Differences between English, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese

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The four speakers compare word pronunciations across languages with the general discourse held in Korean. Terms involving English morph to and from other languages depending on phonetic inventories. Also, note that the social practice of taboo words in Korean carries over when other languages a have a taboo Korean word in the comparisons leading to a humorous moment.

Posted by Justin Connolly on June 28, 2017

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Japanese;
Korean;
Mandarin Chinese;
Code-switching

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