I’m not a language expert as well, but from what I’m aware of, a lot of the Asian languages are pretty diverse. Chinese would be quite influential and you can sense some of it, especially in Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese, but for the rest of them ,it is qu...
Interesting. Before starting this numbers exercise I hadn’t thought about how useful numbers might be for understanding the tonal system. I’ll come back to this. Sample 4: “Make / wrap zongzi” 00:00 00:00 “Make / wrap zongzi” 包粽子 [supposedly aka “sticky rice dumplings” — goo...
Koreans, like many Chinese, have a superstition about the number 4. In Chinese it’s because 四(4) and 死(death) are both pronounced “si”. In Korean, it’s because inChinesethey’re pronounced the same. The Sino-Korean pronunciation of both is 사. In native Korean, 4 is 넷 an...
Koreans, like many Chinese, have a superstition about the number 4. In Chinese it’s because 四(4) and 死(death) are both pronounced “si”. In Korean, it’s because inChinesethey’re pronounced the same. The Sino-Korean pronunciation of both is 사. In native Korean, 4 is 넷 an...