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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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 Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
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| Korean generally follows the convention of calling cities & countries by their name in that country's native language. |
Like 미국? :p |
Thats why I said "generally." Theres only a handful of countries they've renamed in Korean. English-speakers, on the other hand... |
I was just teasing you. |
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candy bar
Joined: 03 Dec 2012
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| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 1:19 am Post subject: |
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| One of the main reasons Korean mothers want North American teachers is so the children learn to pronounce words correctly. I'm not making this up. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 1:20 am Post subject: |
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Just curious, which are the countries Korean has its own name for? US, England, Australia, Germany, China, Japan, Thailand, India, & South Africa come to mind.
Any others? |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 2:08 am Post subject: |
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China and Japan actually should not count in my estimation: the pronunciation is different, but the hanja are the same as in the respective countries native languages, so they're not really different words.
The only other ones that comes to mind:
-The (now defunct, obviously) USSR (구소련)
-North Korea (북한)
-An alternative name for the Netherlands (화란)
Russia itself actually also has a hanja name (俄羅斯 - 아라사), but I have never seen it actually used (at least in Korean). |
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