Strange vowels, hand necks and the 'f' rule.
As a fan of the Swedish language, I've previously featured a few posts collecting some of my favourite Swedish words and expressions. However, I've come across lots of other cool languages and cool linguistic expressions on my travels, so I thought I would take this opportunity to expand beyond the theme of Swedish and cover a few other languages.
First up are a few quirks from the Korean language...
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| "I'll have a vowel please, Carol." |
1) Vowels and consonants
Something I found weird when I first visited Korea was that in the Korean language, 'w' and 'y' are classed as vowels. I'd come across 'y' being classed as a vowel when I went to Norway, but it seemed a bit weird for 'w' to be classed as a vowel. To me with my English background, 'w' should blatantly be classed as a consonant.
However, when you analyse it it's not as daft as it seems...
