Compare Korean to English

The Characteristics of the Korean Language It is said that language has embedded ways of looking at the world within it. Thinking and perception are not only expressed through language but are also shaped by language. This fact that language shapes our thoughts and perceptions teaches us how extensively language affects us. When we learn our language, we learn not only the words but the ways to perceive the world. Therefore, people may be influenced …

…between Korean and English, Koreans sometimes have a hard time understanding the grammar or habits of English. For example, we don¡¯t know exactly when to use the progressive tense or past perfect progressive because we don¡¯t classify the tenses like that. Language is known to shape speakers¡¯ thoughts and perceptions. I want to learn the ways of thinking of English speakers by learning a new language, English, which is quite different from Korean.