언어를 배운다는 것(To learn a language)
To learn a new language is to absorb all the contents scattered between the horizons of that language.
언어를 새롭게 배운다는 것은, 그 언어의 지평 사이사이에 있는 모든 내용들을 흡수한다는 것이다.
또한, 언어를 배우는 자신을 원래 가지고 있던 자신의 세계로부터 기꺼이 새로운 세계에 노출시키겠다는 것이다.
애초에 이중 언어를 완벽히 구사하는 것은 불가하다. 자신의 모국어에 기대어 새로운 언어를 이해하는 것이다.
그러므로, 새롭게 언어를 배운다는 것은 나 자신을 그 알 수 없는 새로운 세계에 내맡기고, 두 세계의 경계에 머무르면서 새로운 자신을 만들어가는 것이다.
by hanho daily
To learn a language - to learn a new language is to absorb all the contents scattered between the horizons of that language.
Moreover, it is willingly exposing oneself from one's original world to a new world.
It is impossible to perfectly master bilingualism from the outset. It is about understanding a new language relying on one's mother tongue.
Therefore, to learn a new language is to entrust oneself to that unknown new world and, while lingering at the boundaries of two worlds, to create a new self.
How to read and write Hangul
The Korean Alphabet
Correct Sounds for
Enlightening the People
- Invented 1443
- Promulgated 1446
This article is based on Zev Handel who works for University of Washington.
Chinese oracle bones
- 3250 yrs before present
- divination records of
Shang dynasty kings
- cattle scapulae and
turtle plastrons
- partially deciphered
one of four ex nihilo
- inventions of writing by
our species; the only
one still in use
mǎ ‘horse’
: Oracle Bone Graph -> Modern graph
Early Writing in Korea
Classical Chinese + Vernacular Korean
Sejong the Great (1397-1450)
: The Korean Alphabet
Correct Sounds for
Enlightening the People
- Invented 1443
- Promulgated 1446
Designed on scientific principles
phonetics
phonology
(cosmology)
“The wise can learn it
in a morning,
the
stupid in a week.”
Alveolar Sounds ( relating to or denoting the bony ridge that contains the sockets of the upper teeth.)
n, d, t, l
same place of
articulation
Letter Shape Principles
letter shapes
derived from
single base form
Syllable Block Principles
B U S A N
ᄇ ᅮ ᄉ ᅡ ᄂ
Two Syllables
B U S A N
ᄇ ᅮ ᄉ ᅡ ᄂ
Syllable Block Principles
B U S A N
ᄇ ᅮ ᄉ ᅡ ᄂ
부 산
Use of Hangul
Following its invention, Hangul was not widely used
until the early 20th century
Classical Chinese, written in Chinese characters,
remained the standard written language from the
15th through 19th centuries
Written Korean supplanted Classical Chinese only in
the 20th century
Written Korean used a mixed-script system of
Chinese characters and Hangul until quite recently
Korean written syllables
A written syllable block is structured this way:
Initial at the top or
top left: s
Vowel below or
right of initial: a
Final at bottom: n
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