One of the fun things for me to learn when I was studying Korean is the sounds that animals make. I was surprised by how different some animal sounds were!
ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋ถํ ๋ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๊ฒ ๋ฐฐ์ด ๊ฒ ์ค ํ๋๋ ๋๋ฌผ ์๋ฆฌ์ด๋ค. ๋ช๋ช ๋๋ฌผ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ (๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ) ์ผ๋ง๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ์ง ์๊ณ ์ ๋ง ๋๋๋ค!
For example, in American English, a pig says, โoink, oink,โ and a frog says, โribbit, ribbit.โ It seems to be that culture really does influence the words we choose to represent certain sounds.
์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ๋ผ์ง ์ธ์์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ โ์ค์ํฌ, ์ค์ํฌ(oink, oink)โ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋งํ๊ณ , ๊ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ โ๋ฆฌ๋น, ๋ฆฌ๋น(ribbit, ribbit)โ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค. ๋ฌธํ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํน์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํํํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ ํํ๋ ๋จ์ด์ ์ ๋ง ํฐ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค.
The sounds a dog makes are also very different. We think a dog says, โbow wow or bark, bark or roof, roof,โ but none of these sound like the sound a Korean dog makes.
๊ฐ์์ง๊ฐ ๋ด๋ ์๋ฆฌ๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๋ค๋ฅด๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฐ์์ง๊ฐ โ๋ฐ์ฐ ์์ฐ(bow wow)โ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ธ๊ฑฐ๋ โ๋ฐํฌ(bark)โ๋ โ๋ฃจํ ๋ฃจํ(roof, roof)โ ์ด๋ฐ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ธ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ค ์ด ์ค ์ด๋ ๊ฒ๋ ํ๊ตญ ๊ฐ์์ง๊ฐ ๋ด๋ ์๋ฆฌ์๋ ๋ค๋ฅด๋ค.
Why do you think they're so different? Of course, the sounds we choose should sound natural in our language. Koreans really struggle with โwoโ and โr/lโ sounds so it makes sense that they would try to avoid those sounds.
์ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑธ๊น? ๋ฌผ๋ก , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ ํํ ์๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ง[=์์ด]์์ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฆด ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ โwoโ๋ โr/lโ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ด๋ ค์์ ์ด๋ฐ ์๋ฆฌ๋ ๋๋๋ก ํผํ๋ ๊ฒ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฌ์ด ํ์์ด๋ค.
Animal sounds are also something that kids learn so the sounds have to be easy enough for a baby to make. Interestingly, some bird sounds are quite similar between Korean and English.
๋ ๋๋ฌผ ์๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ด๋ค์ด ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ด๋ณด๊ธฐ์๋ ์ฌ์ด ์๋ฆฌ์ฌ์ผ ํ๋ค. ๋ช๋ช ์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด์ ์์ด๊ฐ ๋น์ทํ๋ค๋ ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๋ค.
The sound for crows is, โcaw, caw,โ and the sound for ducks is, โquack, quack.โ It makes you wonder why some sounds are so similar while others are so different! I hope this helps you in your English journey and has given you something to think about!
๊น๋ง๊ท ์๋ฆฌ๋ โ์นด์, ์นด์(caw, caw)โ ์ค๋ฆฌ ์๋ฆฌ๋ โ์พ, ์พ(quack, quack)โ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ด๋๋ฐ, ์ ์ด๋ค ์๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋น์ทํ๊ณ ๋ ์ด๋ค ์๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑด์ง ๊ถ๊ธํด์ง๋ค! ์ค๋ ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ ๋ฐ ๋์์ด ๋๊ณ ์๊ฐํ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋๋ค!