Showing posts with label Korean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Korean. Show all posts

Monday, January 11, 2010

Difference of Korean and English

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.