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yangban
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The Great Green Pacific Northwest
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 Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 6:37 am Post subject: Are more foreigners speaking Korean? |
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| After reading several posts on this board, it seems that more and more people are learning Korean and then using it in other countries, including their own. I speak a little Korean, I usually use it when I am highly emotional, because it is a place that evokes so much emotion in me, even though I am back in the US. But it is interesting to note when people just use it with Koreans abroad, with Koreans in country, etc. I think the word is out. Korean is not just for Koreans anymore. |
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ladyandthetramp
Joined: 21 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:10 am Post subject: Re: Are more foreigners speaking Korean? |
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| yangban wrote: |
| After reading several posts on this board, it seems that more and more people are learning Korean and then using it in other countries, including their own. I speak a little Korean, I usually use it when I am highly emotional, because it is a place that evokes so much emotion in me, even though I am back in the US. But it is interesting to note when people just use it with Koreans abroad, with Koreans in country, etc. I think the word is out. Korean is not just for Koreans anymore. |
Um...in my Korean classes in the U.S. there were four non-Korean people who studied it. I think my university was the only public university in my state to offer Korean. Four non-Korean(-Americans)! I highly doubt this is a phenomenon. Sorry to say, but Korean remains for the Koreans. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:13 am Post subject: Re: Are more foreigners speaking Korean? |
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| ladyandthetramp wrote: |
| yangban wrote: |
| After reading several posts on this board, it seems that more and more people are learning Korean and then using it in other countries, including their own. I speak a little Korean, I usually use it when I am highly emotional, because it is a place that evokes so much emotion in me, even though I am back in the US. But it is interesting to note when people just use it with Koreans abroad, with Koreans in country, etc. I think the word is out. Korean is not just for Koreans anymore. |
Um...in my Korean classes in the U.S. there were four non-Korean people who studied it. I think my university was the only public university in my state to offer Korean. Four non-Korean(-Americans)! I highly doubt this is a phenomenon. Sorry to say, but Korean remains for the Koreans. |
When I studied Korean, there were only two of us (non-Koreans) in Korean class of over 100 students. This was back in the 1980s. Incidentally, both of us wound up working in Korea.
The remainder of the students were kyopos taking the class for an easy A. |
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helly
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: WORLDWIDE
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 9:00 am Post subject: |
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I took Japanese in college for the "easy A" (I studied it for 3 years in high school."
It didn't work, I coasted because it was so easy for the first half of the term, then fell behind as it got more advanced. Had to scrape and kick tail on the final to pull off a B.
Wonder if any Kyopos experienced this |
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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 Aug 12, 2004 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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Last year, there was a Christmas party for foreign volunteers at an orphanage in Seoul. The place with packed with foreigners. I didn't see any other foreigners speaking Korean to the children or to the workers.
It must be that there are fewer people studying Korean than it seems because those few who are studying Korean brag about it. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| helly wrote: |
I took Japanese in college for the "easy A" (I studied it for 3 years in high school."
It didn't work, I coasted because it was so easy for the first half of the term, then fell behind as it got more advanced. Had to scrape and kick tail on the final to pull off a B.
Wonder if any Kyopos experienced this |
In our case, the professor was so annoyed that he introduced the teaching of Chinese characters almost immediately, correctly guessing that few kyopos had learned them at home. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 2:35 am Post subject: Re: Are more foreigners speaking Korean? |
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| ladyandthetramp wrote: |
Um...in my Korean classes in the U.S. there were four non-Korean people who studied it. I think my university was the only public university in my state to offer Korean. Four non-Korean(-Americans)! I highly doubt this is a phenomenon. Sorry to say, but Korean remains for the Koreans. |
My university had it, but I'm sure it was filled with Korean-Americans and Koreans themselves to boost their GPAs. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:52 pm Post subject: yes |
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If anything, less people are learning it, if you ask me.
People tend not to see any reason to study it if not living in KOrea. Korea has a way of driving away foreigners, good and bad, with corruption, pollution, and the like. In my time in Korea, many long-timers left for the final time. I saw a lot of fresh new faces.
Maybe some of you have had different experiences, but that's what I saw. |
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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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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location
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Haha, I meant to get around to posting on that thread again. Maybe in the next couple of days 
I'm not surprised no one posted there. Absolute beginners are perhaps reluctant to put their writing out there and people who speak well don't need the practise. Probably leaves a small group of people who can speak a bit and want to actively practise (when we get around to it!)
That said, I'd really like to see a 100% korean thread on this board, and not just one for fluent or near fluent speakers. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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The problem is that i don't come here to practice Korean. i can do that anywhere outside of this forum, with my girlfriend, friends,etc.
These days I talk less English than Korean(even though it is still sketchy) so it keeps my vocab skills up for English you could say. |
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