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intergalactic
Joined: 19 May 2003
Location: Brisbane
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 Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| ladyandthetramp wrote: |
Maybe you pronounce "money" a lot differently than everyone I know, though.  |
Hmmmmm, how do YOU pronounce "money"?  |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| intergalactic wrote: |
| Back to the OP (and my korean is terrible by the way, but this really annoys me), could we all pronounce 10,000 as the first syllable in 'money', instead of 'MAN' the opposite of woman?? It irks me to hear foreigners talking about ANdong where they spent 4 MAN wons in a yARGWARN. |
Totally, but it's not just "man." It's also nam, as in NAMbu, GangNAM,NAMsan mountain. Its like come on people, its not freaking hard to figure out. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Circus Monkey wrote: |
| Most, if not all major companies in Korea when conducting overseas business trips have at least one person in the group who has a good command of English. Or the host company will sometimes provide a translator. Perhaps, crazy, your pal would have liked to have known Korean better so as to impress the Koreans and then form some kind of bond. |
I have been the only Korean speaker in a city school sytem back home. The value of knowing Korean outside Korea is not just to make a good impression. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 8:12 pm Post subject: Re: Things about oreigners' Korean that irk me |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| 2 - Mixing up ���� and �ݸ�. ������, ����? ��¥?? ������! Or the guy that asks kids ���� �� �߾��? ������ �ؾ���! |
Great thread. I do want to argue with this particular point, though... I agree with your first example where ���� would clearly be more appropriate. But talking to students politely (not honourifically) is not a blunder by any means, no matter how old they are. Some modern parents use ���� with their own kids, although not consistently. I'm not saying not to use �ݸ� with kids -- I'm just saying it's not necessarily wrong to use ����, although some more traditional Koreans disagree. |
At the kindergarten I work at, they use ���븻 a lot. It teaches the young children how to use it to their elders and teachers. It's barely a blunder at all.
I don't like the complaining about how people say ���� and ����. It's not like they do it on purpose. Anyways, I don't know many Koreans who can pronounce 'beer' properly...it's more like 'bee-eo'. It's natural for them, just like how many of us have problems with the more unique Korean sounds. |
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