Discussion 8

[Justin Park]

I am able to write in Korean… kinda well. According to the people all around me who I text to in Korean, the meaning or message of whatever I’m trying to communicate gets across. However, there are still many spelling mistakes. Most of these are because of characters that sound the same, such as ㅐ vs ㅔ (both sound like ae). Also typing to Korean is hard, especially on a keyboard since I basically don’t know any of the character positions on the QWERTY keyboard. Writing is much easier since I can actually create the words myself. Although, it hasn’t been an issue yet, the sentence structure in Korean differs from English. Of course, the subject, object, and verb of the sentence remains but the ordering of them is different. In English, the basic sentence structure goes subject-verb-object. For example, it would be “I like swimming.” But in Korean, the order goes subject-object-verb. So if the sentence was “나는 수영을 좋아해" (same meaning), the direct translation would be “I swimming like.” But like mentioned above, this hasn’t created any issues for me (yet) in conveying my message or anything of that sort. I’m sure if sentences get more and more complicated though, there may arise an issue of that sort.