Korean Job Discussion Forums

panthermodern · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: Taxronto

My answers:

1. No (don't care)
2. No (I like my money too much to use Korean)
3. No (I don't talk to street urchins)
4. No (Why would I?)
5. No (my L's look like niun's though, always have)
6. No (well, yes, but I have never to my knowledge actually said the presidents name, so no)
7. No (I do watch Korean movies to learn Korean however)
8. No (Why would I)
9. No ( I am paid to be picky)
10. No (Korean is Verbotten in my School)
11. No (can't do that in English)
12. No (No, I don't have a libary card, anywhere, anymore)
13. No (I don't like talking to strangers)
14. No (I hear korean songs, I do not listen to them)
15. No (I don't sing)
16. No (see 10, plus I have never had to)
17. No (I hate crowds looking over my shoulder)
18. No (I feel guilty for other reasons)
19. No (I don't have a phone book)
20. Yes BINGO

So I scored a one, there you go.

kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

tomato · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 7:42 pm Post subject:

Hello, Kangnam Dragon!

In the United States, we usually say "hello" on so-mi:

We also have many other routine courtesies which we say on these two pitches, too.
That's what I mean by G-E.

However, mi-la seems to appear more often in Korean spoken intonation.
If my ear for music is doing me right, that's how they say "Annyeong."

That's what I mean by an E-A.

I hope you don't feel hurt because you didn't fit in the highest bracket.
By "Korean language geek," I don't necessarily mean one who is proficient in the Korean language, but rather one who is obsessed with the Korean language.

kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

Ah, so when I say anyeong to the kids, and the pitch goes up (like anyeoooooong), then I get the extra point. I think that is what you mean.

P.S. anyone who really likes learning about the language, read Roadmap to Korean. There is an interesting part about how America really got its Korean name mi-guk.

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

or you could just tell us how it happened.

kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

sorry...you are right, but it's a long story about how the Chinse and Japanese could not pronounce America so they took the me part from a-mi-ri-ka and used their own characters which sounded like mi...so it is rice in Japanese and beautiful in Chinese. But, the book does a better job.