialect sure is different from the standard 서울 dialect. But it's not as unintelligible to us as you might think. Granted, they use different vocabulary, and that causes some misunderstandings, but we can usually get the general gist. And a link to that video might be helpful. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| onesteptwostep Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5777 days ago 49 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Japanese, Korean | Message 14 of 26 28 November 2009 at 12:31pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
Thank you. :D Would the difference be comparable to British English and Singapore English? If I listen hard enough I can understand bits here and there. The video is here - I was on about the part at about 6:54. I might have thought the 'oh my gosh' was another word, though, so I've not got a clue. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6440 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 15 of 26 29 November 2009 at 8:31am | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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Bad translation. The word is 그랬어, which doesn't even translate anything close to oh my gosh.
But I guess in the context, it conveys the nuance, but not the actual meaning. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| onesteptwostep Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5777 days ago 49 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Japanese, Korean | Message 16 of 26 29 November 2009 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
Two things here: 1. My listening skills are POOR. Worse than I thought. Note to self: work on that. 2. Note to self #2: don't rely on fan translations. D: ---- Yesterday I went into a charity shop and was fortunate enough to find some Korean kids' books on sale right at the back. They were selling very cheaply - for £1 each, in fact - so I leapt at the chance, even though my Korean is nowhere near good enough yet. As a result I now have two copies of 크레이지 레이싱 카트라이더 and two copies of 메이플스토리, all at about 200 pages each. I've had a flick through some of them and could read a minimal amount, but nothing substantial. Looking up every unknown word in a text doesn't work for me, so instead I am noting down and trying to learn the words that crop up often. I'm not sure of how to approach grammar. I have worked my way through Basic Korean: A Grammar And Workbook - I completed it in August - and am now on the Intermediate one. I'm trying to learn the rules but there's too many and they're refusing to stick, so I'm going to tackle one at a time - maybe one every three or four days - and see how it goes. It would mean slower progress, but I'll also have more time to spend on vocabulary, which is time I need. Will report back in a couple of days. :P 1 person has voted this message useful |
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