Duolingo Progress with Korean & German

Spotlight on Korean

I am interested to learn Korean.  I have heard of K-Pop and Gangnam Style dance trend from around ten years ago.

Korean -	Hello (on the phone  여보세요 (yeoboseyo)

Part of speech	Translation
	English - Hello

 Reflection: It is a steep learning curve.  I having been working on Korean with Duolingo for over 2 years.  I have Level 12 or 4334 XP in experience engaging with alphabet and sounds. But I still haven't learnt any vocab.  So, I picked a greeting as an example for this post.

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - hello German - Guten Tag Danish - Hej Dutch - Hallo Swedish- Hallå Norwegian - Hallo Italiano - ciao  Francais - salut Romanian-Buna ziua Haitian Creole - bonjou Esperanto - saluton Latin-Salve Welsh - helo Irish - Dia dhuit Scottish Gaelic - halò Zulu - Sawubona Hawaiian - aloha Swahili-mia Czech - ahoy Hungarian-Szia Polish-Witam Turk-merhaba Indonesian - halo Japanese-こんにちは Kon'nichiwa Korean -안녕하세요 annyeonghaseyo Hindi - नमस्ते namaste Yiddish - העלא hela Ukranian-привіт pryvit Vietnamese- xin chào Greek- Χαίρετε Chaírete Russian привет privet

   Spotlight on German

I started learning German in the second year of high school 12 months after my fellow students (as I changed from another high school that only offered French).  I enjoyed learning it, but found it a learning curve two change from two genders of nouns in French (le, la) to getting used to learning three genders in German ( der, die, das)

German - Dein Bär war total faul, wir schenken ihm keinen Elefanten.

English - Your bear was totally lazy, e aren't gifting him an elephant.

 Reflection: I love embracing the accents like bär for bear in German.  It feels like a secret code as you adapt first to the novelty before you get used to remembering the accents.

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - bear German - bar Danish - bjørn Dutch - beer Swedish- Björn Norwegian - Bjørn Italiano - orso  Francais - ours Romanian-urs Haitian Creole - lous Esperanto - urso Latin-Ursa Welsh - arth Irish - béar Scottish Gaelic - mathan Zulu - ibhere Hawaiian - bea Swahili-dubu Czech - medvěd Hungarian-medve Polish-niedźwiedź Turk-ayı Indonesian - beruang Japanese-くまKuma Korean 곰 gom Hindi -सहना sahana Yiddish - בער ber Ukranian-імператор imperator Vietnamese- Hoàng đế Greek- αυτοκράτοραςaftokrátoras Russian медведь medved'

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