"서울 아파트"
Translation:Seoul apartment
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"Apateu" is a Korean interpretation of the Japanese shortening of the English word "Apartment". In Japanese it's roughly "apato".
It's a double loanword (English → Japanese → Korean) to the point that it doesn't sound at all familiar to native English speakers. Without actually being taught it's meant to mean apartment, and with the direct transliteration being considered "wrong"—Maybe this particular one should be re-thought.
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As a French, it's easy to recognize, because we often say "apparte" short for "appartement".
This absolutely needs to go. Since we've never been previously exposed to it, placing it next to the word "party" is just unfair, as "apato"sounds closer to "party" than it does to "apartment."
Hi guys. I'm korean. If you abroad to korea. You don't need learn Korean. Because many korean peaple are learned English. and many English information is in the Sign, and korea have many US brand (macdonald and bugger king and..~~) But some korean are not kind. And not Come on. It's korea's ploblem. It's very sorry for you. Good luck.
thanku, but i m learning it so that i can increase my language knowledge and who knows may be someday I'll visit korea then it will be fun to speak in local language
I really fell for this language bcs it's a nice language.. so i want to learn it and I think there will be some koreans who are kind so i still look forward
I am learning to increase my knowledge, and also so I can look away from a show and still know what is happening (not rely on captions), and to understand lyrics. :)
Yes but it is very polite to try and attempt speaking in the language koreans are familiar with. No?
dowa juseyo 도와 주세요 means Help Me! ihaeka andoeyo 이해가 아뇌요 means I Don't Understand
I taught English in Korea for several years; most people are very kind and welcoming, but there are some real stinkers too. There is much I miss about your country.
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I suggest making a distinction between translation and transliteration exercises. Using "Write this in English" for both is confusing.
Oh no no! it's not like that....... it's pronounced like a-par-te (r is silent). But your comment looked so cute.
A lot of the words like dragon and united are very sinilar ti english. Why is that?
Koreans uses too many English words to sound fancy just like English speakers use French words to sound fancy.
Dragon = 용. United = 합심하다 (there are several options)
The Dragon and United in the exercises are 2 sport's teams, so of course they want to say it like in English, not translate them in ''real Korean''. It doesn't mean they don't have a ''real'' Korean word for those words.
But yes, Korean have a lot of loan words, like in every languages.
Apart from Icelandic. Literally every language I've heard of uses English loan words like Computer or Chocolate, but Icelandic makes up its own words for those. It's really cool!
English ALSO uses a lot of loan words from many other languages. For example: Faux pas... Je ne sais quoi... Aficionado... Basmati... Ménage à trois... Doppelgänger... Samurai... Usually if it existed somewhere else (in another language) another language may borrow it...unless they too come to use it in their own tradition, in which case, they sometimes have their own word for it. Same goes with some foods.
French doesn't say computer. Chinese also makes an effort to not be lazy and use their own words.
That's a real pity, because all languages seems the same, if it's go on, no need to learn other languages, we'll all speak the same newspeak.
They're called loan words. They also use loan words in japan too. I think the point of this exercise is to familiarize yourself with popular english words being pronounced in korean.
Loan words are popular in every language, yes. It's always fascinating to see where different cultures go with them.
Bruh I wrote apartment with an A instead of an a and it counted as a mistake
In seoul (서울) 'ㄹ' this consonant used. How ? 'ㄹ' Gives sense of r but in seoul it is 'L'
In word '서울' (seoul) how consonent 'ㄹ' is used as this gives sense of r but in 'seoul' L is written And also in seoul ...o is present so why we didn't use 오
The way things are spelled in Korean are almost never going to be individually spelled out like in English. So, the letter 'O' may be in the English spelling of 'Seoul' but it is not necessarily used as '오'. To make that a little easier to understand, 'Seoul' uses '어' in '서울' which would be translated to 'eo' (어=eo). So if it helps, it's still spelled correctly in that sense.
Sorry, I'm bad at explaining this, but i hope it helped.
In English we say "apartment" but, in Korean we say "apateu" (apartment) in Japanese we say "apato" in Korean and Japanese this word is almost similar
