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ennime
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South Africa
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Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans
Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu

 
 Message 1 of 4
28 September 2008 at 2:51am | IP Logged 
Hi!

I want to comment on the Korean language profile. It concerns Hanja. While not officially abolished as in North-Korea, currently in South-Korea knowing Hanja is not a necessity to read anything anymore. Maybe there will be at most 2-3 Hanja on a given page in an newspaper...

Also a comment on the prevalence of English here: English is not as widely spoken as it says on the profile. While those speaking good English will be eager to speak it with foreigners and there is a strong pressure to learn in English, people who don't speak it fluently tend to shy away from using it (and those are the large majority of Koreans). Also Koreans are very friendly and thankful if you try and learn to speak Korean here.
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Hollow
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 Message 2 of 4
28 September 2008 at 4:41am | IP Logged 
I quite agree.
But I advise you run before the wonderfully useless Korean and Hanja debate comes 'roud this way.
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Jiwon
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 Message 3 of 4
28 September 2008 at 11:39am | IP Logged 
Yeah it's completely useless, and I really don't understand how some non-natives can be more vocal than the native speakers on this forum. It's not your language, you can't impose on native speakers "Your language SHOULD and MUST be like this." It's for them to decide.

Having said that, there is a long thread somewhere in this sub-forum that I have started to make amendments to the Korean profile, but haven't really got to finishing it.. so if you want to change, you could post there.
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ennime
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 Message 4 of 4
29 September 2008 at 3:45am | IP Logged 
Ah I just saw the post you mentioned and will insert comments in there if any are left after scouting throught the thread.

And yeah the Hanja discussion... not getting involved in that.


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