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| When communicating with your Korean partner, which language do you use? |
| English all or virtually all of the time. |
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56% |
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| English the majority of the time but a fair amount of Korean too. |
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25% |
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| English about half of the time and Korean about half. |
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2% |
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| Korean the majority of the time but a fair amount of English too. |
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10% |
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| Korean all or virtually all of the time. |
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| Depends totally on our mood. |
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| We usually communicate in a language other than English and Korean. |
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ABC KID
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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 Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:09 am Post subject: Got A Korean Partner? - Which Language Do You Use? |
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For those people with Korean husbands/wives/boyfriends/girlfriends, which language do you communicate in?
What are your reasons - Is it purely down to ability (one of you can't speak the other language well or one person is particularly good at their partner's language) or is there a different reason such as building up one person's language skills for a particular reason... |
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| She uses Korean pretty much all the time. I use Korean most of the time except when it's late and I'm tired, then I switch to speaking slowly in English using words I know she understands. |
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Homer
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:06 am Post subject: |
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50-50.
Her English is excellent. I am fluent in Korean.
It will depend on the topic/situation.
Also, with our son we have a language policy. I speak to him exclusively in English and she exclusively in Korean.
When around her folks we speak Korean.
I find speaking Korean helped me get to know her better and speaking English helped her know me better. It is just such a positive. |
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ABC KID
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:12 am Post subject: |
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In hindsight, my option 'Depends totally on our mood' was probably not a good choice as whatever the outcomes of these moods is, would probably fit into one of the other poll options...
Please try to avoid that option if possible.
It seems to be impossible to delete one poll option after the poll started even if no-one has cast a vote for that option - Is that right?
Anyway please keep the votes coming in... Thanks |
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ABC KID
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| Homer wrote: |
Also, with our son we have a language policy. I speak to him exclusively in English and she exclusively in Korean.
I find speaking Korean helped me get to know her better and speaking English helped her know me better. It is just such a positive. |
My wife and I use a similar language policy with our child. Many couples just use one language with their kid though.
I also agree with you about speaking the other's language - it also helped my wife and I get to know each other better. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:58 am Post subject: Re: Got A Korean Partner? - Which Language Do You Use? |
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| ABC KID wrote: |
| For those people with Korean husbands/wives/boyfriends/girlfriends, which language do you communicate in? |
Depends on our mood, and who we are hanging with at the time. If it's wth her friends, we speak Korean; if mine, we speak English. In private, I'd say it's maybe 60/40 English/Korean, and would more Korean but my vocab sucks so I have to switch back to English for clarification or translation. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:58 am Post subject: |
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95-5 in English. Her English is great (Got her TESOL in Toronto), so other that "what are you doing" "hungry?" etc. we speak only in English. The only time we really converse in Korean is when around her parents, which is then exclusively in Korean.
(Woops, got my languages mixed up.)
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Homer
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| I also found that even if her English is excellent, it took our relationship to a whole new level once we started talking in Korean. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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| ABC KID wrote: |
My wife and I use a similar language policy with our child. Many couples just use one language with their kid though.
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Actually when it cones to our child, my wife speaks Korean and I speak English. He doesn't even confuse the language and knows the difference (he is 2.5 years old). |
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KumaraKitty
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Location: Bucheon
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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Hubby is not really Korean, he just has Korean citizenship, we tease him all the time! He was born in Bucheon, moved to the USA at 5, forgot Korean, spoke only English, did all his schooling there and returned to Korea at 22. Re-learned Korean in the Korean army doing his mandatory 2 year service.
We plan to have him speak Korean to our child and I will speak English.
We only speak English at home, which means my Korean is still survival only, and everytime I ask him to help me, he just starts talking completely in Korean and I understand nothing. His reading and writing skills are poor in Korean, so he can't help me study, he can only speak it. |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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We use English almost all of the time. He's had foreign girlfriends before, so his English is very good. Also, we intend to live in the States fairly soon, so it's more important to continue to work on his English.
We speak Korean sometimes to clarify things and we use Korean sometimes when in front of my friends who don't speak Korean (to tell him not to talk about something or to clarify something) or with his friends who don't speak English. When we're with my family, we intend to speak Korean a bit between us so we can say "I want to leave, let's say I'm sick" without being rude.
OK, without being rude is questionable, but I don't care. 
We're becoming good friends with another couple like us. Her boyfriend's English is fairly low, so we like getting together. She and I run off in English, they run off in Korean. It's comfortable. |
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superdave
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: over there ----->
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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i'm white and i come from a superior society. therefore we speak english. *kidding, that would be extreme sarcasm!*
as currency, the korean language has virtually no value outside korea. the english language, however ethnocentric it may seem, has enormous value.
my wife and i prioritise improving her english to the point where she could get a full time profession in an english speaking country. so we speak mostly english at home. we throw around some korean for fun ... usually when we fight, but otherwise it's usually english.
besides, i'm paid to speak english and both of my employers demand that i don't speak korean to students (in or out of the classroom).
having said all that, where's the incentive to learn fluent korean?
(don't take my post too seriously, i'm just having fun and enjoying being a little adversarial this morning) |
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crazy_arcade
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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having said all that, where's the incentive to learn fluent korean?
(don't take my post too seriously, i'm just having fun and enjoying being a little adversarial this morning) |
I'm probably get to know her better.
It shows a true partnership.
It's fun.
Some people fall in love with a person that doesn't want to live outside of their native country. Learning fluent Korean will provide much better economic opportunities. |
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ABC KID
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Homer wrote: |
I am fluent in Korean.
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Homer, in your case how do you define fluent?
Do you just mean you can talk quickly on subjects you know well or do you mean the whole hog and that you can confidently talk about and comprehend the Korean language on almost any subject, excluding perhaps very technical language?
If the answer is the latter how did you achieve it - Did you do lots and lots of study or did you just fully immerse yourself in Korean society?
How long did it take you? |
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Faunaki
Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:01 pm Post subject: KOrean. |
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| English because my Korean sucks so bad. Hopefully that will change. |
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