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- "김치, 김밥, 불고기, 김"
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NO. NO. NO. Nori is Japanese! Nobody calls it 'laver' it's seaweed or kim. UGH. Only slightly frustrated here...
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Agreed! Nobody calls it laver. I had to look it up, and all I get is search results about a tennis player!
The pop-up hint for "김" showed as "laver", the audio pronounced as "kim" and the correct answer showed as "nori"?
Kim is actually the name of the person that came up with mass farming of laver in Korea. A guy was so influential in it that his name became the name of the food!
Ok, so wikipedia says "laver" is a specific kind of seaweed, called "parae" in Korean when it's fresh, and "gim" when it's dried. For the Duolingo team-- if you guys could make this a little more clear in the translation (e.g. "dried laver seaweed" instead of just "laver"), I think that would clear up a lot of the confusion. Since most native English speakers recognize all types of seaweed as just "seaweed," "laver" doesn't mean anything to us.
A nice Korean-American woman teaches you how to make Korean Traditional Bulgogi Kimbap. The Asian kitchen looks healthier that the european one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta9Lpc4KG6A
should'nt it be seaweed? or at least "gim or kim"? Or just change it to cooked seaweed...
I have never heard the term laver in English. It's not American English. I have only heard of seaweed.
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Apparently it's Welsh English. I had to look it up. I've always heard "nori," which is Japanese but used in English where I come from.
Yeah, this is a dumb question. Only one of these words has a possible translation into an English word that is not simply a transliteration of the Korean word into English. What's the point?
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It's a traditional specialty of Wales and South-West England (so you'd have heard of it if you spoke actual English). Nobody want to eat "seaweed" -- gross. Plus it sounds rather like lover so it is memorable -- and I have heard in the Canadian countryside so it has reach. I brought home from Korea/Japan this laver for me, and this laver for you. So we each have our own laver, or we could share ;-) See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverbread . . .
the english versions are confusing, because gimchi isn't allowed but gimbap is. i mean it's the same syllable.
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It is the same symbol, but it can be romanized either as a 'k' or 'g' depending on the word and sometimes depending on the regional dialect.
