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All but one of those GIs were very good speakers (even that guy was trying hard) — the key element for them was that they spoke like men, which I presume they got from modeling men’s speech rather than learning from some girl. Or they learned from some girl who cared enough to get them speaking right. Bravo Zulu to those soldiers.
I’m impressed even if some were reading a well practised spiel.
Almost wish I worked in the military after dropping a few million won on Korean lessons over the years.
“두이 중사” sure looks a lot like 두이 상사, my 1SG when I attended DLI back in 2001. Either he has a twin brother or he made a big mistake somewhere along the line in the last few years.
…And it looks a lot more like 두이 하사 in that video - I’m not seeing the second rocker on his shoulder boards…
great pr
“the key element for them was that they spoke like men, which I presume they got from modeling men’s speech rather than learning from some girl.”
You’ll love me now, Brendon.
If there is anything that makes my ears cringe more than some young Korean women speaking in that incredibly annoying voice that some of them do, it’s her newbie ‘English teacher’ boyfriend who equates the ability to mimic her to fluency in Korean.
The last guy has an amazing voice in Korean. I could see that guy doing radio here.
Since its seems to be on topic, I went ahead and “youtube”ed the news clips from when I was in the military and took a shot at winning the Korean speech contest in 2005. The first guy on the clip is one of those rare linguistic talents, and there was probably one other soldier on the peninsula better then him at the time, he attended DLI.
I’m the dorky schmuck who isn’t pandering or acting like a jackass (and probably couldn’t even pass the DLAB to get into DLI).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbQyVkDBEeg
Funny side note: I was under the impression that a ROK 대령 was going to judge all speeches, so I thought nothing of complaining about imbalanced media coverage of USFK. Low and behold, right before all this was to comence they announce that two KBS anchors would do the judging… whoops. At least that made the experience all the more self gratifying.
Captbbq - Ah yes, who can forget “왈달”. I never personally knew the guy but his language learning ability was legend, even up in 2ID. Of course to take such a talent and sink to such shameless pandering… I’m sure the audience went wild after you complained about media coverage of USFK. Real crowd pleaser, eh?
So, how do you suggest I speak Korean less like a girl? Seriously.
When I worked in Korea it all my Korean co-workers were female. My partner of 4 years is female. And you can’t learn from most middle age Korean men as they speak in monasyllabic grunts or try to impress you with their English. That leaves the 20 somethings, and lets be honest most of them speak like girly men.
Alas I feel doomed to speak like a girly man, but no, there is one chance for me. Ajumma’s speak like men, i should model myself on an ajumma.
Correction:
“The
first guyon the clip…” => second guyDead silence… I could have heard a pin drop.
My pizza delivery guy speaks like a homo, so he’s out as a model.
12,
funny how we can tell those things even if you don’t know the language well…. the gate guard at my barracks way back sounded certifiably retarded. He had one of those honking “Heeeeeey Guuuuuys!” type of voices… drove a bike to work, limited vocabulary, vacant stare with a stupid grin on his face all the time… scared the bejeezes out of me they gave this guy a loaded weapon.
I specialize in 7-11 clerks. That is, if you have the misfortune of working at the 7-11 Store on the graveyard shift, male or female, and if you don’t have any customers, and if you dare step outside for a smoke, I will be on you like a fly to feces.
Language practice, some call it. But the fact that I am older, much older than you means that you will listen to me. You will understand me.
Baldy, some call me, but my age definitely works in my favor for language comprehension purposes. PY VU WU WT GD, FQ LE MH GDF MEV JE FDF PU KEV KE?
“PY VU WU WT GD, FQ LE MH GDF MEV JE FDF PU KEV KE?”
I’m wondering, what does this mean?
I worked at 7-11 in Daejeon when I was college student and I never leaned this.