Korean Job Discussion Forums

[afsjesse]

I am starting a class where my fellow coworkers are the students. The goal is to improve their overall English fluency. To help me out, I was wondering if any of you could tell me some mistakes korean use when speaking. Aside from what Ive already written below.

1. The prolonged eeee as in Englisheeee
2. Confusing the meanings of much and many. ex: Many money
3. Not pronouncing the S on plural words ex: My two textbook are at home
4. Nor pronouncing the F as in Coffee
5. Not saying the personal A as in A cup or THE as in The cup.

Anything else that im overlooking. I know there are lots of things people notice.

[Saxiif]

6. Working hard vs. hardly working.
7. Everyday vs. every day.
8. Articles in general.

[seoulsucker]

Boring vs. bored.

Fun vs. funny.

Scared vs. scary.

[Captain Corea]

Coke vs C.o.c.k (true story)

[poet13]

Nice to meet you vs Nice to see you.
13-14-15-16-17-18-19 vs 30-40-50-60-70-70-80-90
adding a vowel at the end of words because that's how their langaueg structure works. ie; apart-UH. nice-UH.
other numbers. 100,000 to them is 10 X 10,000. To us it's 100 X 1,000, etc.
pish vs fish.
pisa vs pizza.

[Saxiif]

Large numbers in general, many Koreans think that 100,000,000 is a billion etc.

[RACETRAITOR]

"How about" as in "How about your weekend?" rather than "How about we get some coffee?"

Pronouncing Konglish words the Korean way: "sa-woo-na" rather than "sauna" or "audio" like "odio." Other examples are limocon, apatu, otobai.

"House" vs "home." An apartment is not a house.

Confusing gender pronouns. Probably the most dangerous unintentional mistake you can make with English.

Confusing the parts of an English name, such as calling me Mr Jon.

"My thinking" rather than "I think."

I don't think that "everyday" vs "every day" is worth mentioning if you're just correcting speech. It would take quite an ear to hear that space.

[RACETRAITOR]

[waynehead]

Articles

My/I

Pronunciation of: Z/J/Ch L/R B/V Th/S

Correct usage of "have" and "has" as in: "I have gone to the bathroom" or "she has eaten already"

[Suwon23]

I had a student last week who couldn't say "see." It always came out "shee." I had a little mini-lesson to help him out, but for the life of me I could not get that little bastard to say "see."

me: "sssss"
him: "sssss"
me: "eeeee"
him: "eeee"
me: "sssss.... eeeee"
him: "sssss..... eeee"
me: "ssssseeeee"
him: "sssSHeeee"

[Hater Depot]

Plenty of good ones here.

http://wiki.galbijim.com/Transference_error

[KYC]

uh...L & R. Had that discussion with my students today for about 20 minutes lol.

Me: River
Them: Liver
Me: No, Ruh Ruh Ruh River
Them: Luh Luh Luh Liver.

[livinseoul]

My students are constantly mixing up their B's and P's or they just use B and forget about P altogether.

[cj1976]

Why do all Korean people pronounce V as "Vwee"? That I find strange. I try to correct it in class. It takes 3 or 4 repetitions before the pronounce it correctly and then they go straight back to vwee.

[PeteJB]

We have similar problems in Korean though. Such as those 사 and 싸 sounds. I can't say words starting with 싸, just sounds like 사 to Koreans. Then ofcourse we've got them ㅂ, ㅃ, ㅍ, 자, 차, ㅉ and various sounds - although the sounds associated with them are slightly more forgiving in that they are usually understood.. It's just the 싸 for me. Someone teach me 싸! I can do 쓰, 써.. But for some reason whenever I say a word such as 싸움 (싸워) or 싼 (싼 것) they hear 사.