ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5664 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes 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 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States luelinks.netRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6299 days ago 179 posts - 186 votes Speaks: French*, English*, SpanishB2 Studies: Korean
| 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 Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6196 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map
| 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 Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5664 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu
| 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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