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- "아이가 일해요."
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I can't hear the difference between 이래요 and 일해요. What should I be listening for?
The difference exists only in very careful, slow speech. In more natural, daily speeking, when ㄹ meets ㅎ, ㅎ becomes silent. Therefore, most of the time there is no difference between 일해 and 이래. Similarily, 말하다 (to speak) usually sounds like [마라다] and 끓이다 (to boil) like [끄리다] and so on.
Im not certain, but "이래요" is pronounced more like "ee-leh-yo" and 일해요 sounds more like "ill-eh-yo"
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OMG I am native Korean. But I choose wrong word. I hear this pronounce like 이래요. (even slow speech also)
Yepp, gets me every time, too. Should there be a difference in pronunciation between 일해요 and 이래요?
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I'm pretty sure child labour has been outlawed in South Korea. The North is another story...
Child Labour is legally prohibited in North Korea. In reality it sometimes is not abided, though. Yet still, children's rights are respected to a quite surprising level, if we take into account the overall terrible human rights situation. According to majority of evidence North Korea does not abuse child labour to the extent China and some other countries do.
Here is a quite interesting and recent article about freedoms of children in North Korea.
For a second I thought of the child working correctly like a machine... Is there a difference with those words or do you just need the context like in English?
I don't know myself, but that is a good point. Work in English can mean physical labor or it can refer to something functioning/operating correctly. I'd like to know if 일하다 changes meaning as well.
