Chapter 45: "The Functional Use of the Word 'Petrification' in Beginner's Korean Conversation"

Essentially, there is none. But today in the all-girls class, that's what they were teaching me. The word for "fossil" or "petrification." It took like fifteen minutes to do, because unfortunately English speakers can't hear the difference between the right sound and the wrong one, and thus cannot easily reproduce that sound on purpose.

I discovered that about five minutes into the lesson, but it took fifteen minutes because the two girls teaching me wouldn't accept my failure at pronouncing this important Korean word.

If you think about it, in English, most words can be said with an accent, and everyone knows what you're saying because of it's context in the sentence. Yes, we can tell your first language isn't English, but whatever. Not so in Korean? Hehehe

Eventually I discovered that the problem was with my pitch, and not pronunciation of the consonant. And pitch I can usually do.

Anyways, it was a cute lesson :-) And now I can say the word (sort of). It's "hwa suc" and NOT "hwa ssuc."

*headdesk*