Hanmadi Korean Linguistics
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhat do Portuguese explorers have to do with the Korean word for “bread”? Why has the Korean government started using a new word for “website”? And how come there’s a different word for “house” when you’re talking about your grandmother? This biweekly podcast takes you on a deep dive into Korean linguistics through the lens of a single word per episode. Hosted by Jaymin, a native Korean speaker and history professor, and Sara, a 2nd language Korean speaker with a graduate education in linguistics.
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Gyopo: The Highs and Lows of Korean-English Bilingualism
January 31, 2022 19:15 - 37 minutes - 32.4 MBWe are back after some life-induced stop-and-go, including 2/3 of our household getting COVID among several other stressful life things - thank you for your patience (and thanks especially to our guest for his patience!). --- Guest: Dr. Andrew Cheng Background: Andrew had a Fulbright teaching position in South Korea for two years after college as a native English teacher. He then went to grad school at Berkeley, studying under Dr. Keith Johnson, and got interested in sociophonetics. He wrote ...
Keuriseumaseu: Konglish, Christmas, and Korean Syllable Structure
December 15, 2021 03:30 - 25 minutes - 22.4 MBKeuriseumaseu: Syllable structure in Korean Word and meaning: 크리스마스 Keuriseumaseu means Christmas Origin: It comes from the English word Christmas Cultural Contexts: Dating etc. (see the Hanmadi post on Christmas at https://hanmadikorean.com/christmas/) Linguistic element: Syllable structure of Korean (Young-Mee Yu Cho) General syllable structure: Aslam, M., & Kak, A. (2007). English Syllable Structure. In Introduction to English Phonetics and Phonology (pp. 60-68). Foundation Books. doi:...
Korona: Talking About COVID-19 in Korean
November 30, 2021 16:30 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBWords for talking about COVID-19 in Korean As with other languages, a lot of new words have entered Korean during the pandemic, and other older words have come into wider use. New words (neologisms) can be borrowed (i.e., a word used in another language is brought into the language you’re speaking, with a similar or sometimes a somewhat different meaning); or created from “scratch” or by combining parts of other words. Some COVID-related words in Korean: 코로나 - korona - COVID-19 Korean wor...
Sal: "Weird s" and other Korean fricatives feat. Jeff Holliday
November 16, 2021 17:45 - 47 minutes - 39.4 MBIntroduction: Guest Professor Jeff Holliday of Korea University Jeff Holliday is an assistant professor of linguistics at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea. He began learning Korean from friends he met as an undergraduate at Ohio State University, then studied the language more formally, learned about the field of linguistics, and became fascinated by Korean language acquisition, especially how people (including himself) learned to make a language’s sounds without being explicitly told h...
Babari: Genericized Trademarks in Korean, Part 1
November 02, 2021 10:15 - 22 minutes - 17.1 MBMain word: 바바리: Trenchcoat. Comes from the brand, Burberry, of English coats and other such items. Spin-off word, babari maen ("Burberry Man"): A flasher Linguistic element: Proprietary eponyms/genericized trademarks Brand names that become widely used by people to mean any of that type of product. (Sometimes still legally protected, sometimes they lose legal protection due to genericization.) Eg in English: Kleenex (actually still protected legally), Bandaid (also still legally trademarked),...
Hada: Light Verbs, Heavy Lifting
October 26, 2021 18:45 - 19 minutes - 16.7 MBHada: Light verbs, heavy lifting Today's word: 하다 Meaning: to do But it can also be used in a lot of other ways, and I kind of think of it as the verb that does everything Origins: Native Korean word, from middle korean h(backward c)da https://www.ipachart.com/ Linguistic element: Korean verb basics and light verbs The basics on Korean verbs SOV word order (generally) - the verb MUST come last. Hada - infinitive, like “to do” in English. Some debate over whether the ha- or the hada- versi...
Kkul: Minimal pairs and tense situations
October 19, 2021 15:00 - 23 minutes - 20.6 MBFollow us on social media: https://twitter.com/hanmadikorean (@HanmadiKorean) on Twitter [email protected] with any comments, questions, or requests Website:https://hanmadikorean.com/ ( hanmadikorean.com) --- Notes: Story about looking for honey in Homeplus when I had a cold - brings us to today’s world Kkul - means honey. Sorry all our episodes are about food so far, will change next week! Sociocultural context: 꿀 as in a “sweet gig” like when you get an easy army posting; Related wor...
Ppang: A (delicious) linguistic legacy of colonialism
October 12, 2021 20:30 - 26 minutes - 20.6 MBFollow us on social media: https://twitter.com/hanmadikorean (@HanmadiKorean) on Twitter [email protected] with any comments, questions, or requests Website:https://hanmadikorean.com/ ( hanmadikorean.com) ----------- Notes: Ppang (or Bbang) 빵 Meaning Bread Sociocultural contexts Bread in Korea, is it popular, where/when do people eat it, buy it, etc. Do you call croissants etc. ppang? Or only certain products? Origins Portuguese pão However, bread first came to Korea before this wit...
Bap: What is Native Korean?
October 05, 2021 17:00 - 27 minutes - 23.5 MBFollow us on social media: https://twitter.com/hanmadikorean (@HanmadiKorean) on Twitter [email protected] with any comments, questions, or requests Website: https://hanmadikorean.com/ (hanmadikorean.com) Notes: What do you know about the history of Korean? When did Korean become Korean? Old Korean: Generally understood to be language of Unified Silla, which was 668-935, though some debate extends it later or suggests it’s earlier ("Old Korean" in Handbook of Korean Linguistics) Before ...
Chimaek: Chicken, Beer, and Korean Word Origins
September 28, 2021 20:00 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBChi-maek is a Korean word meaning fried chicken and beer, a now-classic combination in South Korea. We can also use this word as a window into the origins if Korean words, as it contains parts of words from two major sources of Korean vocabulary. Show introduction: Why are we doing this podcast? What qualifies us to talk about it? What are our plans? Today's word: 치맥 Chi-maek is a portmanteau that means chicken and beer. Origins: chi- comes from chicken, an English word from the Old English o...