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ABC KID
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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| tomato wrote: |
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| I live in a smallish city and the local 2-year college student body is 10% foreign, most of whom are Chinese citizens. |
I'm curious: where is that?
Cheongju, by any chance? |
Tomato, do you live in Cheongju? |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 2:20 am Post subject: |
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No, but I used to.
I worked at the university, where there was a Korean class for foreigners.
All the other students in the class were Asian university students. |
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jack_b57
Joined: 02 Sep 2010
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The most popular language in Korea?
The language...of love. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 4:24 am Post subject: |
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The fun thing about small languages (including Esperanto) is that studying one of them means instant friendship with just about anyone who speaks it. Tell someone from Spain or Germany that you're studying Spanish or German and they'll wish you good luck, but tell someone from Estonia that you're studying Estonian and they'll tell you to come visit and stay at their house.
Personally my favourite IAL is this one:
http://occidentalita.blogspot.com/2009/08/recidivist.html
It has all the advantages of Esperanto but comes across as a 'natural' language as well. But since the biggest battle IALs have is with indifference (and not with each other) the more Esperantists the better too. |
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happiness
Joined: 04 Sep 2010
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BTW, I didn't know there were mosques in Korea. Aren't Koreans frown on any religion that are not Buddhism or Christian... even if freedom of religion is technically there by law? |
they just frown on anything they dont do or have, I even heard once my bottle of "cider" I was drinking wasnt good because it wasnt the brand the guy liked. DAMN SON! its a cheap bottle of soda Ill pee out in an hour. After that, I always ignore with a "yea yea"
There are about 100000 Korea Muslims and Korea has its own Imam. They converted while living in the middle east in the 70s on construction projects.
oh, and they like Jews..well they think they do, because jews are smart and rich.  |
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jzrossef
Joined: 05 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| happiness wrote: |
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BTW, I didn't know there were mosques in Korea. Aren't Koreans frown on any religion that are not Buddhism or Christian... even if freedom of religion is technically there by law? |
they just frown on anything they dont do or have, I even heard once my bottle of "cider" I was drinking wasnt good because it wasnt the brand the guy liked. DAMN SON! its a cheap bottle of soda Ill pee out in an hour. After that, I always ignore with a "yea yea"
There are about 100000 Korea Muslims and Korea has its own Imam. They converted while living in the middle east in the 70s on construction projects.
oh, and they like Jews..well they think they do, because jews are smart and rich. |
Haha, yeah I heard. I still remember reading bunch of books praising Jewish-style education and mindset. (Only in terms of education and finance, but the point is there) I'm guessing that antisemitism isn't very common here simply because we don't run into them much. (We have plenty of people to use as scapegoats already) |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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| jzrossef wrote: |
| happiness wrote: |
| jzrossef wrote: |
BTW, I didn't know there were mosques in Korea. Aren't Koreans frown on any religion that are not Buddhism or Christian... even if freedom of religion is technically there by law? |
they just frown on anything they dont do or have, I even heard once my bottle of "cider" I was drinking wasnt good because it wasnt the brand the guy liked. DAMN SON! its a cheap bottle of soda Ill pee out in an hour. After that, I always ignore with a "yea yea"
There are about 100000 Korea Muslims and Korea has its own Imam. They converted while living in the middle east in the 70s on construction projects.
oh, and they like Jews..well they think they do, because jews are smart and rich. |
Haha, yeah I heard. I still remember reading bunch of books praising Jewish-style education and mindset. (Only in terms of education and finance, but the point is there) I'm guessing that antisemitism isn't very common here simply because we don't run into them much. (We have plenty of people to use as scapegoats already) |
Active, malicious antisemitism isn't all that common but misconceptions and stereotypes are.
A Korean professor wrote a picture book on world history called Meon Nara, Ieut Nara (Near Countries, Far Countries) full of virulently hateful and ignorant anti-Semitic diatribes.
You can see some excerpted translations and photos of it here:
http://monnarakorea.blogspot.com/2007/01/chapter-8-one-must-know-jews-to-truly.html
The scariest part?
It sold about 10 million copies. The population of South Korea? About 50 million. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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This is fascinating!
First thing I'll do tomorrow morning is go to the bookstore and see if I can buy a copy. |
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