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What is your level of fluency in the Korean Language?

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What is your level of fluency in the Korean Language?

I read/understand it fluently!

11%

[ 2 ]

I can read it enough to get the most subtitles

[ 0 ]

I can only listen, but cannot read

[ 1 ]

I can barely read/understand the language.

17%

[ 3 ]

Hangul? Nani sore?!!! (what's that?!!!)

64%

[ 11 ]

Total Votes : 17

niko2x

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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject: What is your level of fluency in the Korean Language?

Hi all! I just want to get an idea about some of the korean speaking members of jdorama. nothing scientific, just a simple poll. (hows that sound lillis? ) _________________ Here's my Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/kwan1?ref=profile

KouSeiya315

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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:46 pm Post subject:

O__o;; I almost picked the bottom one, but I know what hangul is I can't speak Korean, nor can I read it. But I can recognize the language when it's spoken because I know what it sounds like. I know maybe...10 words? It seems like a language that's too hard for me, but I don't think I have enough space in my brain or enough motivation to try and learn

Ushiroyubi

Joined: 15 Jan 2004
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:53 pm Post subject:

I'd love to learn Korean. _________________

leesun

Joined: 13 Jul 2003
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject:

It "sounds" hard I think. I'm referring to pronunciation, seems really difficult to speak it... Then again, I won;t learn another language at my age now

ahochaude

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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:16 am Post subject:

NO Idea whatsoever. No interest either. _________________

eltinator

Joined: 15 Nov 2003
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:41 am Post subject:

One time my korean friends told me how to say "hi" in korean but it ended up being "I'm stupid"

ahochaude

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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:43 am Post subject:

eltinator wrote:

One time my korean friends told me how to say "hi" in korean but it ended up being "I'm stupid" Beaten

Not far from the truth, huh?! Bleah

J/K! *LOL* hehe

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eltinator

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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:45 am Post subject:

ahochaude wrote:

Not far from the truth, huh?! Bleah

J/K! *LOL* hehe

LOL, the sad thing is I still remember it. I think it goes something like, "nan babo ya" hehe

But my friend was hawt so I took her word for it:P

lilis

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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:37 am Post subject: it's not that difficult..;

It's actually easier to learn than Japanese.

lilis

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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:39 am Post subject: haha;

eltinator wrote:

LOL, the sad thing is I still remember it. I think it goes something like, "nan babo ya" hehe

But my friend was hawt so I took her word for it:P

Your friend pulled a joke on you, I guess. Sweat

"nan babo ya" means, " I'm stupid " .. Sweat

See how easy it is to learn? hehe

KouSeiya315

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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:22 am Post subject: Re: it's not that difficult..;

lilis wrote:

It's actually easier to learn than Japanese. hehe

LOL, I feel the opposite way although my Japanese sucks anyway, I still absorb it better than Korean. Well, not like I tried much to learn any Korean, but still hehe

When looking at hangul charts, I'm still overwhelmed. They just won't stick in my head although it's all phonetic. Plus, there're some that are pronounced differently depending on whether it comes in front of the word or at the end, like I was told "g" is "guh" in the first position while it's "kuh" in the final position. I'm no good at remembering that kinda stuff Beaten

The pronunciation seems so difficult Sweat

Also, I think a lot of the other things they share with Japanese are a bit more difficult to remember in Korean. For example, the particles Google

We have the topic and subject marker like Japanese does, but Korean has two for each, depending on whether the previous word ends with a consonant or not, right? Crazy

Then for other particles, I don't even know Nut

I don't plan on taking Korean lessons or anything, I'd rather progress in Japanese more. But, I'm interested in simple things like sentence structure, verbs and conjugations, simple phrases, variance of speech styles (informal, formal, "guy"), and etc...

lovelessemotion

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Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 10:17 am Post subject:

eltinator wrote:

LOL, the sad thing is I still remember it. I think it goes something like, "nan babo ya" hehe

But my friend was hawt so I took her word for it:P

that'll teach ya..hahaha.. jk.. lol

surprisingly my korean is better than my japanese (i still can't read it only understand it when spoken..) .... i think it is a bit easier to learn

i mean japanese sounds 'riggid' ��-��-��-�Ƃ� chinese is a kind of 'flowing' very subttle �䈤�� ... and finaly korean is kind of a mix between these two 자매 좋은- 아-침

valle

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Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:11 am Post subject:

eltinator wrote:

One time my korean friends told me how to say "hi" in korean but it ended up being "I'm stupid" Beaten

annyong haseyo = I`m stupid? Bleah

Hoshi

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Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject:

I know nuts about korean... What's hangul btw? The only korean word I know is 'sarang'... because I used to listen to 93.3's Happening (although not now anymore... it kinda suck) and the korean songs they played are filled with this word. And the DJ confirmed my suspicion when she explained the meaning of that word...

eltinator

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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:33 am Post subject: Re: haha;

lilis wrote:

Your friend pulled a joke on you, I guess. Sweat

"nan babo ya" means, " I'm stupid " .. Sweat

See how easy it is to learn? hehe

hahaha yea I figured that one out myself Bleah

ahochaude

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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:19 pm Post subject:

lovelessemotion wrote:

that'll teach ya..hahaha.. jk.. lol

surprisingly my korean is better than my japanese (i still can't read it only understand it when spoken..) .... i think it is a bit easier to learn

Had no idea you were good in Korean........
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lovelessemotion

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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:47 am Post subject:

.. i had no idea u were male.... so i guess that kinda makes us even no? >.<

ahochaude

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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:36 am Post subject:

lovelessemotion wrote:

.. i had no idea u were male.... so i guess that kinda makes us even no? >.<

If you're looking to get into it with me again, I welcome you to. Big Grin

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eltinator

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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:09 am Post subject:

ahochaude wrote:

If you're looking to get into it with me again, I welcome you to. Big Grin

oh my...

ahochaude

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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:16 am Post subject:

eltinator wrote:

oh my...

It was uncalled for.
What I said wasn't even a diss. I just didn't know that he knew Korean.
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