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Languages in an Online Melting Pot

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“Albeit”, “pão”, “manteau”; vocabularies you may expect to hear in European countries. Indeed, these are respectively German, Portuguese, and French vocabularies that settled into the very core of Korean language to a degree where most Koreans believe them as ‘pure Korean words’. Can you imagine Koreans on the street literally saying ‘give me some pão’ or ‘I’m doing albeit (part-time job)’ without context? Not surprisingly, Japanese also has corresponding words, whose usage is no less common than their Korean counterparts.