translation practice #20 (Dec 20 2007)

[hyunwoo]

This one should be easy, but can you guess what these 실's are in English without looking up your dictionary?

Please make a guess before looking up the dictionary!

[deathbychopstix]

[spoiler]Emergency room and injecting(??) room is what I came up with. I was happy to know 실 without looking it up but I had to look up 주사 [/spoiler]

[steved]

[spoiler]Looks like you are hanging out in a hospital... are you ok? [/spoiler]

[Keith]

병원 예쁘지 않아요?
(Isn't that hospital pretty?)

[Dan_84]

[spoiler]실 usually has the meaning of room, I thought. But, I'm still not totally sure about the difference between it and 방. Maybe 실 has more to do with a function. For example, the students at my 학원 dread getting sent to the IBT실 (보충 숙제) or the 제시실 (in order to re-take a failed vocabulary test).[/spoiler]

[steved]

Both 실(室) and 방 (房) mean room, however, 실 must be attached to an adjective:
응급실, 교실, 화장실...
But 방 can be used all by itself!

[javiskefka]

It's like 점 and 가게 I guess, except 가게 doesn't have a 한자.