At a mountain base, he said, he and other spy recruits learned the North Korean dialect and songs, and to walk the way North Korean soldiers did.
Because the North Korean dialect varies just enough from the South Korean -- and because most of the fluttering swallows speak a colorful patois of Chinese and North Korean with a few saucy words of English -- Se-ok often translated for the boys from Seoulite Korean to a version they understood.
Twice he went as a tourist, and twice to study the North Korean dialect.
"It's a Korean type of dialect," Green said.
To reach adults with limited English proficiency, several states have translated their BRFSS surveys into other languages, including Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese dialects), Korean, Khmer (Cambodian), Haitian Creole, Portuguese, and Tagalog.
Watched in 2014, The Interview was purely fun if only because there was nothing in it that seemed like it would ever become a reality and the little, specifically Korean details (the differing dialects, the shift in music) were weirdly gratifying to pick out as someone of Korean descent.
He points out that they do not speak traditional Korean in North Korea, they speak their own dialect and traditional Korean is forbidden.
There are lessons on food, culture and the Anglicized dialect of the South Korean language -- and then the magical things: computers, cellphones, newspapers, bank accounts, credit cards and insurance.
A Korean expert hired to assess the teenager's dialect by a controversial Swedish linguistic company that evaluates asylum applications told journalists that his strong dialect had left her in no doubt that he came from North Korea.
His employees speak the languages of trading partners: English, Spanish, Creole, Korean and French, not to mention multiple Chinese dialects.
He faces prejudice from South Korean society which often considers North Koreans, with their archaic dialect and strange accent, as ignorant and backward.
