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@hannah-dulset
Hey I’m sorry for my sudden absense, but I’ve been dealing with some shitty personal stuff that has kind of gotten in the way of not just blogging, but studying in general.
I think things are slowly going back to normal, so I’ll be posting again soon.
I’ll be going through my missed messages and chats so please wait a little longer.
Hello everyone~ I’m Diana and I’m 16 years old ^^ I’ve been studying Korean since about January of 2017, but I’m recently taking more of an initiative to progress my studying more.
I will take on the 100 day productivity challenge in order to kind of push myself into studying everyday until it becomes habit. My study schedule will hopefully be like this:
Mondays: Grammar
Tuesdays: Vocabulary
Wednesdays: Quick Korean
Thursdays: Grammar
Fridays: Vocab
Saturdays: Quick Korean
Sundays: Talk to Me in Korean
The main use for this blog is to help me and keep all my learnings in one area for me to look back on. If I ever make any errors please correct me!
Here are some of my inspirations for this langblr ♥
@mykoreanstudy @koreangrumblings @onestopkorean @alexib224 @hansuuki @hannah-dulset @learninghangukeo @letslearnhangul @bitesizekorean @h-eonno @thekoreanexp @adventuresinkorean @study-korean and @thekimchibear
Oh man, I think this is the first time I’ve ever gotten one of these inspiration tags~ Thank you so much!
And welcome to the Korean side of langblr! Feel free to chat whenever~
The president’s ouster, after months of turmoil over a corruption scandal, is expected to shift the country’s politics to the opposition on the left.
A South Korean court ousted the president on Friday, a first in the nation’s history, rattling the delicate balance of relationships across Asia at a particularly tense time.
Her removal capped months of turmoil, as hundreds of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets, week after week, to protest a sprawling corruption scandal that shook the top echelons of business and government.
Park Geun-hye, the nation’s first female president and the daughter of the Cold War military dictator Park Chung-hee, had been an icon of the conservative establishment that joined Washington in pressing for a hard line against North Korea’s nuclear provocations.
Now, her downfall is expected to shift South Korean politics to the opposition, whose leaders want more engagement with North Korea and are wary of a major confrontation in the region. They say they will re-examine the country’s joint strategy on North Korea with the United States and defuse tensions with China, which has sounded alarms about the growing American military footprint in Asia.
Untranslatability and Language Death
Within pseudo-linguistics, the misconception that some languages have words so unique to themselves that they are untranslatable, is as common as a ‘latte’ in a Starbucks. Articles on the extra-ordinarily peculiarity of words from a vast array of languages, shown off as exhibitions in a curiosity cabinet, are presented as linguistics, when in reality they are to linguistics what the Bible is to an atheist.
Next to four, or forty, no let’s say 54958 and ¾ Inuit words for snow, a word like ‘l’ésprit d’éscalier’, so uniquely French that it presumably is not found in English – staircase wit – seems to be a favourite one in these texts. The problem here is that articles dealing with words like the aforementioned ones are sadly read and accepted as true by the vast majority of humans, and yet, the paradoxical in claiming that a world is untranslatable seems to evade most of these people’s minds.
The main problem here however is not a naïve but harmless fascination with linguistic diversity, but rather the ways in which this naïve fascination has been turned into a less cute ideology of linguistic evolution, which in turn has been adopted by a number of colonial powers throughout history in order to facilitate the expansion of a number of colonial languages. This happened in China, where Mandarin through the use of a common script became the accepted standard language in China, and this happened even more visibly throughout the British Empire, where a false belief that certain languages did not have the capacity to express certain ideas helped English become the global monster it is today.
Untranslatability however is of course a myth; while a specific language may have a more efficient way of expressing a specific thing, this does not mean that another language cannot understand or perceive the same thing. At the same time however, this dismissal of linguistic evolution has in similar ways been used to support colonial powers linguistic expansion. The argument being that if every language is inherently capable of expressing every human experience, then the attempts to save an endangered language seems ridiculous. And indeed, many people argue that language revitalisation programmes constitute a waste of money, precisely because of the fact that they mean that it does not matter what language one speaks, as long as one speaks.
Or to paraphrase Shakespeare, a rose is a rose no matter what name it is given.
The main fault here however is to mistake language revitalisation for a wish to keep a dying language alive against better knowledge, when what language revitalisation really is, is a way to make sure that human knowledge embedded in a culture’s collective memory is not lost forever. Moreover, when people state that an endangered language cannot possibly be modern enough to express modern concepts, they mistake language for something which, like human society, follows basic ideas of hierarchies. While colonialism and class has created an idea of certain languages as less suitable for human interaction then others – an idea as old as language itself, think of Ancient Greek who gave us the word barbarians, from βαρβαρος, i.e. someone who can’t speak proper Greek – it is important to realise that no language is better suited than another to express a certain idea. Ayoreo-Totobiegosode, a language spoken by some 340 people in Paraguay is as capable of adapting to changing circumstances as say English.
No language is inherently weaker than another language, and to believe that e.g. English is more suitable for scientific debates than say a near-extinct language in the Great Western Australian Desert is to misunderstand the way language functions in the first place. A language creates words for new phenomena whenever it needs a word to describe a new thing, and this ability to invent new words is inbuilt in all human languages.
While it is foolish to talk of the Gaelic word cianalas as untranslatable, or to deem another language as inferior for not having a one-word translation of the same, the existence of the word does say things about the ways in which the Gaelic culture has chosen to interact with the world. In other words, to quote Nettle, ‘the vocabulary of a language is an inventory of the items a culture talks about and has categorized in order to make sense of the world and survive in a local ecosystem’. Thus, whenever a language dies, an entire wealth of knowledge relating to a specific area of expertise is lost, be it marine life as with many Oceanic languages, or snow as is the case among many reindeer herding tribes such as the Evenk and the Saami.
Let me give you a couple of examples to demonstrate what I mean by cultural linguistic diversity; in English, if I were to say ‘Iàin killed his wife’, most native speakers would assume that Iàin was an evil man who killed the woman he had married, but the truth is that the use of his in this sentence is ambiguous. Technically his wife could have referred to another man’s wife, say Sean’s wife, as his is used to refer to both his – someone else, and his – his own. In Swedish however, this ambiguity is avoided by the use of two different words; when referring back to one’s own possessions, or in this case one’s own wife, the word sin is used, whereas someone talking about something belonging to another man – his – would use the word hans. Swedish cultural practice has in other words seen it important enough to create a word to describe this difference.
Similarly, where Finnish does not bother to distinguish between gendered pronouns, and the word hän is used to refer to both males and females, English on the other hand uses three gendered pronouns, i.e. he, she and it.
In Japanese, counting becomes a veritable task, as the make-up of an object is essential for the speaker to decide what count-word to use, whereas several other languages deems it impractical to have any count-words for numbers above say five.
The only thing these examples show however, is that human existence is a diverse thing, and that given time, the inherent wish to communicate will create ways of talking about culture specific things in very efficient and incredibly detailed ways. That a Gael is ‘in his teacher’ if he is a teacher (tha e na thìdsear), whereas an English-speaker simply is a teacher does not mean that Gaelic is in any ways more or less peculiar than English. That the Hawai’ian language has ways of distinguishing possession depending on whether a thing is alienably or inalienably possessed, whereas Gaelic on the other hand does not have a verb to express possession does not in any way prove that a language can have untranslatable words or concepts, it merely shows that the culture in which a language is spoken has deemed it important to create linguistic definitions for some very culture specific things.
I feel like this needs to be reblogged again.
when i talk passionately about how the “untranslatable words” stuff is nonsense, this is why. it’s not because i’m trying to ruin everyone’s fun (i’ve been occused of this), but because the concept is rooted in harmful (and potentially oppressive) misconceptions about language.
Would people be interested
(image for typohan.tumblr.com)
In a font folder/links to free 한글 fonts in my masterlist/as a separate post?
I know due to the shear amount of work it takes to make a hangul font compared to an English font is crazy (seriously look it up) it can be hard to find decent free fonts. So for my own use I’ve slowly been compiling fonts and websites that have more than just nanum fonts.
So is this something people would be interested in?
We are korean-net, a new Korean study network!
This is a place to find new blogs, friends and study buddies.
Members can join a network group chat on LINE. We practice Korean, encourage each other, and of course, talk about k-pop together:)
The network is open to everyone, regardless of skill level! We accept complete beginners, experts, and everyone in between. The only requirement is an interest in learning Korean.
How to apply:
Reblog this post, follow the network and fill out this application.
There’s a new Korean study network opening, so for those looking for active networks to join this may be an option you might like~
'(으)려던 참이다'는 동작동사에 붙어 말하는 사람이 어떤 일을 하려고 생각하고 있었음 나타낼 때 사용한다.
'다가 보니까' is used to express the fact that, not only had the speaker been intending to do what the speaker suggesting/referring to, but was about to/intending to do the action very soon.
Can not be used with future tense, propositive, or imperative sentences.
참이다 is used when the action was going to at that (almost) very moment. 참이었다 is used when there had been the intention to do the action for a time, or if the planned action was completed by another, and as a result does not need to be done again by the speaker.
너무 더워서 문을 좀 열었어. 나 고마워. 안 그래도 문을 열려던 참이었어. It’s too hot, so I opened the dorr a bit. Ah thanks. If you hadn’t I was going to open the door.
Is often used with 지금/막/마침/지금 막/안 그래도/그렇지 않아도 to emphasize that it was something the speaker was intending to do.
참에 is the form used as a clause connector. Action/subject can be different
가족들이 모여 저녁을 먹으려던 참에 큰 아버지께 전화가 왔다. As my family gathered and was about to have dinner, my uncle called.
원고지 Download
I’m not sure if it’s available in other versions of Microsoft Word, but recently they added a 원고지 format in the Korean version. It’s only available in red but 한글 has black and green. You can practice your Korean and Japanese (since I saw that they also use 원고지) writing, especially if you’re practicing for TOPIK 쓰기. All are 400자.
Links
[Red - Vertical] [Red - Horizontal] [Black - V] [Green - V]
Guys, I have often talked about how much I love 원고지 (ironically for anything but Korean), and here’s how to get some if you don’t have access to a store that sells it! I personally find it great for writing Chinese characters nice and neatly :)
Yay! Finally, I’m doing it! I hit 3000 followers 2 months ago and been wanting to do a giveaway to say thank you, not only for following me but also for being so sweet and nice <33
There will be 3 winners.
Beginner
Korean Grammar In Use Beginning
1 바른 생활 Vintage notebook
2 원고지
Intermediate
Korean Grammar In Use Intermediate
1 바른 생활 Vintage notebook
2 원고지
Advanced
Korean Grammar In Use Advanced
1 바른 생활 Vintage notebook
2 원고지
Disclaimer: The books are second-hand. Some may have scribbles or highlights on them but all of them are in good condition.
Rules
You must be following me
You should be willing to give me your address or if you’re a minor, please ask your parents for permission first^^
Reblog this with the reason why you’re studying Korean, and which level of KGIU you would like to get.
Likes won’t count^^
If you are reblogging from a sideblog, please let me know^^
Please don’t spam. 5 reblogs max^^
Giveaway will end on MARCH 26. Winners will be picked according to their reason why they’re studying Korean. Thank you and Good luck!!
지니 is doing a super great giveaway with one of my favorite Korean textbook series! You definitely should give it a shot~
Making hanji: Korean papermaking by Shin Hyun Se
Hanji, Korean paper, has a long but often overlooked tradition. This high-quality paper is made from the inner bark of the dak (mulberry) tree, in the countryside where the water supply is clean and abundant. There are many, many stages of papermaking. This video was shot on August 6, 2008 on a site visit to a traditional papermaker who supplies FIDES International with conservation-grade hanji. He has been making paper since he was a teenager, and his is the only surviving mill in a rural village where papermaking used to be plentiful
I just started Korean Grammar in Use, and what exactly is "descriptive form"? They mentioned it in the 이다 ("The formal descriptive form is 입니다") Is it kind of just like answer form?
Oh man I’m not sure how long this has been inbox, I’m sorry ㅠㅠ
Descriptive form is a slightlly confusing way for them to word it (but i’m sure they chose to use it because 이다 is a special copula) but for most verbs you’d hear “declarative form” used. It means the sentence is a statement/answer. (As opposed to say “interrogative form” for questions, or like “imperative form” for like commands.)
Help meeee
Does someone know html/how to work tumblr better than me? (that wouldn’t be difficult. I know nothing about this stuff) I’ve tried to fix my stupid masterpost like three times now and despite all the link being added and active, they still don’t work in the published post ㅠㅠ I don’t know what I’m doing wrongggg. Anyone willing to take a peek at the html and help a sister out?
hey! just wanted thank you so much for all the effort you put into the master post! also, I have that same problem too! I can't click through to the links on your blog with your updated post. If the anon is desperate, they could just look through the notes and look at the master post through someone else's blog to get access to the links from the original post (doesn't include the updated resources but i hope it helps a little)! anyways, you have no idea how much you've helped me I LOVE U
Yeah tumblr just likes to make life difficult sometimes. And yeah I’ve seen the original post getting reblogged again, so that is a source for a lot of the links until I get it all fixed tomorrow.
And thanks so much for the kind words~ I’m glad it’s all helpful! That definitely helps the salt levels I feel currently haha
ughhhh
Well it looks like I’m going to have to redo all the links in my masterpost, which is super annoying and I’m a little salty about it.
But it’s almost 4am here, and that’s going to take forever, so I’ll fix it in the morning so I don’t end up falling asleep on my mac.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but I’ll have it fixed soon~
sorry to bother you with this but I have a question about your reblog of the Huge Korean Masterpost. Is it supposed to have links or is it just a list of resources you use and would like to recommend? You mentioned download links but for me, there are no links to anything in the post. ^^;;
Oh dang that's super annoying and unfortunate. I think it must be my new theme, because all the links are still active. Guess my cute new theme won't work after all ㅠㅠ Give me a few minutes to fix my theme and it should all be working again
Hello all~ I recently hit a personally milestone of 500 followers on this blog, and want to do a little giveaway to say thank you!
There will be 3 winners:
1 winner will get:
3 mildliners of their choice and coordinating pens
1 원고지 notebook (looks may vary but will be from 10x10 or artbox)
1 lined notebook (looks may vary but will be from 10x10 or artbox)
1 winner will get:
3 mildliners of their choice and coordinating pens
2 원고지 notebooks (looks may vary but will be from 10x10 or artbox)
2 lined notebooks (looks may vary but will be from 10x10 or artbox)
or
A Korean textbook of their choice (must be available in Korea and under 30 USD)
1 winner will get:
3 mildliners of their choice and coordinating pens
1 원고지 notebook (looks may vary but will be from 10x10 or artbox)
1 lined notebook (looks may vary but will be from 10x10 or artbox)
A Korean textbook of their choice (must be available in Korea and under 30 USD)
The rules to enter are simple. All I ask is:
You be following me
You be 18 or older -or- have parents cool with you giving me your shipping address.
Reblog this with why you’re studying Korean, and which book you’d like if you get, if you have one in mind. Just likes won’t count.
If you reblog from a sideblog (which a lot of people have for their langblrs) please let me know what your main blog you’re following from is (in the reblog, ask, message, whatev)
Please don’t spam. I’ll say like 5 reblogs max.
This giveaway will run through Feb. 22nd 11:59pm KST and winners will be drawn by RNG. Good luck and thank you once again~
And we have ended! I pulled all valid entries from the notes, and will put them in the RNG on Sunday when I’m back at my place.
I will privately message the winners, and if they don’t respond by Wednesday, another winner will be drawn.
Thanks to all that participated, and thanks again for following my little langblr!
충사/Mushishi Vocabulary
부드러운 뿔- Soft Horns
앓다- be ill/sick/suffer from/afflicted by
서식하다- inhabit
둥지- nest
이동하다- migrate
껍질- shell/husk/bark/rind/peel
흩뿌리다- sprinkle/scatter about
*중얼*- (sfx) mutter/murmur/mumble
속닥거리다- whisper
무음- silence
드물다- rare/unusual
밀려들다- crowd/surge/flood/stampede
소진하다- exhausted
쇠약사하다- weak/feeble/infirm
조우- encounter
따위- and what not/and such
속삭임- whisper
미비하다- inadequate/incomplete
어마어마하다- colossal/immense
음량- volume (sound)
메아리- echo
호응하다- respond (to)
정적- silence/hush/stillness
흉내내다- imitate/mimic/copy
비쩍 마르다- skinny/scrawny/waif
임종- death(bed)
기묘하다- peculiar/odd/strange
예견하다- predict/foresee
곱씹다- brood/dwell (on/over)
괜히- in vain/uselessly/needlessly/for nothing
고요하다- hushed/still/silent
가만히- still/motionlessly
귀를 기울이다- listen carefully/keep one’s ears open
*슈루룩*- (sfx) slither
말하자면- as it were/so to speak
용암- lava
단절하다- sever/cut off (ties)
