The Korean language! Learn it, practice it, ask about it...

[~*Suzi*~]

ahh i would love to learn korean seems like a beautiful language i already learnt some through dramas, films and songs but im learning mandarin and thats confusing me so may start learning korean lol

[MrsFinny]

I wanna learn some korean, cuz where I live, all the asian people are korean...
But for some reason, I can't register anything korean...
When I hear it, it confuses me.
When I see it, I get even more confused.
And when I try to say it, it sounds bad!
Maybe with this, I'll learn something ^__^

[BuNnIeMomiJi]

i wanna learn korean, but there's no any asian classes in my school -_-
i find korean so much harder to pronoun then japanese >_> In the future i will definitely take korean classes.......if there's any ...

[Entourage]

Im learning and theres no korean people around me, Im basically the isolated half asian in the whole town -party-

So Really i rely on the internet alot. >_>

[felinius]

Originally Posted by BuNnIeMomiJi

i wanna learn korean, but there's no any asian classes in my school -_-
i find korean so much harder to pronoun then japanese >_> In the future i will definitely take korean classes.......if there's any ...

Korean IS much harder to pronounce... :F lol... not many places offer Korean classes. I went to a privately owned Korean school [all Korean except for a few white ppl, lol, it was funny] and it was a waste of $$.

UW and UCLA offer Korean classes but those are the only places I know of.

[Entourage]

^_^

I found out that my friend has been hiding a Korean Exchange student named ANDY in his basement. D:< I met him and i was look at his grade 5 books.. I couldn'
t read a single word he had to help me >_>

[Lilu]

My grandma is Korean and I would soo love to surprise her and have a conversation with her in korean. I'm going to use the links to try and learn it! Ooh, I do have a question for you lovely scholars. How would you spell my name in korean? If you know. It's Shante'. And pronounced Shawn-tay. :]

[Caitlin]

Originally Posted by Lilu

My grandma is Korean and I would soo love to surprise her and have a conversation with her in korean. I'm going to use the links to try and learn it! Ooh, I do have a question for you lovely scholars. How would you spell my name in korean? If you know. It's Shante'. And pronounced Shawn-tay. :]

I'd probably write your name as 샨태

Writing names from English to Korean can often have many different possibilities though, for example I asked some Koreans how I'd write my name, Caitlin, and 케이틀린 was the most common answer, so I stuck with that, but then recently when I started my Korean class, the teacher wrote my name on the board as 캐틀린, so now I use that. ^^

[Lilu]

Thanks! I'll stick with that for now.. hm.. I should really find that out and maybe I'll get it as a tattoo.. Ooooh..

[felinius]

Originally Posted by Caitlin

I'd probably write your name as 샨태

Writing names from English to Korean can often have many different possibilities though, for example I asked some Koreans how I'd write my name, Caitlin, and 케이틀린 was the most common answer, so I stuck with that, but then recently when I started my Korean class, the teacher wrote my name on the board as 캐틀린, so now I use that. ^^

Syantae? I would probably write, "산테" just to make it easier [San-te], just like what your teacher did. Writing more letters than needed is so unnecessary.

[Lilu]

Originally Posted by felinius

Syantae? I would probably write, "산테" just to make it easier [San-te], just like what your teacher did. Writing more letters than needed is so unnecessary.

San-te. They don't have 'sh'? Now that I think about it- I think that's how my grandma says me name san-te. Haha. Thanks for letting us know, I need different opinions!

[felinius]

Originally Posted by Lilu

San-te. They don't have 'sh'? Now that I think about it- I think that's how my grandma says me name san-te. Haha. Thanks for letting us know, I need different opinions!

Nope... Korean is a very simplistic writing system. If it was Japanese, I could write you "Shante" very easily though, lol.

[Entourage]

They have a Sh.

But mostly only whne ever an S is followed by an I

so s+i=shi or ㅅ+ㅣ=시(shi) But it's not romanized that way is it?

[Caitlin]

^ It's also pronounced as 'sh' when it's followed by a 'y' vowel, like ㅑㅕㅛㅠ etc, the logic there being that 'y' vowels are a bit like 이 and the main part of the vowel put together. 이 + 아, 이 + 어, etc, when pronounced quickly, would be 야 and 여, just basically contracted. Hope that paragraph wasn't too confusing. x]

Anyway, for example, the verb 'to shower' is not written as 샤워하다 just to have more letters, it's so that it will be pronounced as 'sha-wuh' rather than 'sa-wuh' which would otherwise be 사워하다. That's why I figured her name would be 샨태 because I'd want to keep the 'sh' in my name. So it woudn't be pronunced syantae, it'd be sh[y]antae, the 'y' being in brackets because I notice it's not even really pronounced when it follows ㅅ, as in 샤워하다. Ehehe, just my reasoning. ^^

[felinius]

Originally Posted by Entourage

They have a Sh.

But mostly only whne ever an S is followed by an I

so s+i=shi or ㅅ+ㅣ=시(shi) But it's not romanized that way is it?

I wouldn't consider it "sh"... it's more like a "C" sound when you say it, "see." And the two S's are pronounced with a more harder s sound.

no, it's not romanized as "Shi" because it's literally impossible in the Korean alphabet to have two different consonants together in one block.

[Shin-bi]

waahahahahaaaa happy munkis!

lol(sorry asia jam... cake kicked in)

[Shin-bi]

Ah!!!

I want to teach in korea

I'm only 15 (as of today.... yay me! and im on my new laptop.... )

back on topic!!

So lots of time to study until the big move~

But um, yeah I know it well^^

Went through pimsleur and now im saving for this $350 kit thinga-muh-bob that has books and things (also by pimsleur) that'll be available in Sept.

Ooh! One more of topic-thing
The korean family that owns a beauty supply store down the streetfrom me were yattayatta-ing about me and my mum and I answered them back THE LOOK ON THEIR FACES WAS CLASSIC!!!!!

wahahahaaa "justice is done" (oh-so stolen from the manga "Othello")

[Dutchie]

I found this on youtube.. In my opinion a very good explanation!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq4S7M9rJbg# there are lots more of these and also a very old TV serie to teach Korean.. this one let's learn Korean

[Dutchie]

my birthday was just a few days ago and I got the best gift ever from my parents.. it's a CD so I can learn Korean!! never expected to get that.. so I was really suprised but I'm very glad I got it.. now I can improve my korean

[Caitlin]

^ I have one of those too!! I never got very far using it though.. Haha. But mine is "Mastering Korean."