An Instagram video explaining the similarities between Korean and Hindi phrases has gone viral.
Uploaded by Jiwon (@korean.g1) on Feb. 6, the Korean and Hindi speaker wears a saree within the video whereas sharing 5 phrases and phrases with related pronunciations and meanings between the languages.
“I discovered that many Indians wish to study Korean,” Jiwon defined within the description. “So right now I wish to educate you 5 related phrases in Hindi and Korean.”
The 5 phrases Jiwon introduces are 12 months, broom, hell, tea and sticky. When sharing the phrases, Jiwon alternates between the Korean and Hindi pronunciations and makes use of them in sentences as examples for her viewers. Evaluating the phrases for tea — “chai” in Hindi and “cha” in Korean — Jiwon makes use of the examples “chai piyenge” and “cha masillae,” which each translate to “Would you want tea?”
The video rapidly attracted the eye of linguaphiles, reaching over 1.4 million views and 163,000 likes as of this writing.
“The primary Korean drama I ever watched, I needed to cease each couple of minutes,” one Instagram consumer shared. “My mind was selecting up Hindi at first. I quickly realized how related each dialects are! It’s very cool.”
“I imply the way in which we name our mother and father amma and appa is similar to how Koreans name their mother and father Oma and Opa proper?” one other consumer added.
Some Instagram customers commented different languages that share related options.
“And that narak means cute in thai,” one consumer wrote in reference to the Korean and Hindi phrases for hell.
“Cha (tea) is definitely identical in Gujarati,” one other commented, increasing the phrase to the western coast of India.
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