#learning korean
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구멍
Hole
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일 하다
To work
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개
Dog
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고양이
Cat
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잘못 들었다
Musheard
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불
Fire
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걷다
Walk
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짐을 풀다
Unpack
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처음이에요
It’s my first time
one goal for 2017 crossed off my list!
now to pretend this dumb test doesn’t exist for the next 2 years until my score expires and I have to retake it ._.
My language program in the countryside is over, and I’m finally snuggled up back in my tiny apartment.
Just for my own personal memories, I wanted to write down a few of the highlights from this weird little 5 month transitionary period in my life.
- I made lots of international friends. I was really worried about how I’d fit in, but my classmates were all awesome and it was great to feel part of a community.
- I also got close with several of the Korean students through a mentoring/language exchange program. I made lots of guy friends actually, which is new for me, but fun. Lots of drinking beer, giving girl advice, debating about politics, and generally giving each other a hard time.
- I was the MC for our university’s festival, which took hours of practice, last minute changes and improvisations, and general craziness, but was a really cool experience in the end.
- I also joined the Taekwondo club, took a couple of trips to Jeonju, had a field trip to Everland, took a cooking class, saw a concert, and finally cracked down on studying for TOPIK.
Overall, I gained a lot more friends and unique experiences than I did language skills, but that’s okay. And now I am very glad to be back home with my cozy bed, kitchen, cat, boyfriend, and neighborhood coffee spots just two minutes outside my front door~
Anyone fluent in Korean (minimum of TOPIK 5) and interested in pursuing grad school in Seoul? Specifically to study Korean-English translation and interpretation like I am.
My professor is eager to bring more foreign students into our program, and has asked me to recommend potential students for admission.
I’d be happy to answer your questions and introduce you to her if you’re passionate about pursuing your language studies as a career.
MASTERLIST
(Korean-Learning Content)
Here Is A List Of Most Of The Content I Have Made So Far. (you can only add 100 links per post, so I have to make a second part I guess. I’ll link to it in this post whenever I finish doing that.)
Note: these are in no particular order. It’s kind of all over the place, but it should still help you out
Beginner Topics
7.What’s Next After Learning Hangul?
Korean Grammar
는데, 은데, 인데 Lesson | All Usages
Masterlist Of Beginner Korean Grammar
How To Ask Questions In Korean
(으)러 가다, (으)려고 하다, 기로 하다 Lesson
Korean Dialogues & Conversations
1.Mini-Korean Conversation | Topic : Coffee | #1
2.Intermediate Korean Convo | Topic : Amusement Park | #2
3.Korean Conversation - Grammar-Focused | Topic : Haircut | #3
4.Low-Intermediate Korean Convo | Topic : Meeting For The First Time | #4
5.Grammar-Focused (ㄹ때, 지 말라고, & 어/아야 겠다) | Topic: Kids On Their Phones | #5
6.Beginner Korean Conversation + Lots Of Beginner Grammar Covered | Topic : Deciding Where To Eat | #6
7.Beginner Korean Conversation | Topic : Drawing
8.Korean Convo | Topic : Karaoke | #8
9.Intermediate Korean Dialogue | Topic : School-Related | #9
10.Beginner Korean Dialogue | Topic: Birthday presents
11.Short Beginner Dialogue | Topic : meet up
12.Beginner Korean Conversation | Topic : Taking Pictures
13.Intermediate Korean Dialogue | Topic : The Best Way to Make Ramen
14.On The Phone With My Girlfriend
15.Sending A Text To The Wrong Person
Reading Practices & Stories
Reading Comprehension Test | Topic: small talk
Story About Friend Moving Away
Listening Practice
Beginner Listening Practice #1
Vocabulary Lists
1.Jobs & Occupations List In Korean
4.Night-Themed Vocabulary List
7.Mini-Vocabulary List - Weather
8.Common Korean Verbs > Short Video
9.Mini-Vocabulary List - Nature
10.Language Learning Vocabulary
16.Commonly Confused Korean Words 1
17.Commonly Confused Korean Words 2
18.Commonly Confused Korean Words 3
22.Korean Love Words | words & phrases w/ 사랑
23.지금 vs 이제
24.알아듣다 vs 이해하다
28.Korean & Japanese Words (part 2)
Korean Numbers
1.How To Count From 1 to 1000 using Sino-Korean Numbers
2.The Difference Between Sino & Native Korean Numbers
3.Korean Numbers Quiz > 1 to 100
4.Korean Numbers Quiz > 100 to 1000
Idioms & Phrases
2.김새다 = Ruin The Fun | Idiomatic Expression #1
3.어쩔 수 없다 = It Can’t Be Helped | #2
4.How To Say Ignorance Is Bliss | #3
6.기가 막히다 ~ “to be at a loss for words” | #5
7.기가 죽다 ~ lose confidence/less energy and feel depressed | #6
8.How To Say I Don’t Care | #7
9.말도 안돼요
11.Idioms That Are Too Relatable
12.Korean Break-Up Lines & Quotes
Tongue Twisters
1.Mokdong Royal | Short Tongue Twister | #1
2.경찰청 ~ Police Headquarters | #2
3.Longest Korean Tongue Twister + Breakdown | #3
4.3 Short & Fun Korean Tongue Twisters
5.Short Korean Tongue Twister: Moon
Korean Culture
2.Difference Between North & South Korea
Interesting Random Topics
How To Ask Questions In Korean
We’ll go over the most basic and easiest way to do it and then the most confusing, which is actually using the question words to form your own question. You should be familar with sentence structure first to understand this well. I have another post on it here.
The first way is to simply turn a normal sentence into a question by raising your intonation at the end of it. Like when you ask a question in English your voice goes up a little at the end of the sentence.
하교에 가요. (I am going to school.)
학교에 가요? (Are you going to school?)
The sentence doesn’t change, but the way you read it does. You can try it by reading these out loud or in your head above.
The Question Endings:
~ 입니까? / 습니까?
~니?
~ 나요?
The next way to ask questions is to simply attach one of these.
The formal high respect ~습니다 is never used as a question. When asking a question in this form, instead of using ~습니다 you must use ~ㅂ/습니까. ~ㅂ니까 gets added directly to stems ending in a vowel, and ~습니까 gets added after a stem ending in a consonant. You can do this with all tenses.
Past Tense: 았/었/했습니까
Present Tense: 았/었습니까 / 합니까
Future Tense: 겠습니까 | ㄹ 것입니까 / ㄹ 겁니까
When asking a question, instead of ending your sentences with ~아/어, you can end them with ~니. This is an informal way to ask a question, and you can do this in all tenses.
For example:
Past tense: 했니, 먹었니, 갔니, 이었니
Present tense: 하니, 먹니, 가니, 이니
Future tense (~겠): 하겠니, 먹겠니, 가겠니
Future tense (~ㄹ 것이다): 할 거니, 할 것이니, 먹을 거니, 먹을 것이니
You can use ~나(요) at the end of a sentence to ask a question also. It can be used to make a question sound slightly softer than the other ways to ask a question. However, ~나(요) is more often used with verbs and with 있다 and 없다.
It is possible to use this in the future tense, but it only sounds natural when applying it to the ~겠다 future conjugation. Adding ~나(요) to 이다 is typically not done, and therefore adding it to words that are conjugating using ~ㄹ/을 것이다 is unnatural.
Theres’s another ending i didn’t cover in this post : ㄴ가요? | It functions the same as -나요?
The most confusing one:
I’ll only cover the very basics in this post, but it can become more complex. Incase you don’t know the question words here is a list of basic Korean question words (What, when, where, who and why)
뭐 - what
언제 - when
어디 - where
누구 - who
왜 - why
어떻게 - how
Depending on which question word you are using, building a question can be really easy or really confusing.
Most question words are adverbs, which means it can be used/placed as an adverb in sentences. Adverbs can be used almost freely in sentences and technically do not have any specific location that they need to be used.
The most common position for these adverb-question words is before the verb. If there are other adverbs in the sentence (including the negative “안”) the question word is usually placed first. You may see these question words put at the end of a sentence as well. Remember the rule: before a verb - if you ever get overwhelmed.
Examples:
왜늦었어요?
Why are you late?
한국에 언제왔어요?
When did you come to Korea?
내 신발이 어디있어요?
Where are my shoes?
오늘 오후에 뭐할 거예요?
What are you going to do[your plans for] this afternoon?
어떻게알았어요?
How did you find out?
In Korean, 누구 has the function of a pronoun. 누구 can be used in the place of a noun in a sentence – that is, it can be used to replace the object, the subject or as a noun before 이다.
This is the same in English – as you can see in the following three examples:
Who will study Korean tomorrow? – ‘who’ is the subject of the sentence.
Who will you meet tomorrow? – ‘who’ is the object of the sentence -“you” is the subject
Who is that person? = ‘who’ is ‘that person’ in the sentence
Examples:
누구를 만났어요? - who did you see/meet?
승규 씨가 누구입니까? - Who is Seung Kyu?
That’s all for today’s post. Check Out More Korean Lessons Here! Also check out my Spring Fling Challenge.
영화 - Film
영화관 - Cinema
극장 - Theater
지금 - Now
상영 (중) - Showing/screening
상영작 - A film showing in cinemas
시간표 - Time table
예매하다 - To book/reserve
날짜 - Date
시간 - Time
얼마 - How much
배우 - Actor
보다 - To see
좋아하다 - To like
영화를 볼까요? - Shall we see a film?
어떤 영화를 보고 싶어요? - What film do you want to watch?
저는 이 영화를 보고 싶어요 - I would like to see this film
저는 이 배우를 좋아해요 - I like this actor
언제 보고 싶어요? - When would you like to see it?
오늘 저녁에 상영작 해요? - Is it showing this evening?
네, 6시 30분에 시작해요 - Yes, it starts at 6:30
표는 얼마예요? - How much is the ticket?
예매 됐어요 - It is booked
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This honorific marker should be added to verbs when speaking with someone who deserves respect i.e. parents, people older than you, teachers, doctors… When talking about yourself you don’t use this form!
(The infinitive form of ~(으)시 is ~(으)시 + 어 = ~(으)셔)
Present tense:
(Remember 다 is dropped from the dictionary form of the verb)
Verb stem ending with a consonant + 으세요
Verb stem ending with a vowel + 세요
앉 + 으세요 = 앉으세요 - To sit
읽 + 으세요 = 읽으세요 - To read
가 + 세요 = 가세요 - To go
오 + 세요 = 오세요 - To come
이 + 세요 = 이세요 - To be (이다)
Irregulars:
(note this isn’t the case for all verbs as there are some regular ones too!)
ㄷ Irregular:
Just like polite present tense conjugation (아/어/해요), some verbs have their final ㄷ dropped and replaced with ㄹ
- 듣다 - To listen
The final ㄷ is dropped and replaced with ㄹ + 으세요 =
들으세요 - 걷다 - To walk
The final ㄷ is dropped and replaced with ㄹ + 으세요 =
걸으세요
ㄹ Irregular:
The final consonant ㄹ is dropped
- 살다 - To live
Remove the final ㄹ + 세요 (since the verb now ends with the vowel ㅏ) =
사세요 - 알다 - To know
Remove the final ㄹ + 세요 (since the verb now ends with the vowel ㅏ) =
아세요 - 열다 - To open
Remove the final ㄹ + 세요 (since the verb now ends with the vowel ㅕ) =
여세요
ㅂ Irregular:
If ㅂ is followed by a vowel, the ㅂ is dropped and 우 is added
- 덥다 - To be hot
Remove the ㅂ and add 우 + 세요 =
더우세요 - 무섭다 - To be scary
Remove the ㅂ and add 우 + 세요 =
무서우세요
ㅅ Irregular:
Just like polite present tense conjugation (아/어/해요), the ㅅ is dropped but the vowels are not contracted (example below), therefore even if the final character is a vowel 으세요 should be added
- 낫다 - 나아요 (Present tense) - To get better
Drop the final ㅅ + 으세요 =
나으세요 - 붓다 - 부어요 (Present tense) - To swell/pour
Drop the final ㅅ + 으세요 =
부으세요
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진짜 오랜만이에요! 보고 싶었어요
Animal Crossing: New Horizons was finally released! We have been waiting years for this moment and couldn’t be happier now its here! We can also thank Animal Crossing: New Leaf for our friendship - without it we probably wouldn’t be such good friends, and probably wouldn’t have made this blog!
Anyway, we hope you are all having so much fun ~ in your homes ~ exploring your new islands, we’d love to see what you guys have done! Send us an ask and we can exchange friend codes and play together!
동물의 숲 - Animal Crossing (Trans. Animal forest)
모여봐요 - New Horizons (Trans. Come on/Gather round)
튀어나와요 - New Leaf (Trans. Pop out)
타운으로 놀러가요 - City folk/Let’s go to the city (Trans. Let’s visit the town/Let’s play in town)
놀러오세요 - Wild world (Trans. Come in to play)
동물들의 한국 이름! - The animals Korean name!
여울 - Isabelle
켄트 - Digby
고북 - Tortimer
너굴 - Tom Nook
콩돌밤돌 - Timmy and Tommy
낯선 고양이 - Rover
에이블 시스터즈 - Able sisters
고옥이 - Sable
고순이 - Mable
케이트 (고숙)- Labelle
카트리나 - Harriette
그레이스 / 봉팔이 - Gracie
리사 - Reese
리포 - Cyrus
부엉 - Blathers
부옥 - Celeste
도루묵씨 - Resetti (씨 is a polite name particle, meaning Mr/Mrs/Miss…)
늘봉 - Leif
파론티노 - Phineas
죠니 - Gulliver
마스터 - Brewster
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전 - Before / ago
후 - After / later/from now (in)
~에 is added as it is a time particle
저는 5 분 전에 출발했어요 - I left 5 minutes ago
저는 5 분 후에 출발할 거예요 - I’m leaving in 5 minutes from now
~기 is added to the verb stem when 전 is used after a verb
~은/ㄴ is added to the verb stem when 후 is used after a verb (은 is added if the verb stem ends in a consonant, ㄴ is added if the verb stem ends in a vowel)
직전에 - Just before
직후에 - Right after
저는 학교에 가기 전에 아침을 먹어요 - I eat breakfast before I go to school
비가 오기 전에 저는 갔어요 - I went before it rained
저는 수업 직전에 숙제를 했어요 - I did my homework just before class
영화를 본 후에 친구는 만날 거예요 - After the film I will meet my friend
그 책을 다 읽은 후에 저도 빌려 주세요 - Please lend me that book after you have finished reading it
저는 저녁을 직후에 텔레비전을 봐요 - I watch TV right after dinner
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테마파크 - Theme park
입장료 - Admission/entrance fees
놀이 기구 - Amusement park rides
타다 - To ride
관람차 - Ferris wheel
회전목마 - Carousel
롤러코스터 - Rollercoaster
동물 - Animals
줄 - Line/queue
머리띠 - Headband/Alice band
즐겁다 - To have fun
놀이공원에 가는 것은 재미있을 거예요 - It will be fun to go to an amusement park
놀이공원 같이 가고 싶어요! - I want to go the amusement park together!
입장료 얼마예요? - How much is the entrance fee?
뭘 타고 싶어요? - What do you want to ride?
놀이 기구 앞에 줄이 너무 길어서 한 시간 반을 기다렸어요 - Since the line in-front of this ride was so long I waited an hour and a half
다음에 관람차를 탈까요? - Shall we ride the Ferris wheel?
이 놀이 기구는 제가 가장 좋아하는 것이에요 - This ride is my favourite
놀이공원에 가면 머리띠 해야 돼요! - You have to wear a headband/Alice band when you go to an amusement park!
우리는 놀이공원에서 동물들을 봤어요! - We saw animals at the amusement park!
저는 오늘 매우 즐거웠어요 - I had a lot of fun today
저는 가족들이랑/친구들이랑 같이 놀이공원을 갔어요 - I went to an amusement park with my family/friends
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문법 - Grammar
동사 - Verb
명사 - Noun
대명사 - Pronoun
형용사 - Adjective
과거시제 - Past tense
현재시제 - Present tense
미래시제 - Future tense
자음 - Consonant
모음 - Vowel
받침 - Final consonant
단어 - Word
문장 - Sentence
발음 - Pronunciation
읽기 - Reading
쓰기 - Writing
듣기 - Listening
말하기 - Speaking
받아쓰기 - Dictation
반말 - Informal speech
존댓말 - Formal speech
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