"Washington apartment"

Translation: 워싱턴 아파트

[noname899138]

Apartment has the translation of just apart?

[DanielDemi11]

Since we are translating phonetic English shouldn't 와싱턴 be okay as well?

[ScottHarri207327]

I think these are set spellings, even for loan words. Like we say 'baguette' and you couldnt spell it as 'bagget' or 'bagwet' or whatever, even though it sounds the same or very similar. Still a learner so not sure though :)

[AverageNerd]

No. They are teaching you loanwords, which are known as Konglish - English words borowed into Korean. For example, the word "doughnut" was directly borrowed into Korean, and it is spelled as 도넛, which reflects the pronunciation, not the spelling.

As we pronounce the first syllable of Washington as "wo" not "wa", in Korean is is not 와싱턴, but rather 워싱턴.

[theduelist]

I think it's flunking me for not using the korean keyboard I don't have.

[t0Sh5]

you can use the word bank

[Josh_i_j]

Users can install the Korean keyboard on at least Windows and Mac

[Miaoumiam]

And android

[ROBLOGNICK]

I'm never going to get used to the difference between o and oe sounds. Whenever I come back to this question I always spell Washington wrong. I always write it 위싱톤.

[pxlacios]

The 아바트 word sounds so japanese

[Joey415156]

That's because it is Japanese. The word 아파트 comes from Japanese "apato."

[greenrevenge]

** 아파트 ㅋㅋ

[VatSQ]

What was my mistake?

[BryanCarlo]

Why doesn't it have an m sound for Korean?

[Lexi799910]

It does, This is the hangul for letter "M": ㅁ

[AverageNerd]

It does: ㅁ, which is called 미음 mi eum