节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-06-18
难易度:Medium
关键字:coworker, syllable, sound out, fluency
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And I'm Carolyn.
And thank you for joining us for the second day of our lesson: How I Learned to
Read and Write Korean.
Of course we're joining Jo's story here.
She went to South Korea, and she learned how to read and write Korean while she
was there.
She didn't really know much before she arrived in South Korea.
But it can be difficult to learn another language.
And I wonder sometimes if there are some tricks that you can use to help you
learn or understand something better.
Carolyn, do you use any tricks when learning a new language?
Well, I find that even English has a lot of words that I don't know, so I need
to use a dictionary to look them up.
But before I use a dictionary, I like to look at the word and see if it's
similar to other words that I know,
or if there are parts of the word that remind me of other words; maybe they have
similar spellings or sounds and also similar meanings.
I also try to look at the words that are before and after to guess its meaning.
All right.
So Carolyn looks for context clues.
That means within a sentence, she can try to guess what a word means.
Well, there are different tricks you could use to figure out what a word might
mean and how to understand a language better.
We're going to find out more about what Jo did regarding this in our lesson for
today.
(Music).
How I Learned to Read and Write Korean.
The first word I learned to read in Korean was bibimbap, a famous Korean dish.
My Irish coworker taught it to me at a restaurant.
"It's easy to find on a menu," she said.
"It has so many 'b' sounds in the name." She wrote out the whole Korean alphabet
and described how to put letters together.
I learned that the letters go together to form "blocks," or syllables.
Blocks go together to form words.
(Music).
Well, that is a very interesting way to build a language.
Well, going to the beginning of our article for today:
The first word I learned to read in Korean was bibimbap, a famous Korean dish.
This is a very famous Korean dish.
Gabe, have you ever eaten a bibimbap?
Carolyn, I... no, I don't think I have eaten this bibimbap.
This article was actually the first time I've heard of this famous Korean dish.
Carolyn, have you eaten bibimbap before?
I have! And it's quite delicious.
It's the Korean food that you get in a stone bowl.
It's... you usually try to cook it in the bowl.
It's very, very good.
Carolyn, why didn't you just say that? The stone bowl Korean food.
I've had that before.
Oh. Well, so you have had bibimbap.
Oh, I guess I have. It's delicious.
So how did she continue after she tells us about bibimbap?
Well, she says... she actually talks about a coworker from another country
completely - her Irish coworker.
My Irish coworker taught it to me at a restaurant.
Well, let's take a look at that word from the Word Bank.
It is "coworker." Now your coworker is someone that you work with.
It's easy to remember, right?
You see that word "worker" in that word.
It's someone that you work with.
And of course, what job did Jo have, Carolyn?
Well, she was a teacher.
So her Irish coworker would probably also be a teacher there.
And you know, Gabe, you are my coworker here on Studio Classroom.
That's right.
We are coworkers.
And there are many more coworkers here at Studio Classroom.
Sometimes you might work together on a project.
They are certainly your coworker.
But even if you don't work on the same project, but you're still in the same
company, you're still coworkers.
So the teachers on Let's Talk in English and Advanced radio are also our
coworkers.
That is right.
So we have many coworkers here at Studio Classroom and in all of the other
departments that are part of this company.
Well, continuing in the article talking about learning the word bibimbap from
her Irish coworker.
"It's easy to find on a menu," she said.
And why was it easy to find on the menu, Gabe?
Well, her Irish friend said: It has so many "b" sounds in the name.
That was, uh, me trying to have an Irish accent.
I don't know that it quite worked, but there are a lot of "b" sounds in
bibimbap.
So apparently it's very easy to find on the menu because if you look at the
Korean word for bibimbap, it just changes a little bit.
And I guess those are the "b" sound that repeats over and over.
That's right.
It does look like the same symbol that repeats itself.
Well, I guess that's an easy way to remember certain things about Korean that
you could see the same symbols over and over again.
I guess it's a little bit more like the English alphabet than maybe Chinese
characters, right?
That's what it sounds like.
And we see that she wrote out the whole Korean alphabet and described how
letters are put together... or how to put letters together.
So it sounds like you build words just like in English.
You have an alphabet with 26 letters.
And you put them together to make words.
Korean also has an alphabet.
And you put those symbols together, and you make letters.
That's right.
And Jo says: I learned that the letters go together to form "blocks," or
syllables.
And they do kind of look like little blocks, these... these words.
So these things go together to form these things.
Let's take a look at that word from the Word Bank.
It is syllable.
Now a syllable is the sound that you make with a word.
So the word "syllable" has three syllables.
There are three different sounds in that word.
That's right.
So syl-la-ble, three, three syllables.
My name also has three syllables.
Car-o-lyn.
And my name, well, it depends.
If you say Ga-briel, that's two syllables; or Ga-bri-el, that could be three
syllables; or just Gabe, one syllable.
And of course, in the English language, the word with the most syllables is
antidisestablishmentarianism.
Carolyn, that's a wonderful word.
That is a very long word with many, many syllables.
Well, talking about the Korean language and its alphabet, we learned that blocks
go together to form words.
So letters go together to form blocks.
And then those blocks go together to form words.
That's right.
Well, Jo is learning this language.
We're finding out that it's not as hard for her now as she thought it would be.
So she's starting to find out what Korean is and how to read Korean.
Well, right now it's time for us to learn something new with Michelle in the
Language Lab.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.