I'm learning Korean

[Frankychan]

Korean kicks a**.

Is it easier to learn Korean than Japanese? My Japanese is so rusty that when I speak I sound like a 4 year old boy.

[Alexander's Horse]

they say if you learn Korean, Japanese is easy

we thought we were doing fine until we watched some Korean TV soap episodes

some of it is a real tongue twister and it doesn't have the Japenese consonant-vowel-consonant structure.

[Timexwatch]

Japanese is tough enough, especially for westerners. The intonation is the polar opposite of English and everything needs to be annunciated better.

I can't believe that I'm doing this for a woman Japanese is the hardest damn thing I've ever tried to learn.

[Frankychan]

Sounds like it would be relatively easy to self-teach yourself. But I'm not saying it's easy...it's probably not.

If Korean has the same sentence structure as Japanese, then I'm probably screwed.

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by Timexwatch
Japanese is tough enough, especially for westerners. The intonation is the polar opposite of English and everything needs to be annunciated better.

I can't believe that I'm doing this for a woman Japanese is the hardest damn thing I've ever tried to learn.

Yes, Japanese is extremely hard. It gets better when you learn that people from Osaka are a lot different than people from Tokyo in their speech patterns.

And don't you love how they have different counting systems for flat, round, cyclindrical, and everything else?

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Timexwatch

I can't believe that I'm doing this for a woman Japanese is the hardest damn thing I've ever tried to learn.

Obviously there are benefits for you

[Timexwatch]

Well, there are benefits for you too, like not having to go to east Crapistan

If I finish this next round of foreign service interviews, I doubt I'd be posted to someplace as cush

[Alexander's Horse]

you are joining the state department?

[Timexwatch]

I did the foreign service exam and passed round one. That was the easy part. The second round comes in February. Even if I do make the second cut, I don't know if I'll do it.

[Alexander's Horse]

you should do it if you get offered but if you aren't committed its likely you won't make the cut anyway

[Timexwatch]

Well, I have until February until the second round starts, so there's plenty of time to reflect. If worse comes to worse, maybe I could be stateside support.

[Alexander's Horse]

I don't like your chances in your current frame of mind - the selection process is designed to weed out people who aren't serious.

[marcuspeddle]

Originally posted by Seeker
AH: try to buy an illegal name chop. It is technically illegal for waygookeem to own the 'real' legal korean name chop.

I had a chop with my real name on it and I registered it at the town hall. I then used it at banks and for other documents.

[Riesstiu IV]

I speak American, the chosen language blessed by god himself.