Posted on 07/11/2018 8:44:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Korean is rapidly growing in popularity, in a language-learning boom driven by the popularity of the country's pop stars.
A desire to learn the lyrics of K-Pop hits like Gangnam Style has boosted the Korean language's popularity explode in countries like the US, Canada, Thailand and Malaysia.
A report by the Modern Language Association shows that Korean uptake in US universities rose by almost 14% between 2013 and 2016, while overall language enrolment was in decline.
The latest statistics show 14,000 students are learning Korean in the US, compared to only 163 two decades earlier.
The language learning website Duolingo launched a Korean course last year because of rising demand. It quickly attracted more than 200,000 pupils....
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나는 아주 작은 한국어를 말한다
na neun a ju jag eun han gug eo reur mal han da
Which means: I speak very little Korean.
However, I actually was taught a different expression for it: Na neun han guk mal reur cho kum ham ni da.
For which a very direct translation would be: I Korean language speak very little.
Korean is not the same in construction as either Chinese or Japanese.
Although westerners see the Korean script characters as though they were the same kind of thins as the Chinese ideograms (symbols that have a meaning), they are not.
What westerners see as each Korean script character is actually a phonetic script constructed to produce a single syllable. The syllable-characters are put together by parts that each represent a phonetic sound, just like our alphabet.
However, I think for most weasterners, learning written Korean, in spite of the phonetic alphabet nature of Korean script, is harder to learn than spoken Korean.
And besides, they do a really good job providing what is needed most (Ha Ha): English subtitles for modern Korean TV dramas and movies - available all over the world and almost as popular throughout Asia as K-Pop.
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