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Korea (South)1897 Posts
If you can get the accent right, you too can be speaking like a Korean who doesn't know English, but uses English in their every day vocabulary. I was inspired to write this post by the Pro Tip: English, which I am unable to contribute to because, um, I'm dumb. ^^
Please contribute TLers and show off what you learned in Korea.
Korean Starcraft:
Hell you guys know this!
Manner, GG, no manner blah!
a. 18 - Ship PPal- looks like 18, but sounds a lot like FUCK in Korean.
b. OBER (over): usage: when some 'over' exagerates a statement or is 'over' reacting to something. Usually used as in ' don't over' or OBER HAJI MA
(remember in Korean English all Vs are Bs and all Bs are Bs ^^)
c. Pighting (Fighting): usage when you are cheering someone on, come on, you guys know this stuff, YimYoHwan Pighting! or I would say Giyom Pighting.
(remember in Korean English all Fs are Ps and all Ps are Ps except when they confused with Bs or Vs, which the latter are both interchangable but the Bs are most commonly used)
d. Night (Booking Club-explained below): a type of club which has a relatively small dance floor and lots of seating where waiters drag seemingly unwilling girls to sit beside you and drink your expensive whiskey while you pay out of your ass to enjoy yourself.
e. Booking (happens at a Night-explained above): the act of a 'waiter' who is actual a modern day speed match maker who drags women to have a 'booking' with you (short encouter where you repeat the same thing to 20 women a night).
f. Room Salon (upper class drinking place) about 1k USD per person segemented into jum Oh (.5) or ten puro (10 %) where they just pour you drinks and act as charming companions for the night, think geishas but modernized for Korea. I beleive the .5 represnts the top 50% of beautiful women, while 'ten puro' (10%) represents the top 10% of beautiful women.
Culture note: an aside:
Remember while most Korean women have some form of plastic surgery or another, they were pretty hot to begin with and who can argue with them if they want to be more hotter. Please leave the country if you are looking for personality only! Korea is not for the foolish or unworthy! Remember that you you will have some hesitation at first, but will get use to it and love them. Warning: if you are going to marry a very hot Korean girl and you suspect she is a bit too artificial and you don't wanna have ugly babies, then ask to see a family picture and pay very close attention to the nose of the parents including the height of the bridge(pro tip!) you'll thank me afterwards!
g. Sexy Bar/Bikini Bar (drink bar while girls who pour your drink and make conversation with you in a bar setting), which is relatively quite inexpensive, in a sexy bar they wear sexy clothes and in a bikini bar or biniki university bar (whoot!) they just serve you in their bikinis, but alas there was a crack down about 3-4 years ago, so no more bikini bars, just sexy bars (remember to say sexeeeee bar)
*Key learning Point: if you speak the English word with the proper English accent, no one in Korea will understanding you. I promise you that!
Remember that 100% all Rs are Ls and never ever will you encounter an R in Korea speech as it is nearly physcially impossible for Koreans to make that sound.
Example: renaissance hotel is pronounced 'lenasansu hotel' if you add in a hint of an R you are F U C K E D or as we write in Korea 18ed, you will never get to your hotel!
h. Zank you (Thank you): this is actually quite funny in that Koreans recognize that they cannot make the 'TH' sound consistantly and it is one of the key things that define the Korean English accent, so when they want exagerate saying Thank you in an amusing situation they say 'Zank you' which sounds better than Dank You, but its a kind of poke at the fact that everyone knows we can't say 'thank you'.
*remember, if you can teach a Korean how to say 'Thank you' properly without an accent, they will think you are great scholar from the heavens!
i. some non English words: Hof (where to drink beer and eat sausages)-German, A-ra-bite (part time worker)-German: the first modern South Korean overseas workers where actually in the 1950-60s to Gemany as miners and nurses and this is what they brought back from Germany as well as that 3 & 4 ball billiards! Wow, bet you smart asses didn't know that eh? keke. Word like King, Queen, princess are the same in Mandarin Chinese (as our litterature and language was highly influnced by Chinese culture) and otherwords like 'newspaper' are the same as Japanese when they brought new modern items within them during the occupation of Korea from 1910-1945 (yes we didn't have batteries and neckties either but the Japanese got that from the Americans) gogo USA keke.
ah! its too early or late at night and my brain is freezing, help me out people!
oh one last thing: Koreans when we speak English do not use the I word frequently, rather we use the 'we' word, for instance, we would say, 'our country' not my country or our girlfriend, not my girlfriend ^^ hahaha just kidding about the last one! kaka, it would suck if you did that to your gf in Korea!
peace out!
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Our girlfriend likes this thread
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Zurich15365 Posts
I think I am about to cry.
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
On February 10 2010 04:39 lokiM wrote:
AMAJJING
lol lol lol
remember that Z isn't z when its pronounced in a word or used as subsitute for th, it a J.
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Calgary25996 Posts
On February 10 2010 04:29 zatic wrote:
I think I am about to cry.
you mean you zink.
Edit: I was surprised about "one shot" and they were equally surprised when I told them that's not an English expression.
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On February 10 2010 04:29 xMiragex wrote:
Our girlfriend likes this thread
lol
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Haha, this is great 
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awesome zread!
just recently had a beginner course in korean and therefore i really liked all that stuff!
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
On February 10 2010 04:45 pioneer8 wrote:lol
lol x2
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mightyatom!!! omg so much awesome in one thread
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
On February 10 2010 04:51 mOnion wrote:
mightyatom!!! omg so much awesome in one thread
ober ha ji ma! *^^ kaka
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They also compliment people by comparing people's state of mind to that of children.
A female Korean friend who fancies me would oftenly say that I'm "pure as child" or "cute as child". I didn't appreciate it.
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
On February 10 2010 05:00 Gigaudas wrote:
They also compliment people by comparing people's state of mind to that of children.
A female Korean friend who fancies me would oftenly say that I'm "pure as child" or "cute as child". I didn't appreciate it.
Koreans also have no problem about pointing out if you're fat or have a skin problem or vice versa if you're looking thinner or your skin looks nice!
Next time she says that, you should ask her if she wants to eighteen with you. She'll understand and she won't consider you that child-like any more. kaka
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Don't forget sentence inflections.
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u forgot saying "reg" when its lagging
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Awesome post, but how could you forget the infamous "yesu!"?? That one always makes me laught and cry at the same time
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
Moang Key (Monkey) Often times this is what a Korean girl will call a guy with a lot of facial and/or chest hair. Or note MC Mong - He really does look like a monkey.
Bah nah nah - Banana - If you say banana in an american accent they won't know what the hell you're talking about.
Example:
Girl: "Waaaa tool jinjja manna! (Wow u really have a lot of hair!) Moang Key kat ae! (Just like a monkey!)
You: *innocent perverted look* "Bah nah nah jjom joa he?" (Do you like bananas?)
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
On February 10 2010 05:39 Rekrul wrote:
Moang Key (Monkey) Often times this is what a Korean girl will call a guy with a lot of facial and/or chest hair. Or note MC Mong - He really does look like a monkey.
Bah nah nah - Banana - If you say banana in an american accent they won't know what the hell you're talking about.
Example:
Girl: "Waaaa tool jinjja manna! (Wow u really have a lot of hair!) Moang Key kat ae! (Just like a monkey!)
You: *innocent perverted look* "Bah nah nah jjom joa he?" (Do you like bananas?)
f u c k i n g hilarious, I was wondering where it was going with the banana bit. Some real life application by Rekrul. lol you seki!
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Korea (South)2971 Posts
On February 10 2010 05:39 Rekrul wrote:
Bah nah nah - Banana - If you say banana in an american accent they won't know what the hell you're talking about.
I actually had problems with that when I came to America only knowing the Korean pronunciation -__-
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Most of these are applicable to Asian languages in general...
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
Another good ones is "sense"
They pronounce it "sensuh." It can often be interchanged with the korean word nunchi but is slightly different. Nunchi is more like your ability to read into whats really going on or how someone feels, sense is more like your ability to react/adapt quickly to a situation or conversation.
I'm riding economy class with two korean girls sitting behind me on a flight from Seoul to Macau and I'm obviously too tall to fit that comfortably so before takeoff so as we are preparing for takeoff I already have my seat back in recline mode.
Flight attendant comes up to me "Sir please put your seat back up we are preparing for takeoff."
"Wae? Jinjja bulpyun heyo!" (Why? It's so uncomfortable!)
*2 second lag processing white man speaking korean* "I understand sir but please, you must put your seat upright for takeoff."
"Al gess sim ni da" (Okay in the honorific respectful tone) *puts seat back fully upright*
*flight attendant walks away*
*instantly reclines seat back again all the way*
girls behind: "hahaha sense jjom it nae" (lol hes got sense)
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isn't over more like "oh bah"?
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
On February 10 2010 06:20 danmooj1 wrote:
isn't over more like "oh bah"?
yes
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
Koreans also use "hunting" as going out trying to pick up girls lol.
"o nil wae night wasso?" (why did you come to the night club tonight?)
"jjom bae go pa. hunting ha la go wasso" (I'm a little hungry. I came here to hunt.)
*girl instantly gets up and leaves*
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I feel like I'm learning so much reading from Rekrul's posts but then reality gets me. Always hilarious nonetheless.
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Ask a Korean to pronounce "February".
Just.... what.
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Calgary25996 Posts
On February 10 2010 06:41 Sapraedon wrote:
Ask a Korean to pronounce "February".
Just.... what.
also quail
lyrics
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blake hahah
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On February 10 2010 06:42 Chill wrote:Show nested quote +On February 10 2010 06:41 Sapraedon wrote:
Ask a Korean to pronounce "February".
Just.... what. also quail lyrics ... blake hahah
I've had iterations of:
"Feb-yuu-waa-wee?"
"Feb-yula-ree?"
"Ffffff-eb-yoo-wo-woi?"
I can only imagine what "lyrics" sounds like.
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
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ree ric ss (sseu)
koo weh eel
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Calgary25996 Posts
On February 10 2010 06:45 Sapraedon wrote:Show nested quote +On February 10 2010 06:42 Chill wrote:On February 10 2010 06:41 Sapraedon wrote:
Ask a Korean to pronounce "February".
Just.... what. also quail lyrics ... blake hahah I've had iterations of: "Feb-yuu-waa-wee?" "Feb-yula-ree?" "Ffffff-eb-yoo-wo-woi?" I can only imagine what "lyrics" sounds like.
god i cant even type it. its can be one of the following:
rear rik seu
wee lik seu
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