Here you will find various website resources that can help you investigate and practice common phrases for giving and responding to compliments in English, Korean, and Japanese!
In this blog, we can see many examples and reasonings as to where and when these examples would be appropriate. There is a section that discusses how not to respond to compliments and how Japanese compliments differ from how compliments are often said in the West. In this blog and through this comparison, learners can see the differences in responses to compliments. This blog, also, gives an introduction to how to respond and give compliments, alongside many examples. There is a section that gives many examples of adjectives for describing someone’s appearance, personality, and even how to enhance a compliment. This blog has a lot of information that would be beneficial to a Japanese language learner and show the pragmatic differences between Japanese and their first language around compliments.
In this blog, we can see a collection of compliment phrases along with how to pronounce them . The phrases are separated into situations that they would most likely be used. Each compliment has a description that discusses the situation where you would use this, the definitions of the kanji, and how you can change the compliment to fit a similar situation. This blog would be a great resource to introduce the pragmatics around Japanese compliments and how compliments differ based on the context.
This source gives many examples of Korean compliments that are commonly used. In this cite, you can find compliments for many different situations, like complimenting someone on their looks to work or skills. This source would be great for students who want to learn common phrases used to compliment people and for which situations they are more appropriate for.
When introducing different common compliment phrases, there is a description that follows that introduces the situations where you may want to use this phrase. Students can use this source to find common compliments and when to use them. Students can also use this source to notice how compliments differ based on the situation that they are being said in. This is a great resource for students to refer to when starting to learn compliments in Korean.
In this source, we receive multiple examples of common phrases used to compliment someone. This cite gives students sentence fragments that they can fill in the blanks to make is associate with many situations. There are many categories on this cite that allow learners and teachers to find compliments that would be appropriate for the situation they they are in. This source would be great for students who are starting to create compliments on their own rather than only learning common phrases.