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I agree with all you guys - I moved to the States when I was 3 too, and it was really the Korean dramas and 서태지 (ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ) who really helped me learn the language.
Clazzi, I'm like you 100%. my spoken Korean is deffffffffinitely better than my written. =/ Being here in Korea is really helping me a lot tho. Working for a Korean company + talking to Korean parents everyday is the best practice ever.
On December 09 2008 13:51 il0seonpurpose wrote: Susie, I love your konglish, seriously
나놀리지마! >.<
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ho ho I have more Korean experience than all of you, I have all of 4th year Korean ELEMENTARY SCHOOL under my belt kekeke
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Am i the only one but when i hear 사투리 from grandmas i have no idea what they're saying. They speak soooo fast 아따 is like the only thing I can catch
호호 i have korean 초등학교 3학년 중 2 and 중 3 under my belt
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On December 09 2008 14:51 Ilikestarcraft wrote: Am i the only one but when i hear 사투리 from grandmas i have no idea what they're saying. They speak soooo fast 아따 is like the only thing I can catch
I've been hearing a lot more 사투리 from my best friends lately... and yeah I'm like WTF when they do that too. In general out of like 5 total people I'm like the one that barely speaks a lick of Korean during our circle conversations (parents are different however) but when they talk I have no problem understanding, minus the 사투리 of course =P
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On December 09 2008 14:51 Ilikestarcraft wrote: Am i the only one but when i hear 사투리 from grandmas i have no idea what they're saying. They speak soooo fast 아따 is like the only thing I can catch
호호 i have korean 초등학교 3학년 중 2 and 중 3 under my belt
오~ 스넵!!
I love 사투리. I hope one day I can become that 아줌마 with the 사투리 who yells at "kids these days" on the bus and subway.
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On December 09 2008 14:59 lilsusie wrote:Show nested quote +On December 09 2008 14:51 Ilikestarcraft wrote: Am i the only one but when i hear 사투리 from grandmas i have no idea what they're saying. They speak soooo fast 아따 is like the only thing I can catch
호호 i have korean 초등학교 3학년 중 2 and 중 3 under my belt
오~ 스넵!! I love 사투리. I hope one day I can become that 아줌마 with the 사투리 who yells at "kids these days" on the bus and subway.
LOL Susie. And ilovestarcraft I assume you moved from Korea to USA(?) after 3rd grade? And came back for middle school?
Clazzi, I'm like you 100%. my spoken Korean is deffffffffinitely better than my written. =/ Being here in Korea is really helping me a lot tho. Working for a Korean company + talking to Korean parents everyday is the best practice ever.
Definitely, because you'll probably be speaking korean most of the time because obviously, you are in korea XD
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I went to America when i was two came back in 3rd grade to korea went back to us in 4th grade stayed till 7th grade went back and been in korea since.
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On December 09 2008 15:06 Ilikestarcraft wrote: I went to America when i was two came back in 3rd grade to korea went back to us in 4th grade stayed till 7th grade went back and been in korea since.
Do you go to a Korean school or an International school in Korea?
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I know these two guys at my church who speak 사투리, my god was I surprised when I heard them talking like that.
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korean school but didnt go to korean hs took ged complicated situation
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On December 09 2008 14:19 il0seonpurpose wrote:I should study more vocab, how did she learn? Reading the bible in korean? Haha that reminds me at church, when like the pastor says a verse, then the audience(?) says another. I'm so slow in reading and I don't know whats going on in the passage.
I guess it was motivation, idk...I really never had the urge to get better at Korean, but my sister I guess wanted to learn and more and the thing that helped her so much ever since she went to church (like 3rd grade) was read/write the bible because in Catholic churches we have things called altar who help out the priest in mass and like they always had this assignment which was to write like shitload of pages from the Bible (Korean though) and I guess as she wrote them, she learned new words, etc...
That's why every sermon that the priest says, my sister understands, while I, on the other hand, fall asleep because I don't know much
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I got pwned
I'd like to think both my Korean and English are quite fluent though. As far as anyone I've spoken to can tell, my English has no Korean accent and vice versa
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I sortof developed an accent when i speak english now from staying here so long
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On December 09 2008 15:16 Ilikestarcraft wrote: I sortof developed an accent when i speak english now from staying here so long
It's funny cause I say a english word in a korean accent if I'm speaking in Korean but I can't say a korean word in an english accent if I'm speaking in english. Confuses the hell out of Koreans when I talk to them for the first time cause I think I'd be noob at english lol
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On December 09 2008 14:49 infinity21 wrote: ho ho I have more Korean experience than all of you, I have all of 4th year Korean ELEMENTARY SCHOOL under my belt kekeke
8 Years of korean school in america. 1 year of exchange student program. Mom has been a korean school teacher as a side job all her life. gg my childhood.
사투리 is easy as hell to understand, just hard to emulate in speech.
Only thing I really regret is not learning to type in Korean. Harder vocab and stuff is easily attainable compared to that imo.
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the best way to learn to type korean is through the messenger. just get some really talkative korean fob friend and viola! your korean typage is gone off the chart. seriously though, your korean typing skill increases over time.
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You can type in Korean if you can write in it. Even my white friends could type basic korean words after seeing them (albeit it took them a long time).
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also i have quite collection of e-korean books ranging from harry potter to some japanese authors and etc. if someone is interested.
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On December 09 2008 12:49 food wrote:Show nested quote +On December 09 2008 11:55 lilsusie wrote: I meet people in Korea who talk to me in their terrible English, and then even fumble their Korean as if they have a hard time speaking Korean since they've been abroad for soooooooo long (what, a whole 2 fuckin' years?!?!).
The taxi driver thought that of me, I'm sure, because of exactly these types of people - the not so fluent English speakers who play it off like they are.
When I was in Spain, I was able to get by - order food, ask directions, grab a taxi, etc. But in no way shape of form would I say that I'm multi-lingual that I can speak Spanish too. I'm sure to any Spanish speaker here I'd be insulting them if I said that I was nearly as good as they were. And I would never play it off like I was.
Bleh. This is just a rant; I've been meeting too many 유학생s that try that shit on me.
"Oh you studied in America too?" "... yes" "How long where you there?" "..... 25 years"
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to be honest this isnt just with koreans this happens in almost every country out there. If its one of the "less cool" countries - they will speak broken english/french/german with their own people. That shit went down for ages, read "War and Peace" - they all speak french while in russia. Indicates a "higher society" or something. Actually its "cool" to have british accent these days in the US, go figure. I always laughed at "bilingual" people that were not proficient with it. My sis studied foreign language for 10 years hardcore and she kept saying "i suck at it" while publishing own works and starting to teach at Uni. ignorant people like you mentioned fucking irritate me the most, its embarrassing/degrading to be around them
Also didnt russian nobility use french pronounciation when speaking russian anyways for a long time? im not sure just double checking, Just remember reading about tolstoy's life and it describing him as treasuring his french pronounciation.
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