Discussion Post #5

[Ethan Han]

In Korean, there are many cognates in its language. For example, 피자 is pronounced pija. The word translates to pizza. The reason why Korean has so many cognates is because of Japan. Japan colonized Korea from 1910 to 1945. During this time, Japan forbade Koreans to speak and learning Korean. Instead, Koreans had to speak Japanese, and Japanese is full of cognates. The reason why there are so many English words is that the U.S. traded a lot with Japan. Thus, a lot of English words got incorporated into Japanese. And this translated into Korean because they were never able to create new words for new things introduced to them. Things like pizza. Because there are so many cognates in Korean this will help me learn Korean because I will already know so many words in Korean it's just a matter of if I am pronouncing them correctly.