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pStar
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
996 Posts
April 26 2012 19:50 GMT
#41
On April 26 2012 23:41 _MagnuM_ wrote:
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On April 26 2012 15:51 cmen15 wrote:
Very funny comic!!


Thanks for the credit guys!!

I'm really glad you like it... It took me around 22 years to find!


Maybe you should link to the original tumblr link in your poster and give the artist and author some credit? Instead of ripping from a terrible website such as 9gag where all of their stuff is stolen.

This annoys me as I think it is really wrong to not give the original author any credit. What was the point of him doing the thing at all if people were just going to steal any not give any credit?

please put link in your post, it was posted a few posts above.
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
April 26 2012 19:54 GMT
#42
Now I can do karoake w. kpop songs. WINNING!
liftlift > tsm
RogerX
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
New Zealand3180 Posts
April 26 2012 20:01 GMT
#43
Is there one for Japanese?
Stick it up. take it up. step aside and see the world
Ack1027
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States7873 Posts
April 26 2012 20:09 GMT
#44
Pretty decent graphic.
It just depends on someone's learning ability though. I've been able to teach people how to read, albeit slowly, in a few hours, and others took weeks.

One thing that really helps with pronunciation for native English speakers that isn't found in textbook explanations is to add the ' h ' sound to nearly every word in Korean. It helps people get closer to native-like pronunciation a lot quicker.

For example:
Harry potter is easier to describe as ' Hari Potuh '
Batman is easier to describe as ' Behteu Mehn '

Unless you're trying to explain it to someone who has knowledge of phonetics and phonology. Even then most can't pronounce it...I study linguistics and I've never met a student who can pronounce something based off the IPA.
NexUmbra
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Scotland3776 Posts
April 26 2012 20:14 GMT
#45
On April 26 2012 03:44 jinorazi wrote:
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On April 26 2012 00:00 Fighter wrote:
On April 25 2012 23:43 CaptainCrush wrote:
Am I seeing this right? Gollum would be pronounced "Gorrum"?

Hahaha, I love me some engrish. This is a great guide though, I would really love to be able to speak korean one day!


Korean uses ONE character for both the R and the L sound. The character itself actually makes NEITHER of those sounds because it's actually sort of somewhere in between. This is the reason that Koreans have a hard time pronouncing L words, but it also means that when you transliterate there's really no way to make a 1:1 correspondence between characters.

On April 25 2012 22:34 Superouman wrote:
Am i reading "Hari Potu" correctly? no R sound at the end?

I can't believe korean alphabet is so easy, it's awesome


And yes, a lot of times Koreans sort of drop certain sounds. Again, words don't always get translated 1:1 by their characters.

One thing that's REALLY important in Korean, is that letters get blocked into syllables, and if you look at the syllable construction you will notice they really NEVER end in consonants. Only vowels. But "Potter" ends in a consonant, which makes it super, SUPER hard for native Koreans to even SAY. It just goes against the grain so badly for them. That's why you get the stereotypically asian "uhh" at the end of words.

It's not David, it's Daviduh

It's not Potter, it's Pottuh


i never understood that, seems like a japanese way of doing it.
Potter can be 파털 and david can be 대이빗


When the rattlesnake is in the final position is makes a complete L sound.
Life has won two GSLs and a Blizzard Cup. NOT three GSLs.
DannyJ
Profile Joined March 2010
United States5110 Posts
April 26 2012 20:18 GMT
#46
Looks like we all found Waldo.

... and he's teaching us Korean.
dbddbddb
Profile Joined April 2010
Singapore969 Posts
April 26 2012 20:22 GMT
#47
The problem with this guide is that it just teaches you how to read the korean alphabets. Which is useless when trying to communicate. Like if you can read english, but you don't understand anything at all. It feels pointless. The best way is to teach common phrases and other beginner sentences etc
JitnikoVi
Profile Joined May 2010
Russian Federation396 Posts
April 26 2012 20:44 GMT
#48
i might put some time and actually attempt to learn this
In theory yes, but theoretically, no.
jinorazi
Profile Joined October 2004
Korea (South)4948 Posts
April 26 2012 22:03 GMT
#49
On April 27 2012 05:14 NexUmbra wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 26 2012 03:44 jinorazi wrote:
On April 26 2012 00:00 Fighter wrote:
On April 25 2012 23:43 CaptainCrush wrote:
Am I seeing this right? Gollum would be pronounced "Gorrum"?

Hahaha, I love me some engrish. This is a great guide though, I would really love to be able to speak korean one day!


Korean uses ONE character for both the R and the L sound. The character itself actually makes NEITHER of those sounds because it's actually sort of somewhere in between. This is the reason that Koreans have a hard time pronouncing L words, but it also means that when you transliterate there's really no way to make a 1:1 correspondence between characters.

On April 25 2012 22:34 Superouman wrote:
Am i reading "Hari Potu" correctly? no R sound at the end?

I can't believe korean alphabet is so easy, it's awesome


And yes, a lot of times Koreans sort of drop certain sounds. Again, words don't always get translated 1:1 by their characters.

One thing that's REALLY important in Korean, is that letters get blocked into syllables, and if you look at the syllable construction you will notice they really NEVER end in consonants. Only vowels. But "Potter" ends in a consonant, which makes it super, SUPER hard for native Koreans to even SAY. It just goes against the grain so badly for them. That's why you get the stereotypically asian "uhh" at the end of words.

It's not David, it's Daviduh

It's not Potter, it's Pottuh


i never understood that, seems like a japanese way of doing it.
Potter can be 파털 and david can be 대이빗


When the rattlesnake is in the final position is makes a complete L sound.


hmmm?
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FinestHour
Profile Joined August 2010
United States18466 Posts
April 26 2012 22:09 GMT
#50
Oh wow this was amazing! Thank you for the share
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SoraLimit
Profile Joined February 2011
Canada747 Posts
April 26 2012 22:35 GMT
#51
On April 27 2012 05:01 RogerX wrote:
Is there one for Japanese?

I don't think there would be, since there are way more "letters" in the Japanese language than Korean. Plus you would need to learn it's Katakana counterpart, as well as Kanji (the borrowed Chinese counterpart) in order to even read something in Japanese.
Flamingo777
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1190 Posts
April 26 2012 22:36 GMT
#52
On April 26 2012 00:00 Fighter wrote:


Show nested quote +
On April 25 2012 22:34 Superouman wrote:
Am i reading "Hari Potu" correctly? no R sound at the end?

I can't believe korean alphabet is so easy, it's awesome


And yes, a lot of times Koreans sort of drop certain sounds. Again, words don't always get translated 1:1 by their characters.

One thing that's REALLY important in Korean, is that letters get blocked into syllables, and if you look at the syllable construction you will notice they really NEVER end in consonants. Only vowels. But "Potter" ends in a consonant, which makes it super, SUPER hard for native Koreans to even SAY. It just goes against the grain so badly for them. That's why you get the stereotypically asian "uhh" at the end of words.

It's not David, it's Daviduh

It's not Potter, it's Pottuh

I think you're getting Korean confused with Japanese, Koreans don't really put an "u" sound at the end of things, it's more like an "auh", sounds more like an "o" ending than an "u".

Thanks for this thread OP! I've been wanting to learn to read and write Korean, and since I can kind of already speak it this really helps a beginner like me a lot!
Isken
Profile Joined November 2010
Korea (South)1131 Posts
April 26 2012 22:41 GMT
#53
after getting pumped with the reading you get into grammar
and dispair :p
_MagnuM_
Profile Joined July 2011
Denmark136 Posts
April 27 2012 10:34 GMT
#54
On April 27 2012 04:50 pStar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 26 2012 23:41 _MagnuM_ wrote:
On April 26 2012 15:51 cmen15 wrote:
Very funny comic!!


Thanks for the credit guys!!

I'm really glad you like it... It took me around 22 years to find!


Maybe you should link to the original tumblr link in your poster and give the artist and author some credit? Instead of ripping from a terrible website such as 9gag where all of their stuff is stolen.

This annoys me as I think it is really wrong to not give the original author any credit. What was the point of him doing the thing at all if people were just going to steal any not give any credit?

please put link in your post, it was posted a few posts above.


Look man, i gotta give credit where credit is due.... i was browsing through some 9gag stuff and this one came up and i thought people might like this here on TL so i just shared it... and people are glad i did.. I would most certainly be thankful as well... if you have beef with people stealing other people's shit... then go send an email to 9gag with your whining... stop ruining a perfectly good post!!

THANK YOU
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Strike_
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Netherlands704 Posts
April 27 2012 11:13 GMT
#55
thanks 9gag
Sephy90
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1785 Posts
April 27 2012 11:59 GMT
#56
On April 27 2012 07:36 Flamingo777 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 26 2012 00:00 Fighter wrote:


On April 25 2012 22:34 Superouman wrote:
Am i reading "Hari Potu" correctly? no R sound at the end?

I can't believe korean alphabet is so easy, it's awesome


And yes, a lot of times Koreans sort of drop certain sounds. Again, words don't always get translated 1:1 by their characters.

One thing that's REALLY important in Korean, is that letters get blocked into syllables, and if you look at the syllable construction you will notice they really NEVER end in consonants. Only vowels. But "Potter" ends in a consonant, which makes it super, SUPER hard for native Koreans to even SAY. It just goes against the grain so badly for them. That's why you get the stereotypically asian "uhh" at the end of words.

It's not David, it's Daviduh

It's not Potter, it's Pottuh

I think you're getting Korean confused with Japanese, Koreans don't really put an "u" sound at the end of things, it's more like an "auh", sounds more like an "o" ending than an "u".

Thanks for this thread OP! I've been wanting to learn to read and write Korean, and since I can kind of already speak it this really helps a beginner like me a lot!

No no you have this wrong they DO put the "uh" sound at the end of things~ I've been learning Korean for almost a year now. It's funny lol once you start learning more it's really interesting how konglish works. Sometimes you can't even figure out what the hell the word is in english. If a Korean looked at the word "David" they would pronounce it Da bee duh but if you said "David" out loud they would pronounce it De-EE-Beh-Duh
"So I turned the lights off at night and practiced by myself"
b0mBerMan
Profile Joined April 2012
Japan289 Posts
April 27 2012 12:02 GMT
#57
Wow it's actually easier than i thought it would be.
I thought it was like the chinese pictograph system.
But it is actually more organized.
rotinegg
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States1719 Posts
April 27 2012 12:09 GMT
#58
Props to the first non-Koreans who figure out what 훼미리마트 and 후라이팬 are in English.
Translator
HaXXspetten
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Sweden15718 Posts
April 27 2012 12:16 GMT
#59
Not quite how I learned Hangul, but I enjoyed it none the less xd
_MagnuM_
Profile Joined July 2011
Denmark136 Posts
April 27 2012 15:04 GMT
#60
this is the best fucking post i've ever seen!
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