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Love and Marriage...and Korean Textbooks

One thing that stands out in Korean language books is the relatively limited selection of topics. A subject that (in contrast to my other languages), however, really always occurs, the marriages. My vocabulary in the field, though nowhere else, is now quite comprehensive and includes, thanks to drama use, such key vocabulary such as "premarital pregnancy," "matchmaking meeting" (for lack of this concept in our country, I am not sure whether the right word) and "broken engagement to" field. To everyday life really useful and helpful! I find it funny

only that were from my previous sample of n = 8 Korean-teachers, estimated age structure of married between the late 20th and mid-40, the exact second Soit qui mal y pense Honni!


One thing that always strikes me about Korean language textbooks is their limited range of topics. However, there's one topic that's inevitably always included, and that is....tadaaa.... marriage . It wasn't featured that prominently in any of the other languages that I studied. My (otherwise pretty limited) Korean vocab has therefore expanded considerably in the area of love and marriage and includes such key expressions as "premarital pregnancy" (thanks to watching random dramas), "to see each other with a view to marry" and "to break off one's engagement". Really helpful for my everyday life!

The funny thing about it is that out of my up-to-now sample of n = 8 Korean language teachers, all in the (estimated) age range of late 20s to mid 40s, exactly n = 2 are married. Soit qui mal y pense Honni!

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