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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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 Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Corporal wrote: |
| Those are terrible romanizations. Really, really bad. |
I agree. They are not to be used for spelling. They are phonetic helpers. I put them all in quotation marks for a reason.
The 10 Words for Newbie Dummies guide is for the absolute beginner.
"annyeong haseyo" does NOT help figure out pronunciation if one is approaching a foreign language for the first time as a newbie off the boat.
"ann-yawn ha-say-yo" helps you know the breaks and approximate sounds ("yawn","say").
It is to help for the first day or two. Hope it does for someone. |
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noelinkorea
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: Shinchon, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 2:29 am Post subject: spelling in Latin alphabet |
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| I think it's interesting to see how people spell out Korean in the Latin alphabet - you can almost guess where the people come, judging by what word they give is most similar to the Korean pronunciation....well - Americans seem to have problems with �� and ��...they seem to be quite similar for them. Giving �� as in 'yawn' seem to follow only American pronunciation, and doesn't seem that close to the Korean one IMHO. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 3:40 am Post subject: |
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| noelinkorea wrote: |
| I think it's interesting to see how people spell out Korean in the Latin alphabet |
 I know, darn it. I know. The sound is close, not perfect. It's a 10-minute guide 10 Words for Newbie Dummies. When I first came I found all the pronunciation helpbooks too detailed for the little time I invested in it (I should have studied more, but didn't).
"ann-yawn" is approximate and one will quickly make the small adjustments as one quickly hears it said. But anyeong haseyo was totally unhelpful for me when I came because I didn't know how to read it.
| noelinkorea wrote: |
| you can almost guess where the people come, judging by what word they give is most similar to the Korean pronunciation....well - Americans seem to have problems with �� and ��...they seem to be quite similar for them. |
Close, but no cigar. I'm all Canadian. 
So, you fellow dummies out there. Do what I wish I could have at least done. Print off the ten words phonetically spelt then jump on the airplane and come on over. Then stop being a dummy and learn how to read the language. Or, don't be a dummy in the first place, and learn the alphabet before you come over. |
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