韓国人日本語学習者が間違えやすい類義語について - 「정신」の日本語訳を中心に -

Abstract

This paper is to study the translation of 「jeongsin」 into Japanese which causes lots of mistakes in translation because it is frequently used in the Korean language among mistakable Chinese characters since Japanese learners who use Korean as the native language share Chinese characters in educational institutions. The result of the research shows ① that the characters of meanings of 「jeongsin」correspond to 「seisin」「ki」「isiki」etc. because it has more extensive meanings than Japanese 「seisin」, ② that there occurs a subtle difference in their meanings and uses etc. since「seisin」,「ki」, and「isiki」are synonyms in Japanese, and ③ that it can be found that 「jeongsin」must be liberally translated into other words in some examples in the case of the translation of 「jeongsin」into 「seisin」. Because of such a reason, it can be thought that careful attention should be paid when Japanese learners who use Korean as the native language translate 「jeongsin」into Japanese owing to lots of difficulties in translation.