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DanielInKorea
Joined: 28 Nov 2005
Location: Not a small village
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 Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:53 am Post subject: Dating/Married to a Korean? What language do you speak? |
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Hi, just interested in the subject since I myself have recently started dating a Korean girl.
Since she doesn't speak English very well and my Korean level is reasonable, we almost completely speak in Korean.
What about everyone else? |
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out of context
Joined: 08 Jan 2006
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| It's sometimes frustrating to try to communicate in Korean, but when I speak English I always find myself having to repeat and explain things, and it's a bit too teacher-y for my time off. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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Well, seeing as she has excellent English ability and is almost fluent (except for pronunciation  ), all of our conversations are in English. However, a lot of one liners, or questions are in Korean, such as: Hungry? Where are you going? I'm tired. ETC.
So, I guess in the end, we speak English probably 80% of the time. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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| It's sometimes frustrating to try to communicate in Korean, but when I speak English I always find myself having to repeat and explain things, and it's a bit too teacher-y for my time off. |
I am assuming it's the exact same the other way around. |
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out of context
Joined: 08 Jan 2006
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I think I'm pretty low-maintenance. If I don't understand it, most of the time I just let it go unless it's important. And this has not been a unilateral decision of mine, anyway. |
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JAWINSEOUL
Joined: 19 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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Although I am feverishly learning Korean, it's more important for her career to learn English.
I have a private Korean teacher on the side. Some people see this as strange, but it satisfies our long term goals. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| JAWINSEOUL wrote: |
Although I am feverishly learning Korean, it's more important for her career to learn English.
I have a private Korean teacher on the side. Some people see this as strange, but it satisfies our long term goals. |
male or female  |
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Homer
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| We speak 3 languages....sometimes mixed together in one confusing sentence... |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| It's sometimes frustrating to try to communicate in Korean, but when I speak English I always find myself having to repeat and explain things, and it's a bit too teacher-y for my time off. |
I think it's more of, after a long day of teaching, the last thing he wants to do is go home and teach. Whereas for her, it isn't something she does all day and probably doesn't mind doing it. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Homer wrote: |
| We speak 3 languages....sometimes mixed together in one confusing sentence... |
Ya, I did that with the last girl I was dating. It's funny how sometimes the sentence can actually sound right  |
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Homer
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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laogaiguk,
Too true!
They start in one language...morph into the second and end in the third and make perfect sense!
Weird...  |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject: Re: Dating/Married to a Korean? What language do you speak? |
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| DanielInKorea wrote: |
Since she doesn't speak English very well and my Korean level is reasonable, we almost completely speak in Korean.
What about everyone else? |
Don't say that here--there are people with reading comprehension problems who insists that means you can't communicate with your partner at all. 
(We've gone down this road before.) Cue whiny Dogbert and sparkx with their protests and stomps and demands.... "But I just don't UNDERSTAND how anyone could live with someone who doesn't speak their own LANGUAGE! WAaaaah!" |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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| I hadn't really given this subject much consideration until the other day, when I ran into a friend of mine who has a 3 year old daughter. She speaks no English. My friend was playing with her, asking her things and telling her things but mostly she just stared blankly at him and the only speaking she did was in Korean. My friend's Korean is OK at best, and I couldn't understand why you would want to raise a child who couldn't at least speak to you in your own mother tongue. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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We speak both...whatever comes out of our heads..
When we go out together people give us some wierd looks at times as I will speak Korean and she will speak English and we both have no problems understanding each other..it is pretty funny but to us seems very normal...
her level of english is higher but conversation wise we are both pretty much fluent |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I didn't vote as there is no 50/50 option. Not much of a poll really, is it? |
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