English is most popular language in the world. and then Korean is one of the most unique languages in the world. Both of them, have many common and difference. In this post I will talk about difference of these two languages.
First of all, the biggest difference is word order. For example "I read the book" is English. and word order is subject, verb and object. However, "난 책을 읽는다","Nan chak eul ilk nun da" is Korean and word order is subject, object, and verb. It is the point that most Korean people feel hard to study English.
Second, Korean language has richer expression than English. For instance, "Hot" has many meaning of in English. One is people say "hot" when they stay in the room of high temperature. and another people say "hot" when they ate spicy food. I know there are more meaning than I know.However Korean language two different words in same situation.
When people stay in the room of high temperature, they say"덥다","Dub Da". and when people eat some spicy food, they say "맵다","Mab da".
Here is another example. when I lived with the American roommate last year, I made some korean food which is called "누룽지","Nu reoung gi". My roommate want to try this food, so I gave him some. and he said "It taste weird, but wonderful weird. So I really try to say "구수하다","Gu su ha da" in english. this words is one of the taste we have. however, English has not this kind of expression. English has only simple expression. English cannot express some korean expression. For instance, when they eat salty food, they just say "its salty". but We have many expression of salty.
In conclusion, I think English is very good language, especially when I listen to american music, that rhyme was perfect to hear. However Korean is the better than English. I love English too.
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I think it's really cool how diverse all the different languages of the world are!
ReplyDeleteI thought this post was good. I think it's interesting to hear about other languages.
ReplyDeleteWow the first thing I noticed were the characters! fasinating, good post!
ReplyDeleteI will admit that i have no idea how you can possibly remember all the symbols, but its great hearing different points of view on language.
ReplyDeletesame here Oconnor, the characters were the first thing I noticed. Good post!
ReplyDeleteIt is fascinating to see the differences between the two languages!
ReplyDeleteThis is a very facinating post, it really shows the contrast between two very different languages. Definately worth the read!
ReplyDeleteThe thing is though, when you pointed out how diverse the Korean language is compared to English, there are many different words in English that work the same way. In your example, you said that "hot" meant two different things, but there's another word in English that pertains to the food ("Spicy"). Both languages can describe different things very well!
Good post! :)
ReplyDeletecongratulations good job. I like it. It's just awesome. difference between 2 languages
ReplyDeleteI like the little sentence at the end that states Korean is better :p I call foul play
ReplyDeleteThe Korean language seems interesting and difficult to learn!
ReplyDeletehahah yeah, english music is cool, but i wonder what its like to hear a korean sing screamo..
ReplyDeleteGood post. You should bring in some Korean music sometime.
ReplyDeleteI really liked your post I never new that about the Korean language.
ReplyDeleteThe differences between languages are crazy. I don't know how some people can speak more than one language well.
ReplyDeleteKorean is okay but english is better. honestly, i think german is the best language because they always sound so angry.
ReplyDeleteOther languages are definitely more expressive, but when i hear music in non european languages it always sounds kind of awkward, like the words are crammed in where they dont fit.
ReplyDeleteWOW! another great insight comparing two diverse cultures. I like how you touched on the confusing aspects of our language barriers.
ReplyDeleteVery nice post and very fascinating.
ReplyDeleteCool post. There are many differences in languages that i was unaware of.
ReplyDeleteThat's really cool. We have so many words in our language, but thier meanings are still so limited.
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