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| Yukamina Senior Member Canada Joined 6264 days ago 281 posts - 332 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean, French | Message 25 of 29 29 June 2009 at 8:36pm | IP Logged | ||
I find words hard to remember and spell. It really slows down my learning speed. Listening and pronunciation are really difficult too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6436 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 26 of 29 29 June 2009 at 8:59pm | IP Logged | ||
Even as a native Korean speaker, I find Korean a rather convoluted and complicated language. Firstly, there's the pronunciation which would hinder most of foreign leaners Secondly, it's extrememly hard to be 100% correct with spelling and "spacing" (yes there is such a thing in Korean writing). This is true even for native speakers. Thirdly, mastering Korean verbs, adjectives and sentence formation is extremely difficult. Unlike in English where you can say the same sentence with different tones to show different nuances, in Korean you have to change the way you conjugate to reflect your relationship to the listener, attitude towards the subject, etc. This also means that whatever you say could imply a meaning that you may not have intended. There IS a generic sentence formation that supposedly does not reflect any relationship/attitude, but this form is so text-book-like that if you SPEAK it you'll sound very foreigner-ish. Fourthly, if you want to learn literary Korean, you'll need a fair amount of Hanja knowledge (either the characters or just knowing the meaning and readings). Edited by Jiwon on 29 June 2009 at 9:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pmiller Account terminated Groupie Canada Joined 5674 days ago 99 posts - 104 votes Speaks: English* | Message 27 of 29 29 June 2009 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | ||
Is there a way I can take the Defense Language Aptitude Battery to more objectively gauge my language learning ability? Also, is it possible to learn a language at DLI as a civilian? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 29 of 29 30 June 2009 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the explanations about why Korean is difficult. It sounds like it's not necessarily more difficult than Japanese but that it is more different from Japanese than I thought (for some reason I had the notion they were similar). It's not on my list of languages that I want to study right now, but it might make it on there in the future.
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