As you guys study about Korean language, you might come across to many different verb ending for example
해, 해요, 하세요, 합니다, 하십니다 and more, each represent different level of speech use to indicated the level of formality of a situation.
The Korean language emphasize a lot on showing respect, thus born the
honorific system in Korean grammer which used to differentiate the level of familiarity, or difference in social rank between addresser and the addressee.
There are many way to show respect in Korean language. I will try to simplify and make sure you guys understand the basic behind this honorifics system which often brings confusion to foreigner studying this language.
Coffee is actually part of Korean culture nowadays. Most of the Koreans love coffee and you can find coffee vending machines all over cities and street. Culturally Korean always offer to treat each other a cup of coffee and it will be rude if you are having coffee all alone, which brings us to our topic in this lesson. In this lesson,
past tense will be used in the conversation.
In our daily conversation we talk about past, present and future. The
past tense in Korean language is not as hard in English with many irregular, and the rule of stating the past tense is actually quite simply. Putting verb or adjective in past tense involve conjugation by combining with
았다 and 었다.
Where is my Korean notebook? I still remember asking this to my mom as I cannot find my notebook which contains all the essential of Korean language I study. Until now that notebook is still not found and because of that I'm starting this blog to repeat everything I studied and share it with you all =)
We are going to learn about asking where is something in this lesson. Being a forgetful person and always having short-term memory loss, we are always asking "where is my cellphone?" or "where is my pencil?". This lesson will be great for you guys to learn about
preposition of place in Korean.
If you follow my lesson from start you should already learn topic marker and object marker. You are going to learn one more particle use in Korean language and often confusing for foreigner to understand:
Subject Marker.
Pretty much like the object marker, you can guess that for subject marker is place after the subject.
"가" is place if the word
didn't have a final consonant and
"이" is place if the word
have a final consonant. However, the topic and subject in a sentence may be the same sometimes so how should we know when to put topic marker and when to put subject marker.
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Finally I was able to finish this drama. I know I'm kind of outdated for its first release on April last year but I'm glad I watched this drama because this is one great drama ^^ even my parent watch this =D
Last time I had teach you guys on
how to read Korean word, but that's the basic part. This time I will teach more on the pronunciation
with detail and more advance level so be prepared =) There are generally three types of sound you use when reading Korean word:
Basic, Aspirated and Tense.
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It's no doubt time is always on our mind. Some of us might even think 24 hours a day is not enough because of the hectic lifestyle we having. Korea is like many other Asian country, where everybody seems to be busy all the time and always in rush to do something. This bring to our lesson for today,
HOW TO ASK AND TELL TIME IN KOREAN?
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 and so on ~ The numeral system play an important role in learning a language. We talk about time, price, how many, date, age, etc. So now I'm going to introduce you guys the Korean numeral system. There are two numeral system that you have to learn for Korean language:
The Native Korean numeral system and the Sino-Korean numeral system.
Release on first of July 2010,
Taeyang (태양) as hot as ever with his new album
SOLAR capture everyone's attention. I still remember I know
Taeyang when his single "Wedding Dress" is out. Love the song very VERY MUCH ^^. Also included in this album are "Superstar", "I Need a Girl (feat.G-DRAGON)", "Just a Feeling" and many more.
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How to find out Korean's occupation?? Not mind reading certainly, but asking them about it. It is one of the really good topic where we can talk about what we do for living.
If you meet a Korean people for the first time, he or she might start asking you a lot of questions like "How old are you?", "Where did you study?", "Are you married?" things like that. This is common at Korea and is a way for them to understand how they should talk to you using honorific way or casual way. Little fact here ^^
So if you want to ask the question "what's your occupation?" or answer "I work at hospital, company, etc",
HOW TO DO THIS IN KOREAN?
In this grammar lesson I'm going to teach you all the
Object Marker (를,을) and the
Difference between 에서 and 에, both really not that hard to understand. I will try my best to explain both ^^
Similar with subject marker which is place after the subject in a sentence, a object marker is place after the object in a sentence. If the word
didn't have a final consonant,
를 will be use. If the word
have a final consonant,
을 will be use instead. Pretty simple right??
From my previous post
Hello To Koreans, I have taught you how to introduce yourself. Now I'm going to explain the grammar part in this post. As I mention in my
previous post, Koreans emphasize a lot on respecting and politeness in their culture, so there exist the formal and informal way to say a sentence.
Now, there are two ways you can say
"I" in Korean:
저 and
나.
We use 저 when we are speaking to strangers, in formal situation or to elder person while
나 is used when talking to a person like our friend or someone younger than us.
저 and
나 indicates the use of formal (존대말) and informal (반말) way so choose the right one depend on the situation.
This is the first lesson to learn Korean. For lesson here I'm going to introduce you to some expression/dialog for certain situation and ways to respond to it. I hope that before you study this lesson you have already gone through
the introduction of Korean alphabets,
how to read Korean words, and
understanding the Korean sentences structure.
Speaking Korean language to Koreans will definitely leave a good impression to them. Korean people appreciated and happy when foreigner took the effort in learning their language.
So, if one day you happen to be walking on the street and you see Korean star like
SNSD - Seo Hyun or
CN Blue -
Yong Hwa (In the picture) and he/she standing in front of you,
WHAT SHOULD YOU SAY?
Of all the alphabets form words, and from words form sentences. Therefore to really understand what a Korean is really talking about, grammar and sentence structure is very important.
To tell you all the truth I don't really care a crap about grammar and sentence structure, about what is subject, object, verb, adjective and etc and I still get at least A- in my English test ( I always told everyone I learn my English from television ^^)
Back to the topic, I'm not going to discuss about grammar now because I'm going to bring up the grammar stuff on future lesson (which is the way I learn), so now I'm going to talk about
sentence structure. Now I'm assuming that all of you are doing fine in English and for English sentence structure we use the S-V-O rule.
To be a good Korean speaker is not only about learning from this blog or other sources but also practicing the language. If you at Korea now, that's great because you can try to talk and practice your Korean language with natives there.
I live in Malaysia, I'm a Chinese and nobody around me speak any Korean, therefore it will be pointless to practice my Korean to people around me as they don't understand a single Korean except "
안녕하세요" = "An Nyeong Haseyo" and "
사랑해요" = "Sarangheyo". So what should you do if you are in my condition??
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There is many way you can learn new language nowadays. You can attend class, ask someone to teach you, go for Youtube, and many other website which dedicated in teaching new language.
Seeking for the cheapest way to learn Korean language, I save money from attending Korean learning class and buy any learning tools such as Video tutorial and dictionary.
Why spend extra when we can get new knowledge for free right??
When you start learning a new language, a dictionary is very important to learn new words and the meaning of any words you came across. So here I would like to introduce a dictionary software which you can install in your PC/Laptop and start learning Korean fast and easy ^^
