Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Hellos, Goodbyes and Really!?

Just a quickie tonight:

안녕하세요
Hello is usually "Annyonghaseyo," which means "Are you at peace?"
The response is typically "Ne, annyonghaseyo" which is something like "yes, are you?"

여보세요
"Yobosoyo" which also means hello ~ usually used on the telephone but i hear it outside sometimes to

Goodbye is often the same as hello or shorter "annyong" for example.

전체
And, a fun word we all picked up right away and hear spoken often is "cheen-cha" which means "really." It is used as an expression like "no way!" often..  My friend made me laugh when he says that he'll intently listen to a Korean speaking Korean to him and when there is a pause, he responds "cheen-cha!"  Which is so funny because he hasn't got a clue what was just said to him but saying "really?!" works just fine.   

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