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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River
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| Kind of like when Koreans talk about us thinking we can't understand them. |
LOL, yeah had that happen once before. I mentioned that I was there. The teacher said in a surprised voice "oh, your korean is so good" and that was the rest of the conversation, it got pretty quiet from then on.
I might not be as good as I would like, but I am not completely ignorant anymore either. I do find myself listening more now to whats being said around me, but thats just my desire to understand more.[/quote] |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| I would easily say Americans are MUCH, much louder. |
Americans are the exception though among westerners.i mean they are really notorious for being foghorns. You don't find this nearly so much among europeans for example.
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| and then 6 Koreans around a single table, quietly conversing in the corner. |
Thats only because they're outnumbered.
Sure in a bar anybody gets noisy. But koreans get noisy just about anywhere and everywhere except for perhaps public transport.
I still maintain its anatomical. Their voice pitch is just that much more piercing and shrill. They perform a dramatic aggrassive shouting match in korea to communicate what is a quiet mundane chit-chat in the west. |
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Tundra_Creature
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 6:59 am Post subject: |
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I was under the impression that my family were the loudest speakers around.  If someone in the family is talking, then the other person must talk louder over the person and it seems to create a sort of a chain. My mother says it's because we're a mix of sailors, and middle class English/French Canadians.
Seriously though, I've heard plenty of loud groups of people from no matter what background. I've been invited to friends places who are like 'Sorry if my family is loud; They're Italian/Greek/French/Chinese/Alaskan King Crab.' I think I've come to learn that almost all families are loud. Or they seem to be in the province of Quebec anyway. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 9:43 am Post subject: |
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Sure in a bar anybody gets noisy. But koreans get noisy just about anywhere and everywhere except for perhaps public transport.
I still maintain its anatomical. Their voice pitch is just that much more piercing and shrill. They perform a dramatic aggrassive shouting match in korea to communicate what is a quiet mundane chit-chat in the west. |
Speaking of shrill, Korean females do tend to sound like they are permanently bitching/whining. I hear if a man learns korean from a woman, they will be laughed at due to their different ways of speaking. The men don't sound nearly as whiny. Also in Japan, that annoying extension at the end of every sentence, mostly young girls but generally females. Very irritating.
Still... even in mainly Korean bars, it will seem quieter to me. In Western places, music is ridiculously loud, but westerners speak even more loud over it. Here all I hear is mind numbing music (and the occasional long vowel extended for 7 minutes). I'm getting too old for this. *23 next month* |
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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| I know exactly what you mean Globutron. I'm tired of that negativity at work with my 2 co-teachers. While I don't know exactly what they are saying, they are whining and complaining, because they are under pressure. The kids are very loud, but not the adults. |
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ashland
Joined: 05 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 6:01 am Post subject: Re: Why Koreans have louder voices. |
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My theory is that being a mountainous country, Koreans had to develop loud voices to shout to eachother from hilltop to hilltop before handpones were invented.
Plausible, no? |
your plausibly theory is that you are smarter than them when their average IQ is 49. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 6:59 am Post subject: |
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| AsiaESLbound wrote: |
| I know exactly what you mean Globutron. I'm tired of that negativity at work with my 2 co-teachers. While I don't know exactly what they are saying, they are whining and complaining, because they are under pressure. The kids are very loud, but not the adults. |
Well there is that, but I was more referring to how they sound like whines, even though they're not. To me, they do nothing but whinge 24 hours a day, so knowing from context they are saying well done, or if you get 100% I'll give you a treat or, your child is very smart', but they sound like they're saying 'stop itttt, that's realllly annoying me. I'm sick of the way you do things and I want you to go away, you're like a bad rash' |
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curiousaboutkorea
Joined: 21 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| I don't find Koreans to be generally loud. However, I do find the drunken ajeossis who hang outside my apartment building late at night to be obnoxiously loud. They're outside right now, and I'm stuck here listening to them. Warm weather is the worst for it. It's what I get for living near a bunch of room salons. |
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charliebrown84
Joined: 29 Jul 2009
Location: Daegu, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| curiousaboutkorea wrote: |
| I don't find Koreans to be generally loud. However, I do find the drunken ajeossis who hang outside my apartment building late at night to be obnoxiously loud. They're outside right now, and I'm stuck here listening to them. Warm weather is the worst for it. It's what I get for living near a bunch of room salons. |
I agree with you on this bunch being the only loud Koreans I've run into. Unless you include the horny cats fighting in the middle of the night, and the foxes yipping it up at all hours of the night.
I've been to a couple Korean-style bars and they are genuinely more quiet than Western bars. Just an observation. |
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lifeinkorea
Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Location: somewhere in China
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| Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 2:25 am Post subject: |
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If you think Koreans are loud, don't come to China. Not only are they 5 times as loud, they spit, bump, and pee on the sidewalks. Then they walk their dogs and let them poo all over.
I am starting to understand this boshintang thing. Keeps the dogs and smells off the streets and feeds people. |
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balzor
Joined: 14 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 5:19 am Post subject: |
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Every time I go out with my foreign buddies, I get nervous and uncomfortable with the loudness of their voices. Especially in restaurants.
Koreans tend to have places to be loud, and places to be noisy. There are way more noisy places than loud, of course, but it is obvious when you are in a quiet place. Many foreigners don't seem to be able to pick up on that vibe.
On a side note, I hate it when foreigners make inappropriate jokes, thinking those around them can't understand. |
agree i have friends that do this and i cringe and look around being ready to duck |
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The Gipkik
Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 5:31 am Post subject: |
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| Farm folks the world over are loud. Older Koreans, but not only, are loud because it's part of their heritage. Loud, pushy. Sounds like farm folks to me. All dressed up, but the straw is still poking out of their nicely coiffed hair. |
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yeti08
Joined: 04 Nov 2009
Location: Anyang - Pyeongchon
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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My principal is insanely loud. Her voice makes me really think about wearing earplugs to work. I don't understand it. She talks on the phone constantly and I really wonder, "does she have to be screaming into the phone?" "Is she talking to people that are standing at a busy bus stop or beside a jet engine.
Koreans on average aren't any louder than your average New Yorker, I think it's just the busy city syndrome. Although when someone is yelling gibberish (to people, including myself who don't fully understand the language) it's much more annoying. |
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yeti08
Joined: 04 Nov 2009
Location: Anyang - Pyeongchon
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Before someone says it ^ learn the language, yes I know. |
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nickeb505
Joined: 09 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| WHAT WHAT?!!!! AMERICANS are louder than europeans? So you're excluding the Brits plastered at 4am watching big men in tight shorts hugging each other while thrusting themsleves into each other to move a oddly shaped ball down a field screaming at the top of their lungs? Are we excluding the bunch of Irish lads singing annoying Irish songs at Wolfhound in masses with zero respect for the rest of the people in the place? For the most part most of the Americans here are nerdy dudes into Star Trek and DD, soft spoken guys taking about wizards and magical spells while they smoke their clover cigs in the corner of some coffee shop. Maybe those are the Canadians. Either way I can't believe Americans are the loudest folks in this country. |
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