{"id":6617,"date":"2020-07-09T19:28:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T00:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2020-08-13T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T19:54:20","slug":"korean-words-that-phonetically-sound-like-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/korean-words-that-phonetically-sound-like-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Words That Phonetically Sound Like English"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 20 years ago, I remember how startling it was when I heard a native speaker pronounce the word \u201cchocolate\u201d because the pronunciation of the word \u201cchocolate\u201d was entirely different than what I had known.<\/p>\n

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There are no other Korean words for this \uc678\ub798\uc5b4 (wae-rae-uh: loanword, foreign word usage). Therefore, I thought that native speakers would speak exactly the same as I would in saying \ucd08\ucf54\ub9bf. However, the huge difference of the word \u201cchocolate\u201d between English and Korean is in intonation.<\/p>\n

In Korean, we have many foreign words that phonetically sound like English. In fact, there is a strong movement to minimize \uc678\ub798\uc5b4 in order to prevent impurity in Korean.<\/p>\n

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I am going to share some examples of \uc678\ub798\uc5b4 in which the only difference is the Korean intonation. I included the audio files below. I want you to try to say the words in English after you listen to the files.<\/p>\n

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1. \ucd08\ucf54\ub9bf (cho-co-lit: chocolate)<\/p>\n

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