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Korean is a Catagory III language according to the US Foreign Service and US State Department. I have no idea what that implies about how hard it is for a Korean speaker to pick up English (somehow I doubt learning difficulty is Symmetric) but it means that Korean is as hard a language as you are going to find for Idra to just pick up.
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I actually am taking a Korean course at my school right now, for me it seems pretty easy, compared to English and Chinese, which are both my native languages, especially on the written part.
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On April 05 2009 18:26 pjwin wrote: Hahahahahaha! This thread is awesome
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On April 06 2009 07:29 keit wrote:????????????? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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nevermind, awesome video
LOL HIERARCHY IS MAINTAINED LOL
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On April 06 2009 10:18 ArvickHero wrote:Show nested quote +On April 06 2009 09:39 Jibba wrote:On April 06 2009 08:36 ArvickHero wrote:On April 05 2009 15:37 JWD wrote:On April 05 2009 15:32 ArvickHero wrote:On April 05 2009 14:39 IdrA wrote:On April 05 2009 14:35 Grobyc wrote: So did you understand none of that IdrA? Or do you actually speak a decent amount of korean? well for the exercise part it was easy enough but for the lectures no i barely speak any, and i was asleep most of the time Barely any korean? Shouldn't you have been making the effort to learn the Korean language so that you'd be able to discuss w/ your team mates? Yeah IdrA, I mean you've been in Korea for a year and you haven't won a Starleague or become fluent in Korean? WTF man, WTF. + Show Spoiler +some people have ridiculous expectations o.o I know a lot of Koreans who learned to speak english quite well within a year of moving to the US. Not completely fluently, but they were able to talk in english well enough so that they could hold a conversation. A year and being surrounded in a korean-speaking environment should have been more than enough to learn the Korean language to a point where he can discuss things w/ his team mates, at least on a basic level. English is easier to learn, and they likely had more prior training than Idra did. Not only that, but they also had more time to go out and get involved with the world, rather than practicing 8+ hours a day. Whatever your friends did really has no comparison to Idra's experience. English is one of the hardest languages for a foreigner to learn.
lol bullshit statement? English is easy. Not only because of its structure but also because of the reason that pretty much everything can be found in english. If English is the hardest language to learn 'for a foreigner', then what the hell are you gonna call Chinese, Finnish, Polish, etc?
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On April 06 2009 11:26 Fr33t wrote:Hahahahahaha! This thread is awesome
The video was ok, but after the pictures started pouring in it instantly got amazing.
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also that vid was so priceless lol :D
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Unreal expectations on language again. It doesn't matter how easy korean is, if you don't have any time to spend learning it. Comparing Idra's situation to probably exchange/graduate students in the U.S. is a joke in so many ways.
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On April 06 2009 10:18 ArvickHero wrote:Show nested quote +On April 06 2009 09:39 Jibba wrote:On April 06 2009 08:36 ArvickHero wrote:On April 05 2009 15:37 JWD wrote:On April 05 2009 15:32 ArvickHero wrote:On April 05 2009 14:39 IdrA wrote:On April 05 2009 14:35 Grobyc wrote: So did you understand none of that IdrA? Or do you actually speak a decent amount of korean? well for the exercise part it was easy enough but for the lectures no i barely speak any, and i was asleep most of the time Barely any korean? Shouldn't you have been making the effort to learn the Korean language so that you'd be able to discuss w/ your team mates? Yeah IdrA, I mean you've been in Korea for a year and you haven't won a Starleague or become fluent in Korean? WTF man, WTF. + Show Spoiler +some people have ridiculous expectations o.o I know a lot of Koreans who learned to speak english quite well within a year of moving to the US. Not completely fluently, but they were able to talk in english well enough so that they could hold a conversation. A year and being surrounded in a korean-speaking environment should have been more than enough to learn the Korean language to a point where he can discuss things w/ his team mates, at least on a basic level. English is easier to learn, and they likely had more prior training than Idra did. Not only that, but they also had more time to go out and get involved with the world, rather than practicing 8+ hours a day. Whatever your friends did really has no comparison to Idra's experience. I would argue that Korean is easier to learn than English. English is one of the hardest languages for a foreigner to learn. I don't know how hard Korean is to a foreigner, but I would say it isn't as hard as English. Idra should be able to ask basic things like "what did I do wrong" and "How do you do this" or maybe even "what is this player known for" and "I would like some rice and meat" at the very least of things, and understand enough Korean to be able to have a nearly complete idea of what exactly they are saying. I'm not saying that he should be able to be able to translate complete korean interviews or be able to watch a show and understand everything that is said, I'm saying he should be able to at least converse with his team mates at the basic level. disagreed, english is probably the easiest language to learn
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less engrish/korean more universal language of funny shops
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On April 06 2009 12:17 Xeofreestyler wrote:Show nested quote +On April 06 2009 10:18 ArvickHero wrote:On April 06 2009 09:39 Jibba wrote:On April 06 2009 08:36 ArvickHero wrote:On April 05 2009 15:37 JWD wrote:On April 05 2009 15:32 ArvickHero wrote:On April 05 2009 14:39 IdrA wrote:On April 05 2009 14:35 Grobyc wrote: So did you understand none of that IdrA? Or do you actually speak a decent amount of korean? well for the exercise part it was easy enough but for the lectures no i barely speak any, and i was asleep most of the time Barely any korean? Shouldn't you have been making the effort to learn the Korean language so that you'd be able to discuss w/ your team mates? Yeah IdrA, I mean you've been in Korea for a year and you haven't won a Starleague or become fluent in Korean? WTF man, WTF. + Show Spoiler +some people have ridiculous expectations o.o I know a lot of Koreans who learned to speak english quite well within a year of moving to the US. Not completely fluently, but they were able to talk in english well enough so that they could hold a conversation. A year and being surrounded in a korean-speaking environment should have been more than enough to learn the Korean language to a point where he can discuss things w/ his team mates, at least on a basic level. English is easier to learn, and they likely had more prior training than Idra did. Not only that, but they also had more time to go out and get involved with the world, rather than practicing 8+ hours a day. Whatever your friends did really has no comparison to Idra's experience. English is one of the hardest languages for a foreigner to learn. lol bullshit statement? English is easy. Not only because of its structure but also because of the reason that pretty much everything can be found in english. If English is the hardest language to learn 'for a foreigner', then what the hell are you gonna call Chinese, Finnish, Polish, etc? lol if only people saying such stupid crap about english being the hardest tried polish/finnish for once~~
btw, this thread is awesome.
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A 5 hours lecture? Shit, son that must have sucked.
edit LOL at the omnomnom image. 300 one is great too
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On April 06 2009 12:17 Xeofreestyler wrote:Show nested quote +On April 06 2009 10:18 ArvickHero wrote:On April 06 2009 09:39 Jibba wrote:On April 06 2009 08:36 ArvickHero wrote:On April 05 2009 15:37 JWD wrote:On April 05 2009 15:32 ArvickHero wrote:On April 05 2009 14:39 IdrA wrote:On April 05 2009 14:35 Grobyc wrote: So did you understand none of that IdrA? Or do you actually speak a decent amount of korean? well for the exercise part it was easy enough but for the lectures no i barely speak any, and i was asleep most of the time Barely any korean? Shouldn't you have been making the effort to learn the Korean language so that you'd be able to discuss w/ your team mates? Yeah IdrA, I mean you've been in Korea for a year and you haven't won a Starleague or become fluent in Korean? WTF man, WTF. + Show Spoiler +some people have ridiculous expectations o.o I know a lot of Koreans who learned to speak english quite well within a year of moving to the US. Not completely fluently, but they were able to talk in english well enough so that they could hold a conversation. A year and being surrounded in a korean-speaking environment should have been more than enough to learn the Korean language to a point where he can discuss things w/ his team mates, at least on a basic level. English is easier to learn, and they likely had more prior training than Idra did. Not only that, but they also had more time to go out and get involved with the world, rather than practicing 8+ hours a day. Whatever your friends did really has no comparison to Idra's experience. English is one of the hardest languages for a foreigner to learn. lol bullshit statement? English is easy. Not only because of its structure but also because of the reason that pretty much everything can be found in english. If English is the hardest language to learn 'for a foreigner', then what the hell are you gonna call Chinese, Finnish, Polish, etc?
Apparently Turkish is ridiculous because there's no set sentence pattern, like subject, verb, object and you can put words together however you want, making it difficult for foreigners to learn. I hear that speaking Chinese is easy, it's just learning all the characters that make it a bit of a hassle.
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ghostWriter, Chinese is a tonal language, and there are words which are "exactly" the same just said in a different tone, changing meaning.
If you dont get the tones right people will think your retarded i guess.
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On April 06 2009 11:26 Fr33t wrote:Hahahahahaha! This thread is awesome Idra looks like a plank there anyway hahah
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LOOOOL. Strange song, poor idra I feel bad for you to have to put up with that lolz. I bet July skips his exercises
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