NAPUN HAKSENG EE-YAY-YO!
(I AM A BAD STUDENT!)

Hey! I understood what you wrote!

I should pick it up again, but out here in rural Minnesota....why bother?

Good luck, have fun.

All non-native Korean linguists understand your position, don't sweat it. Get what you can out of the class and get some BS on your NCOER and you're at what we all know to be the real Army standard.

ONULUN NALSHEE GA, OTTO SOOM NEE KA?

Does Korean use the same alphabet?  Or is it cyrillic or the Japanese one?  I have never tried a langauge that does not use the roman Alphabet, so I really have no idea how hard it would be.

Korean has their own, SCIENTIFICLY DERIVED alphabet. Its was developed only like 500 years ago. At the time everyone spoke Korean, but if they wanted to write stuff they had to learn Chinese. So the king at the time created an alphabet so simple that you could learn it in three mornings, and the people could use it to write the sounds they made were they spoke. There's something like 28 characters or something, I dunno. Anyways, it looks totally different than written Chinese or Japanese.

In the end, the alphabet is the easy part of Korean. It doesn't take much to learn at all. Koreans problem is its grammar, because its the devil language.

Korean has their own, SCIENTIFICLY DERIVED alphabet.

I know they say that all the frickin' time, but really. How scientific can it be? Did King Sejong go around in a lab coat making markings on a clip board? Did he hypothesize the possible results of his language and then do clinical experiments with the placement of the sheeit?

(For those of you not familiar, sheeit is an actual scientific type korean letter, not a reference to excrement. But what the hell, sheeit happens.)

I bet he didn't make it up at all. I bet some lowly subordinate did it for him, and he took all the credit and got an ARCOM........

And yes. It's the devil language.

Reply By: Talisein(Anonymous User)

I appreciate the explanation, even if some would disagree with you on the how it was derived!

And yes. It's the devil language.

Nah, it is fun and helps you eat new and exciting food.

Xtine:

I should pick it up again, but out here in rural Minnesota...

X-X-SPC:

ONULUN NALSHEE GA, OTTO SOOM NEE KA?

How did you know our first lesson was on weather? Good job, byung-jang. ::

I bet he didn't make it up at all. I bet some lowly subordinate did it for him, and he took all the credit...

Do you really think King James translated the Bible?

Geez:

Nah, it is fun and helps you eat new and exciting food.

Like red hot-pepper seasoned jellyfish. Yum, baby. The only thing I have ever forcibly spat out of my mouth.

Hey, do any of you other DLI foolz remember a video about Hangul? It showed like the Kiuk was supposed to symbolize where the tongue was supposed to be in the mouth, and stuff. I seem to remember it only making sense for like, two letters...

How did you know our first lesson was on weather? Good job, byung-jang.

So we started right in with... weather. Good ol'... well, all I remember about weather is that the guy sitting next to me made up this funny statement about how whenever he goes to the bathroom, it rains a lot in the toilet.

Do you really think King James translated the Bible?

Of course. And I didn't know someone in college who'd daddy used to play for a literally propped up Jerry Lee Lewis when he was too drunk to play himself. Right. And alas. I am but a lowly sang pyong. Pyong chang an ee ya.

Hey, do any of you other DLI foolz remember a video about Hangul?

Vaguely. Very scientific.

I am but a lowly sang pyong. Pyong chang an ee ya.

Mee-an-hamnida, sang byung NBS. Bali pyong chang uh-ro do-ge-sumnida!

How did you know our first lesson was on weather?

All right, smart aleck. I only read that post after I wrote it, not since...

A small update, BTW...
I am enjoying a class update from the language learning center. They are allowing me to take half the class period to come and do my own foundational Korean language refresher coursework. As long as I DLPT at the end, they will be happy. And they will get results.
Oh yes, they will egt results. I'm so much happier!

Here's the Korean mindset for you:

I don't fit neatly into any of the classes offered at this school.
I don't have the level of ability to put me in the basic class.
But I do speak Korean and have a firm footing on which to build.

The Admin NCO and the head of the school asked the following of the Korean faculty:

The Korean teachers were asked if they could rotate in and out of my independent study to help and coach me through this five-week course.

The natives claimed it was not possible, since they are already overworked. The non-native-speakers were happy to accomodate me.

The natives claimed it was not possible, since they couldn't come up with another course of instruction for me. The non-native-speakers were willing to adapt the current curriculum to my needs.

Lazy Koreans. I thought the point of teaching was to instruct, not to tick marks in boxes showing how many courses they'd taught or students they'd moved through the system. Way to be there for a needy student.