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salanaii · 10 months

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Learn Korean with me - Part 31! – Vocab Part 7

Kind/friendly – 친절한 – chin jeol han

Lazy – 게으른- gee u reun

Happy – 행복하다- haeng bok ha da

Sad – 슬퍼- seul peo

Sick – 아픈- a peun

Boring – 지루한- ji ru han

Glad – 기쁜 - gi ppeun

Tired – 피곤한 – pi gon han

Camera – 카메라 – ka me ra

Building – 건물- geun mul

That (over there) – 저/저것 – jeo/jeo geos

I/self – 저 – jeo

Desk – 책상 – chaeg sang

These – 이 것 - I geos

That – 그 – geu

Those – 그것 – geu heos

This – 이 - i

Monitor – 모니터 – mo ni teo

Bathroom – 화장실 - hwa jang sil

Restaurant – 식당 – sig dang

That way – 그 쪽 – geu jjog

Here/ over here – 여기 – yeo gi

There – 거기 – geo gi

Over there - 저 기 – jeo gi

Tree – 니무 - na mu

Bag – 가 방 - ga bang

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royalarchivist · 4 months

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This video is only available to people who are members of Acau's ( 악어 ) Youtube, but one of his fans posted a short clip Acau shared of his and Quackity's conversation testing out the QSMP translator!

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#Acau #악어 #QSMP #Quackity #That's so cool!#I cannot speak any Korean whatsoever but I'm very curious and excited to watch him and learn #My language knowledge is English > Japanese > Spanish #which. is ironic since I'm Mexican #but some Korean words sound very similar to a few Japanese words and it always trips me up hearing them #I'm so excited to meet 악어 and his community!!! aaaaa!!!#everyone is so excited I love seeing everyone getting so excited to share information about the streamers they love #Anyways shoutout to Gaby for the heads up about this. They don't even use Tumblr but they're wonderful

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bloodpen-to-paper · 3 months

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Fun language fact: "please take care of me" is a very common phrase in Korea for when you're meeting someone knew, especially if you're under their hospitality

#my korean friends made me watch a shit ton of korean movies and I learned some things #liveblogging #mcyt #qsmp #jungryeok #language #korean

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rusquared · 4 months

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imagine reading a novel about the apocalypse and how fiction can save your life in both an ordinary and extraordinary tragedy... and two years later watching the novel wrap up in the middle of a worldwide pandemic ??????????????

#god imagine being a korean reader who followed orv from the start #that's like. that's the WORST kind of mental illness. peak orv experience i almost envy them for it #'wow im learning so much from this novel about love and survival and stories and- there's a what spreading across the globe?'#also kdj is 9 years older than me that's horrifying #orv

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dropthedemiurge · 4 months

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Love for Love's Sake | Things You Didn't Notice #4 | Fight with Homophobes

Honestly, I wanted to dissect these scenes right away but then we got the rest of the show uploaded and the emotions overshadowed me. But now we're diving into informal Korean speech, swearing and slurs! It's going to be a fun post, let's go :D

Disclaimer: I'll be writing down both English and Korean slurs strictly in educational manner, obviously.

"Fuck. You two are always so fucking close together. (to Myungha) Are you also a faggot (homosekki)? Wow, Kyunghyun's skills are so good." "Why are you so vulgar? What's wrong with being homo?" "You're really crazy. Are you criticizing me?" ... (Myungha kisses Tak Junho) " Ah fu— You damn faggot!" "We both kissed. I'm not the only one who's homo. You're homo too~" "You did it yourself, you faggot!" "Ah, our Junho keeps saying 'homo'. Tss, slurs are forbidden." "Shut up, you faggot." "If you call me homo one more time, I can steal your lips for real. (Junho is silent) Ha, afraid you'll be robbed?"

Honestly, I like the translation in subs this time, I just wanted to give you a more technical version (and to show you the difference, because in Gaga subs the f slur is also used by Myungha but it's not exactly that)

So, as far as I noticed, the slur in Korean is a derivative from the term "homosexual" - thanks to the similar sounding, it became "homosekki" (from sekki - asshole, bastard, bitch etc). This is the word Junho keeps using in almost every sentence. And the socially accepted common term is now "gay" (at least, the cast and couple from Korean reality dating show "His Man 2" refers to themselves as 'gay' and not 'homo').

Myungha uses the original term, just "homo", which also gained a negative connotation but doesn't include a 'sekki' swearword. So he keeps saying "homo" to talk back in the language Junho used, only less derogatory. We'll see later but it's amazing, because both Myungha and Sangwon confidently used this word about themselves (Sangwon even went further and proudly reclaimed the slur itself).

Still, Myungha did threaten gangster Junho not to even call him "homo" or any similar terms. And here's the moment which made me laugh: in the next scene with Sangwon, Junho was angry ranting about Myungha, but he caught himself using the slur "homosekki" and quickly changed to the modern and neutral term "gay". LOL

Which is what Gaga subs failed to show it to us. Again, let's see more technical translation:

"I'll go after Tae Myungha and Ahn Kyunghoon soon, just so you know. Those fa– Those gay bastards must die. That fucker Tae Myungha kissed me in the lips, shit. Isn't it fucked up? It was disgusting." (Sangwon, pouting) "Wow, really? It must've been nice." "Jeez, you asshole. You're not a victim so you dare talking shit." "I'm being serious, though?" (Junho, appalled) "What the hell are you talking about? You're not a faggot." "I am a faggot, though?"

One, why is it so funny that the first reaction Sangwon had, hearing about Myungha kissing someone in a fight, was: awww :( i wish it was me :((( you so lucky :((

Second, it's hilarious how the gangster ends up the ONLY person who ever uses nice and modern term "gay" once in this show because our protagonists both hit him back with the derogatory terms (Sangwon even attached the slur to himself, when he only liked girls before falling in love with Myungha at first sight, what a legend).

Let's wrap it up with slurs and check out another small detail: informal speech in Korean.

(Sangwon to Myungha)"Why would we fight here?" (Yeowoon to Sangwon)"Hey, watch your tone (don't use informal speech)" "Was I talking like that with you?" "Talk curt (informally) only with me." "I'm already being curt (talking informally) with you."

This one is definitely a cultural thing that always gets lost in translation (but "being curt" is a nice way of putting it). There are two general styles of speech in Korean: Formal (존댓말, jondemal) and Informal (반말, banmal). Of course, it's a lot more complicated in the language, but I'll paint briefly the differences that are pointed out in the scene.

I talked in previous posts about properly addressing your senior in korean (usually by title/position). To convey respect to your senior, you also use 요 (yo) at the end of the sentences – and both Sangwon and Yeowoon talk politely to Myungha. UNTIL Sangwon uses the rude version of a question, without polite ending ("Why would we fight here?"), to which Yeowoon protests and tells Sangwon that it's banmal, informal speech, and he should only use it with him.

Because with your friends, same age people (Yeowoon and Sangwon in this case) or people younger than you, it's normal to use their names with different intonations (Think Myungha's "Yeowoon-ah, Yeowoon-ie") and talk informally.

(Yeowoon to Myungha) "I asked who it was." "You're being curt (that's an informal speech)".

Fast forward – Yeowoon loses patience and demands Myungha "I asked who it was", question without polite ending as well. To which Myungha cheekily says "that was an informal speech", reminding Yeowoon of his own remark to Sangwon.

Fast forward again – and now I have to take back my previous statement from another post that Yeowoon never called Myungha by his name because I found the rare case of him doing it xD

"Tae Myungha is so frustrating." "You're speaking informally more often these days."

Again, a youngster! calling his senior! by his own name! Not using the polite ending! The horrors of informal speech. He's not being too rude but he's sulking therefore he's rebelling. Though I can swear, again, Yeowoon hears Myungha's scolding and resorts back to speaking politely, and from now on, he'll keep using 'senior'.

If you survived until the end of this post, congratulations! The second half probably wasn't needed but in case you're learning Korean or you want to know why these seemingly normal phrases are being considered "curt" out of nowhere, I hope you understand it now a little bit better :)

// Previous messages translation + other language moments here //

#love for love's sake comments #watch me writing my own course Learning Korean with Kdramas on tumblr #but that fight dialogue scene was just perfect i couldn't resist #the exchange and usage of different terms was funny and the scene was hilarious on its own #sangwon and myungha are my heroes #love for love's sake #love for love's sake meta #bl meta #korean bl #korean drama #love supremacy zone #dropthemeta #korean language #linguistics #language

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meraarts · 3 months

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English people just don’t understand. They haven’t been in the trenches. They haven’t been a socially awkward eleven year old not knowing whether they should address their musical theatre teacher with the formal you or whether that would be weirder than informal. They haven’t meticulously crafted their sentences to avoid using the second person at all costs.

Now Korean people, they know. They’ve been in the trenches. They’ve been in worse trenches. They’ve got a million levels of formality and they can’t even say one sentence without having to make the call on which to use, because they’re attached to every main verb. They are the only motherfuckers on this globe I respect.

#im sure other languages do that as well #but I only know Korean sorry #educate me tho I always love to hear about languages #language learning #langblr #language #korean #koreanblr #studyblr

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solradguy · 2 months

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Do you think one could attain decent-ish ability to read Japanese just by studying kanji? Specifically asking because the kanji learnin' service "wanikani" is the single Japanese resource that works best with my brain, but then there are separate resources for grammar and vocab and and and.....

You will get REAAAALLLLLYYY far knowing only the kanji but you're going to have to know hiragana and katakana at some point too. Tofugu, the company that did Wanikani, has two mnemonics-based guides for the kana that are basically Wanikani Lite. They're how I learned the kana and I swear by them.

Here's hiragana: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/

And katakana: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-katakana/

Hiragana are especially vital to learning kanji; you won't be able to use 99% of Japanese-English dictionaries without them. BUT they're pretty easy and the rules for using them are consistent. You won't have to remember any irregular exceptions for any of them.

I haven't tried it yet, but I've heard really good things about the Crystal Hunters manga series as a fun/low stress way to learning Japanese vocab and grammar. It eases the reader into new concepts and then repeats them throughout the chapter so you remember them. There are free vocab and study guides/lists for each chapter too. Might be worth checking out once you get some kanji and the kana under your belt? The first book is also free.

Official site: https://crystalhuntersmanga.com/

Good luck!!

#asks #Japanese takes like a bajillion hours forever to learn because of the 2200+ kanji lol...........#But it's sooooo consistent grammatically and with the spelling. I love it #Kinda spoiled me tbh. I look at English now and I'm like #'Why can't you be more like this. Why are you such a mess. Get your act together'#And then there's Korean's hangul writing system. It's SO BEAUTIFUL. Actual marvel of linguist engineering #The Japanese lexicon is also a lot smaller than English's too. Which is both a blessing and a curse #Less words = quicker to learn. BUUUUUTTTT less words that mesh well with English. Translation is hard!!!#Holy fuck. Ok so Wikipedia says that the English language has 755`865 words as recorded by Wiktionary #and Japanese has 500`000 according to Nihon Kokugo Daijiten #BUT THEN KOREAN. ACCORDING TO ONLINE DICTIONARY URIMALSAEM (open source dictionary) HAS 1`149`538 WORDS #The biggest lexicon is Tamil's with 1`516`952 unique headwords as recorded by online dictionary Sorkuvai #That's absolutely nuts #I got massively distracted. Enjoy my word vomit tags

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svtskneecaps · 20 days

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you know what i'll say it MIKE AND ROIER ARE THE ONLY ONES I RESPECT these fuckers will rock up and say FUCK english all my homies HATE english they are the only ones i trust and respect these fuckers are like you will hear me speak my language and you will LEARN IT OR DIE and i respect the HELL OUT OF IT dude THANK YOU FOR BEING ENGLISH HATERS brothers THANK YOU FOR NOT SPEAKING ONLY ENGLISH WHEN AMONG ANYONE NOT OF YOUR LANGUAGE GROUP!!!!!!!!

#qsmp #if there are others who also refuse to speak english that i didn't notice i will add them #this excludes the koreans bc they aren't strong in english so it's only half an option for them #(allegedly aren't strong i didn't see them around long enough to come to any real conclusions but i'm told they aren't strong in it)#and also hugo bc he didn't have much time on the server and some people who start out relying on the translations #will swap over to using their english however strong that might be idk his relative strength either bc like korea he wasn't online long 😔#which i also respect because i'm glad they get to practice their nonnative tongue that's cool #but the first multilingual smp with live translation becoming the 'english in a group' server gives me fits #anyway for legal reasons much of this post is hyperbole and exaggeration #but i do love how mike and roier can be consistently relied on to just Not Speak English #block game brainrot #shut up vic #bonus shoutout to foolish who often insists spanish speakers only speak spanish to him #and tries to only speak spanish in return. he's not got broad vocab just yet but for only learning via this and duolingo he's doing amazing #and i have a lot of respect for him for it #(yes i respect everyone for reasons but this post is about the ones who can and do speak Not English on purpose)#(regrettably people like bbh and phil don't count although i still respect their efforts)#ANYWAY SLASH END TAG RANT THIS POST KNOWS WHAT IT'S ABOUT DON'T FIGHT ME

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lang-learner · 1 year

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The best thing you can do for your language learning is immersion. Listen to podcasts about different topics. Listen to the same podcast more than once. While you clean your room, cook, get ready, etc. Watch or listen to YouTube videos too!!

#langblr #languages #learn languages #studyblr #trust me!!#french #italian #korean #polyglot

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j00min · 1 month

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⠀ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ (ᴗ͈˳ᴗ͈) 𓂂 🦪⁺ ⸝⸝ ⠀ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ➣ 🎓 ♡ HEYA! ⊹ ⠀ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ (ᴗ͈˳ᴗ͈) ❛ 🎀ꜝ ⸝⸝

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salanaii · 1 year

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Learn Korean with me - Part 6! Writing Practice

Practice putting consonants and vowels together.

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tokyogruel · 5 months

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one of my favorite parts of milgramblr is that people just started sharing how to speak in their native tongue and im like. ecstatic about it

#me 11 years olf watching hetalia and claiming proudly to my family that i was going to learn korean japanese french chinese etc. etc.#the list went on #they all looked at me like i was stupid but boy now that im living on my own and not losing my mind (as much)#ive taken to learning languages like a house on fire #day 300 of jpn duolingo coming up 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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eddis-not-eeddis · 4 months

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It’s nice to know that some things are NOT just social or cultural constructs and are truly indelible, no matter how hard some people try to claim that male and and female are interchangeable and how the differences between the sexes are something we made up and there’s no link to behaviors or patterns beyond what we learn in the culture we grew up in etc…

Because I texted multiple different Korean friends practically in tears about how much I hate the fact that the Korean language has two number systems.

And the GIRLS were all like, “Oh my gosh, you are SO right! It’s so dumb! I’m sorry our stupid language did this to you, if I could I’d go back in time and fight whoever is responsible for this nightmare.”

And the GUYS were all like, “Yeah, it’s annoying, but let me create a cheat sheet for you so you know which system to use in which situation, and here are a bunch of counter words that you’ll want to use and the context in which you’re going to use them.”

The Korean and American cultures are so very different, but if you go crying to a Korean girl she’s still going to try to comfort you, and if you go crying to a Korean guy he’s still going to try and solve your problems for you.

People are the same, the whole world ‘round.

#The next morning I was scrolling through my conversations #And it hit me that this is EXACTLY the same kind of reaction I’d have gotten from my American friends #XD #korean language learning

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milkbreadtoast · 5 months

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#dunmeshi liveblog #i cant wait to get to kabru so i can fully appreciate the cute korean kabrulai fanarts i keep seeing on twitte #its funny bc i wanted to read dunmesh bc of kabru and that depressed looking elf yaoi (i learned his name is mithrun)#i didnt even know kabrulai was a thing #but i saw a couple fanarts and im converted now #save me dunmeshi yuri and yaoi save meeeee

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froggyrights · 1 year

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I'm so excited for the usmp like I'll know the English creators, and probably a decent amount of the spanish ones, but that means there's still going to be 40 other creators I've never heard of or watched content of, new people to interact with my favorite creators and who knows what cool interactions and funny bits will come out of it.. its seriously so exciting I can't wait to get to know all of those new people

#im excited for german creators specifically!! i know a fair amount of german but ive neglected it a bit since highschool #it would be really fun way to learn some more again #also im excited for the korean people because i know absolutely zero korean creators or what minecraft content is even like in korea #itll be so fun to learn about #agh i am excited. the langauge nerd in me is cheering #usmp #yrsa rambles

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neo-neos · 1 year

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Pain is like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.”

― Katie Kacvinsky (The Eighth Sense 2023)

#It is 11:30 I need to be up very early #But I had to gif #Because this show makes me feral #I also fucked around with colors #The first gif is not really fitting the vibe #BUT LISTEN #I am sTILL learning #Anyway #Hope you enjoy my insanity in gif form #Good night #The eighth sense #Korean bl #여덟 번째 감각 #Im Ji Sub #Oh Jun Taek #quote #quotes #kbl #peachygifs

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