{"id":19,"date":"2008-05-22T16:03:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T20:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/?p=19"},"modified":"2017-12-21T09:47:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T14:47:14","slug":"korean-pronunciation-for-english-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/korean-pronunciation-for-english-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Pronunciation for English Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll have fries with that! \u201c<strong><em>French fries<\/em> <\/strong><strong>\uc8fc\uc138\uc694 <em>juseyo<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d I said to the cashier at <strong>\ubc84\uac70 \ud0b9<\/strong> <em>beogeo king<\/em>. Her only response was a confused look. I repeated myself. She tried to follow my line of vision to locate what I was looking at on the overhead menu. It was written in Korean, so I went ahead and sounded it out with Korean pronunciation: <strong>\ud6c4\ub80c\uce58\ud6c4\ub77c\uc774<\/strong> <em>hurenchi hurai<\/em>. A look of relief as she rang up my order.<br \/>\nI had until then been avoiding saying any words borrowed from English (and there are thousands of them!) with Korean pronunciation because I was afraid I would sound like I was mocking their accent. This French fry experience helped me to realize that Koreans regard such words as Korean, not English. To put this into perspective, Americans pronounce hors d&#8217;oeuvres and fondue nothing like the original French, and trying to pronounce it like a Frenchman while speaking English just ends up sounding pretentious. The same is true in Korean for pronouncing loan words from English. Just keep that in mind when ordering a <strong>\ub77c\uc9c0 \uce58\uc988 \ud53c\uc790<\/strong> <em>raji chijeu pija<\/em>*!<br \/>\n*large cheese pizza!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2008\/05\/french-fries1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>I\u2019ll have fries with that! \u201cFrench fries \uc8fc\uc138\uc694 juseyo,\u201d I said to the cashier at \ubc84\uac70 \ud0b9 beogeo king. Her only response was a confused look. I repeated myself. She tried to follow my line of vision to locate what I was looking at on the overhead menu. It was written in Korean, so I&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/korean-pronunciation-for-english-words\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[2871],"tags":[70,2934,375275],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-korean-language","tag-food","tag-konglish","tag-pronunciation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/2717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}