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insamsaram
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 Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:55 pm Post subject: ���� ������ : big city life vs. town/island life |
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I'm wondering how different speech is in various places. For example, some Korean friends here in the US claim that they can hardly understand people from Cheju (of course, many of them have never been outside Seoul when it comes to Korea). I want to learn "standard" Korean speech so I figured Seoul is the most likely and convenient place with all its universities/programs etc....
But, then when I think about life and living and loving....chillin' at the beach, clean air, etc...etc.... is very appealing. Any thoughts? I'm mainly talking about learning Korean well (systematically) and how feasible it would be in a town or small city environment. What about the Eastern and Southern coasts? Major dialect situation? What about medium sized cities? |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Seoul has the standard dialect for sure, but because of movies and tv it's pretty wide spread. There's not a huge variation in accents- especially relative to English, but Koreans make a big deal of them. Maybe because everything is so monot- oops homogenous here. Busan accents seem a little singsongy, Chungcheong is very slow, and the Cheju accent is fast. This is according to my old students. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| There's not a huge variation in accents- especially relative to English, but Koreans make a big deal of them |
I beg to differ.
There can be some big differences in dialects.
I can understand Seoul dialect much easier than any other(and I live in Kyeongsangnamdo) as it is a lot softer.
traditional Jejudo dialect is very different. My Korean girlfriend went there twice and had a lot of trouble with the older grandmothers and grandfathers who spoke to her.
The thing is with the younger ones it is becoming less and less distinguishable due to mass media(which predominantly comes from Seoul) which is making the dialects a lot more uniform.
Just listen to the older ones it is like they are speaking different languages though. |
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Yangkho
Joined: 22 Sep 2003
Location: Honam
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 4:42 am Post subject: |
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| Years ago Jinhae was really famous for it's dialect, but now most of the population are new comers. |
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