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amaskforophelia

Moving today!

Jun 30, 2009 09:23

Getting out of the apartment for real today. Most of my stuff is at home, but now I have to get the furniture and the remaining things, like my food and the like. Then we have to clean the fridge and do some other things. Ewww. (Mostly Ewww because the Freezer doesn't really work so it's going to be hideous to clean ( Read more... )

languages, korean language

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teaberryblue June 30 2009, 14:39:56 UTC

English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Mandarin, and Welsh? I think that's it. I had to think about it for a while though. Once you know it in one Romance language you kind of know it in all of them. Oh, and German, except my German pronunciation sucks. I know it in Latin too but I don't think that counts since nobody alive speaks it conversationally.

amaskforophelia June 30 2009, 16:47:23 UTC

Catalan! I can't remember where that's spoken... Barcelona?

I was also waiting for someone to say Portuguese. Dunno why.

teaberryblue June 30 2009, 17:38:47 UTC

Catalan and Portuguese are almost the same as Spanish, at least for that! It's Com esta in Catalan and Como esta in Portuguese.

And yes, Catalan is spoken in Barcelona! It's also spoken in parts of France and Italy and in Andorra. I have an LJ friend who has been studying Catalan, which is the only reason I know anything about it!

hangul_kodou July 1 2009, 04:04:03 UTC

Kiddahn? Punjabi (I'm not going to attempt to write this in Punjabi script XD)
Kahse hahn? Hindi
お元気ですか？ Japanese (Ogenki Desu ka)
어떻게 지내세요? Korean (Eoddeoge jineseyo)
Comment ça va? French

amaskforophelia July 1 2009, 05:09:44 UTC

I need to learn it in Korean! How is it pronounced?

hangul_kodou July 2 2009, 00:16:08 UTC

Well, these letters: 어 and 으 aren't really used, or separate, in English. 어 sounds kind of like the "ow" in "cow". Except, instead of pronouncing it as "ow", pronounce it as "ohw". Sort of like the "aw" in "lawn".

So 어떻게 지내세요 is pronounced as

"Ohw- dohw-geh" (게 is pronounced as GEH instead of KEH because there is a ㅎ at the end of the last syllable) "jee-neh-seh-yoh".

Or you can just listen to it here: http://www.langintro.com/kintro/bphrases/greet.htm

amaskforophelia July 2 2009, 00:49:57 UTC

Cool! I've been going through that website, so I'll get there soon! Thanks!