It is said that language has embedded ways of looking at the world within it. Thinking and perception are not only expressed through language but are also shaped by language. This fact that language shapes our thoughts and perceptions teaches us how extensively language affects us. When we learn our language, we learn not only the words but the ways to perceive the world. Therefore, people may be influenced by what language they use. Goethe said that we must know a foreign language to know the native tongue exactly. It means we can understand our own language easily by comparing it with others. So comparing Korean to English gives us a chance to recognize the characteristics of each language.

The Korean alphabet, Hangul, has 19 consonants and 21 vowels. To make one sound and character, the alphabets must be combined in this order: one consonant and one vowel, or one consonant and one vowel and one consonant. Every single Korean character has consonants and a vowel in combination such as Á¤, my last name in Korean;/¤¸/ is a consonant,

/¤A/ is a vowel, and /¤·/ is a consonant. However, English has words starting with several consonants like spring, student, and sketch. If I want to write the pronunciation of catch in Korean, I have to use 2 vowels even though English uses only one vowel, [a]. That¯s because catch has two sounds, kc + t , and all Korean characters need a vowel to make one sound. On the other hand, English can make a sound by using consonants only.

The Korean language doesn¯t have a different form of verbs for number and person. We use the same verb no matter whether the subject is cI¯, cyou¯, che/she¯, or cthey¯. However, Koreans change the verbs for tenses in past, present, and future and type of sentence such as interrogative or exclamatory sentence. We keep the stem of a word and just change the ending of a word. For example, in English, verb cdo¯ changes into cdid¯, cdo¯, cwill do¯ according to the tenses. In Korean, verb cdo¯ changes into cÇß´Ù¯, cÇÏ´Ù¯, cÇÒ °ÍÀÌ´Ù¯. We keep the stem of a word, cÇϯ and change the end of a word. We can understand what kind of sentence it is according to the intonation

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