Korean Job Discussion Forums

[rabidcake]

Hello, First post for me here, and just a bit curious about learning the Korean language.

I wanted to know if anyone one of you had a list of where I could find a list of Korean cogantes/loan words with the Chinese language and a list of loan words used in Korean coming from the English language.

Any idea if such a list exists? Thank you.

[giraffe]

I dont know about chinese. Im sure theres alot.
As far as english words in the korean language there would be far to many to list. YOu could fill half a dictionary lol. Learn Hangeul and just read korean and youll see english words written in korean everywhere.

[doggyji]

[curlygirl]

Handbook of Korean vocabulary, Miho Choo and William O'Grady. University of Hawai'i. It's a resource of Chinese/Korean words. Extremely useful as a study aid once you get to the higher levels of Korean language proficiency.

[rabidcake]

[schwa]

I'm no expert, but the influence of chinese on korean strikes me as analogous to latin & english. You can get at the roots of a lot of the more formal terms.

There are tons of borrowed english words. Koreans talking to Koreans sense out each other's education level by how many they sprinkle in. Once you know which english words are commonly understood its quite possible to communicate in pidgin with Koreans who claim they know no english. Basic korean isnt all that difficult either.

[earthbound14]