Korean Job Discussion Forums

[MollyBloom]

I've been excited as of late because I've been dreaming more frequently in Korean. However, sometimes my dreams are totally crazy! I end up yelling and fighting with someone, or making out with 빅뱅 or 장근석. So weird. Actually, the other week I had a somewhat serious dream and was talking to my old VP about teaching methods with 6th graders.

[Steelrails]

Sometimes happens if I watch Korean movies all day. It's weird, I think it actually makes sense in my dream, and I "feel" like its accurate. Of course when I wake up I'm as clueless as ever.

[Globutron]

I dream pretty much the same as usual. Full of awesomeness. Rarely if ever to do with daily life.

But I don't want to be the one to turn this into a 'what do you dream about' thread. *runs away*

[tardisrider]

Congratulations. You're learning the language. Linguists and specialists in second language acquisition have long found that dreaming in a "new" language is a sign of internalizing the language. Your brain is learning that there's an entirely new linguistic system at work--not just some new vocabulary that can be inserted into the old language "database"--and is working to sort it out as a separate system of communication.

As far as the actual content of your dreams...well, I can't say anything about that.

[MollyBloom]

[misher]

I dream in Korean a lot. However, I have no idea what any of it means. I know it is Korean, but it is vocabulary that I haven't heard before. I actually woke up last week and remembered a few words from my dream and asked my friends if they were Korean words. Sure enough they were....ahhahahaha the mind is crazy...

[Jake_Kim]

Wait until you inadvertently start substituting Korean vocabulary when you're talking in your own native language.

[Vagabundo]

I don't believe any of this,, but if you people say so

[atwood]

[jonpurdy]

[tomato]

You must be deep into the culture.
Until I saw your post, I never heard of 빅뱅 or 장근석.

I remember my first dream in Spanish.
I was visiting a mission school in Peru, where everyone called each other "hermanos espirituales," or "spiritual brothers."
I dreamed that two students from the same family died and returned as ghosts, and hence were called "hermanos espirituales."
Someone asked, "Son verdaderamente espirituales?" which means "Are they really spiritual?"
I ran my hand through the two brothers and found that they were.
At that moment, I woke up with chills all over.

At that time, I was in Peru for less than two weeks.
I have been in Korea for ten years, and my dreams in Korean have been few and far between.

[Steelrails]

[schwa]

Just lately a good portion of dialogue in my dreams has started taking place in korean.

I gave up studying the language methodically as a lost cause* years ago but a certain amount of everyday stuff is internalized now.

I figured this would happen eventually. I find it intriguing.


[*Thats just me. I'm a self-admitted dunce at second languages.]

[Slowmotion]

I love dreaming in Korean cuz I feel like it's extra language practice, I even have to think what to say in the dream since it's not as fluid as English.

[Nadia_M]

Sometimes I dream in French or German. I think it's funny that even in my dream, I pay close attention to proper grammar. Hopefully I'll start dreaming in Korean soon.