"동서남북"
Translation:East, west, south, north
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동 is east, 서 is west, 남 is south, 북 is north. why East, west, south, and north is wrong? Is there an idiom in America?
Haha actually yes we say north south east west in that order but it's very odd that "east, west, south, north" would be wrong. I've answered it like that and was correct. Hopefully it'll get fixed.
Not sure which part of America you're from, but I'm from America too (California) and we say North East South West.
From eastern US and I'd say we use the same, but i realized that when I wrote this in my notes for vocab to study, I wrote "north, west, east, south" though I don't think I've ever said it that way
I'm from wisconsin and my art teacher says never eat soggy waffles, so yeah, it's North East South West.
I've tried looking briefly and haven't found anything to suggest there is a set idiomatic order in the English. Do you have a source to support the idea that most common is NSEW? Most common order I saw was NESW, that is starting with north and running clockwise around the compass. IMHO, since English appears to lack the same idiom, the course should either accept any order of the cardinal directions or require a translation of the Korean order.
Since we're trying to learn Korean here, I don't see why they would mix up word order to fit some US speaking habit. For one, many people here aren't from the USA so we won't have the same order in mind, and secondly translating in different order will only confuse anyone who's seeing Korean translation for the first time. How are we supposed to figure out which word means which side of the world if you randomly switch the order in English, Duo?
I've lived in the Midwest, the South and on the East Coast (of America) and I've never heard anyone say north, east, south, west only north, south, east, west. It's very interesting to find out people say north, east, south, west. Thank you for the knowledge.
I'm from the Midwest and I too have only ever heard North, South, East, West. I had no idea others in America used any other order, haha.
In the Netherlands we also say "noord, oost, zuid, west" meaning "north, east, south, west"
Huh. In English I've always heard north-south-east-west, and in Chinese we say east-south-west-north. Now it's east-west-south-north? So confused...
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It depends how you remember it. If you use the mnemonic "Never Eat Soggy Weiners" as we were taught in school then it goes NESW, others use NSEW as in "from north to south and east to west", the order daylight arrives in the summer, or NEWS, say, for what it spells out.
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I was taught that too, but there was a kid in the class who's initals were S.W., so we would just put his name in instead of Soggy Waffles
Never eat shredded wheat (a tasteless breakfast cereal) for me to learn which is which going clockwise, but North, South, East and West when spoken or written in the UK.
I was taught the NEWS mnemonic, but that was a really, really long time ago.
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In Bulgarian we usually say "изток, запад, север, юг", but there is no rule that the directions always have to be repeated in that order. Apparently there's no single rule for English either. So if you want to teach us that Koreans have a fixed order for the directions please do, but do not confuse us by changing the order in English.
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There are a variety of possible combinations depending where one comes from. Best to stick to the literal translation.
"North, south, east, west" is present in pop-up hint, but marked as "wrong"...
I live in southeastern Ontario Canada. Always said north south east west- mom/dad were avid hikers/campers. Easiest to say your back is north because you hold the compass at your bellybutton facing south. East is your left and west is your right. How I taught my kids and grandkids to use a compass.
Timur ke barat, selatan ke utara (East to west, south to north)
That's similar to an Indonesian pop song lol
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Yes. "Everywhere; all directions; all sides ...(at virtually the same time)", but it is used more in the sense of "far and wide; all four corners (globally/nationally); widespread".