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.
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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.
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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.
Continue from the last lesson where we already go through the
Introduction of Korean alphabet, now we shall proceed to next - to read the Korean words!!! Getting excited??
Generally Korean word is combine with this pattern:
1. Korean word always start with first consonant, follow by vowel, and follow with final consonant if more.
2. Always read Korean word from left to right, top to bottom.
This is the first step of learning Korean, that is to learn how to read Korean words. So in this post I'm going to introduce you all the basic in reading the Korean alphabet.
For your information I learn Korean from a TV show "Let's Speak Korean" which was broadcast at Korea, to teach the foreigner how to speak the native language there. I manage to have the copy of whole series - 270 episodes of the show and I'm really excited to start learning the language. After watching the first episode I was stun because the show show only Korean words with no romanization/spelling of the words. That's when I started to learn the Korean alphabet.
