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Thursday, November 19, 2009

JOURNAL | The Conclusion

The Conclusion


Just as Koreans find it difficult to pronounce some English sounds of the English language, sounds of the Korean letters can be very difficult also for foreigners like me. For example, Koreans have words that have the same sound to foreigners but actually have different meanings. For example, the words ๋ฐฉ and ๋นต. They actually have the same sound but to Koreans they have distinct sounds which are just not easily detected by foreigners. When I say, ‘๋‚˜ ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์„ ๋จน์–ด์‹ถ์–ด์š”’ does not make a difference when I say ‘๋‚˜๋Š” ๋นต์„ ๋จน์–ด์‹ถ์–ด ์š”’ This makes it more difficult to pronounce since we can't distinguish the difference.



ํ•œ ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์˜์–ด ๋ฐœ์Œ์˜ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์„ ๋А๋ผ๋“ฏ์ด, ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค ๋˜ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋ฐœ์Œ์˜ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์„ ๋А๋‚๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ๋นต์„ ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ๋“ค๋ฉด, ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์— ๊ฒŒ ์ด ๋‘ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ™๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์˜๋ฏธ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ํ™•์—ฐํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฒˆ์€ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ‘๋ฐฉ์„ ๋จน๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค’๊ณ  ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ์นœ๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ ์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์›ƒ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์–ด์—๋Š” ์—†๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šด๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์ผ์ธ์ง€ ์ ˆ์‹คํžˆ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
 

Another problem is the spelling. Korean language has a thing called pachim that moves to the next word if that next word starts with a vowel. Pretty complicated especially to foreigners who aren't used to this kind of system and writing. For example, the word ‘์‚ด’ and ‘์‚ด ๋‹ค’. I just can’t distinguish which meaning it is especially when used in a sentence. Plus, Korean language has many endings attached to a word depending on what one wants to say. This approximates conjunctions and particles like ‘์€, ์—, ์— ์„œ, ๋‹˜, ๋Š”๋Œ€’ and many more.

๋˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ์ฒ ์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋Š” ๋ฐ›์นจ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ ๋˜ํ•œ ์ €์—๊ฒŒ ์•„ ์ฃผ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์–ด์—๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ธ€์ž๋“ค์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋‚˜์—ด๋˜์–ด ์ด์–ด์ ธ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด์˜ ‘์กฐ์‚ฌ’๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋…์€ ์ • ๋ง ์–ด๋ ค์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š”, ์ €๋Š”, ์ €์˜, ์ œ๊ฐ€, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€, ๋ฌด์—‡์€, ๋ฌด์—‡์—, ๋ฌด์—‡์—์„œ, ๋“ฑ… ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

In the end...


๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ €๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šด๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋‹จ์–ด๋‚˜ ํ‘œํ˜„๋“ค์„ ์™ธ์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋А๊ผˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ์ƒ๊ฐ์—๋Š” ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ์–ธ์–ด ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šด๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์„ ์™ธ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋„˜์–ด, ๊ทธ ๋‚˜๋ผ์˜ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•ด์•ผํ•  ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์–ด์—์„œ์˜ ‘I’๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ์—์„œ๋Š” ‘๋‚˜’, ๋‚˜์˜, ์ €๋Š”, ์ €์˜, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€, ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐœ๋กœ ์“ฐ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์ด์œ ์ค‘์˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์—๋Š” ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ์— ๋Œ€ ํ•ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๊ณ  ๋†’์ด๋Š”, ์˜ˆ์ ˆ๋ฌธํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์˜์–ด์˜ ‘I’์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋œป์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜ ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์–ธ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ํฐ ํ•œ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์–ธ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋น„๋ก ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค ํ•  ์ง€๋ผ๋„, ๋‚˜์™€ ๋‹ค ๋ฅธ ์„ธ์ƒ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ, ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ๊ฐ์ •๊ณผ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์–ธ์–ด๋กœ ๊ณต์œ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์— ์žˆ์–ด์„œ๋Š”, ์–ธ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ •๋ง ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ ๊ธฐ์„œ ์ œ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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