Showing posts with label Vietnamese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vietnamese. Show all posts

Naver's newest dictionary: Vietnamese

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Naver (basically Korea's Google and Yahoo combined) has recently added a new language to its excellent online dictionaries, making this the seventh after English, Japanese, Chinese, French, Spanish, and German. This one is interesting as there is no recorded Vietnamese pronunciation as far as I can see, but there is Korean pronunciation of every word (those were already recorded so nothing new here). Releasing a new language without audio shows that it is probably more to help Vietnamese in Korea learn the language than the other way around. At the moment there are a registered 115,000 or so Vietnamese in Korea, roughly half on working visas and the other half coming to the country for marriage.

Here's one example of a word in the dictionary:


슬금슬금

[부사] Lẳng lặng, bí mật, lén lút, ngấm ngầm.

    • 슬금슬금훔쳐보다 bí mật liếc nhìn, trộm nhìn.

예문(1)

    • bí mật liếc nhìn, trộm nhìn.
    • 슬금슬금훔쳐보다
The dictionary also has a pop-up keyboard, but even without it the dictionary shows results as you type so there is little need to resort to it unless you want to use it just to type something in Vietnamese.

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Learn a "rare" language - University of Nantes launches language courses in Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, and Vietnamese

Monday, March 23, 2009

L'université de Nantes participe avec l'École centrale de Nantes, les universités d'Angers et du Mans au "Pôle de Recherche et d'Enseignement Supérieure", baptisé depuis le 1er janvier 2009, "UNAM" (Universités de Nantes, d'Angers, Le Mans) et dont le siège est situé à Nantes. L'objectif de l'"UNAM" est de faire émerger un pôle d'excellence, attractif et visible dans la compétition internationale.


I'm not sure whether Turkish or Vietnamese could be called "rare", but nevertheless:

Nous avons constaté un manque de préparation linguistique et culturelle de certains de nos étudiants en mobilité internationale, en particulier vers des pays aux langues Moins Dites et Moins Enseignées.
We've found a lack of linguistic and cultural preparation in some of our students in international mobility, in particular towards countries with languages less spoken and less studied.
Les étudiants arrivaient dans le pays sans connaître les bases de la langue ni de la culture, lié notamment au fait que certaines universités étrangères offrent des cours en anglais (ex. la Finlande). Afin de faciliter l'intégration des étudiants dans un nouveau cadre culturel et universitaire et atténuer le « choc culturel », l'Université a mis en place des modules d'initiation à six langues et cultures, ouverts gratuitement à l'ensemble des étudiants de l'Université sur le second semestre de l'année universitaire.
Students arrive in the country without knowing the base of the language or the culture, especially with certain foreign universities that offer courses in English (Finland for example). To facilitate the integration of the students in a new cultural and universitary frame and decrease culture shock, the University has established introductory modules to six languages and cultures, free for the students of the University in the second semester of the university year.

To see the entire page automatically translated into English, click here.

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