TONGUE TWISTER
Jul 17, 2019
3 minutes
GED BULMER
DID YOU KNOW there are three different ways to say goodbye in Korean, depending on who leaves and who is staying?
No? Me neither, at least not until I sat down to write this farewell piece, at which point I also learned that Korean is one of the world’s oldest living languages, most likely a distant relative of the Ural-Altaic family of languages, which includes Mongolian, Finnish and Hungarian.
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