Hangul lessons || Learning a new language || Hangul loanwords and Konglish
Annyeong!!!
So I heard Cameroon and South Korea had a friendly match today against the world cup in November and they won🤔. Oh well, this would have been my 1 chance to go to South Korea and practice this new language I'm learning but there will be other time.
That aside, let's continue with our hangul lesson. We have looked at hangul vowels and hangul consonants. But today's class will be korean words you didn't know you already knew. Those words are actually called loanwords and konglish words.
The loanwords are those that were taken from english and spelled in hangul so they have almost same pronouciation and same meaning. While the konglish words are those that english speakers may not know the meaning immediately because they are not exactly like the English words. Soooo let's begin with the easy part
KOREAN LOANWORDS
| Konglish | Romanised | English meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 오렌지 | orenji | Orange |
| 바나나 | Banana | Banana |
| 라디오 | Radio | Radio |
| 아이스크림 | Aiseu keulim | Ice cream |
| 핸드폰 | haendeupon | handphone |
| 파이팅 | Paiting | Fighting |
| 섿시 | Segsi | Sexy |
| 초돌릿 | Chokollit | Chocolate |
| 와인 | Wain | Wine |
| 비타민 | Bitamin | Vitamin |
| 메누 | Menu | Menu |
| 레몬 | Lemon | Lemon |
| 마데팅 | Maketing | Marketing |
| 치킨 | Chikin | Chicken |
| 사인 | Sain | Sign |
| 샌드위치 | Saendeuwichi | Sandwich |
| 주스 | Juseu | Juice |
| 크레용 | Keureyong | Crayon |
| 라임 | Raim/Laim | Lime |
| 매니큐어 | Maenikyueo |
Sooo, those are 20 korean words you actually knew but you're just finding out you knew them now. Let's look at just 10 konglish words. As I said they are not exactly like the English meaning as the case with loan words.
KONGLISH WORDS
| Konglish | Romanised | English meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 에어콕 | Eeokon | Air conditioner (made to sound like air-con) |
| 아파트 | Aparteu | Apartment |
| 리모걱 | Rimokeon | Remote control (made to sound like remo-con) |
| 원피스 | Wonpiseu | A dress (made to sound like 1 piece as in like a gown which is 1 piece of clothing) |
| 원룸 | Won-lum | Studio (sounds like 1 room) |
| 오픈카 | Opeunka | Convertible (sounds like open car |
| 밴드 | Baendeu | bandage or band aid |
| 센티 | Senti | centimeter |
| 텔레비 프로 | Tellebi peuro | Television program |
| 화이트 | Hwaiteu | Correction ink |
See you again soon!!!
Reading the Korean spellings gives me that illiterate granny pronunciation vibes. Not to lie, it's interesting
😂😂😂 yeah, it's quite interesting.
So interesting
So who borrowed words words from who now 😃. I tried pronouncing the new words and the similarities are wonderful. I've watched some Japanese films but I've never made out these words.
Hangul borrowed the words from English.
This isn't Japanese oh.
You may hear it frok kdrama. Its korean not Japanese that's a whole different language
Thank you 🙏
Owuoooo! Now tell me, who taught you all this? You want to go to Japan and leave me here in this our won-lum to rot in it eh
To think you and Wase keep saying Japanese when I'm clearly saying its Korea.
Yes oh. I want go join kpop
You can come with me