Korean = 한(Han)국(guk)어(eo)
- Korean is quite a complicated language in terms of its grammar. Traditionally Korean speech is made up of nine parts, however the basic form of a Korean sentence is 'subject-object-verb', though the verb is only required and immovable.
- Korean is not written linearly like the English alphabet but rather it's written in blocks to represent a syllable. e.g. dog is written in three letters in English but dog in Korean is only written in one syllable (개).
- There are some differences to Korean language and dialects in different regions of the country. Dialects can be separated by the different intonations and stresses on certain syllables of the word. Examples such as Seoul (Central) dialect speakers make use of vowel lengths whereas speakers from the South tend to stress certain syllables and use pitch accent.
- Korean has a complex honorific system- -ssi (씨), -nim (님) can be used at the end of words and sentences when addressing to an older more respected individual. -ya or -a (야, 아), gun (군) can be used to addressed younger individuals with gun (군) being used to addressed to younger single males in formal occasions.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_grammar
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_honorifics
After, reading through extensive information about the language I found that only some parts are only relevant to my research and only small parts are really related and important in my design and idea generation, therefore I didn't go into too much detail about learning about the language.
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