Friday, April 20, 2012

(1) Let's learn Korean

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In this section, you will learn the basic Korean alphabet (14 consonents and 10 vowels).
After watching 3 videos, you will understand the structure of Korean letter, and should be able to read & write your name in Korean in 5 mins.

How Korean works? (beginer's essential)

(1) This video shows you how Korean alphabets sound like English letters and demonstrates  how one consonant + one vowel to make one syllable.


(2) These two videos show you how to pronounce/read Korean within 15 minutes without having to know the meaning. (How cool is that!).

                                         PART 1

                                         PART 2


(3) This flash dictionary comes with a female and male voices per each word, you will learn to read, listen, speak and understand the meaning to satisfactory level. (provided by Indiana University).
click here: http://www.indiana.edu/~koreanrs/hangul.html



Now you can move to (8) Let’s Speak everyday Korean to learn and practice some basic conversation.

Korean Syllable Table: how to read and say basic Korean syllable (combinning 14 Consonants and 10 Vowels).


(4)
Where to place Vowel in syllable? remember each syllable has only one vowel.
· Vertical Vowel go to right side of Consonat.    (ㅏ,ㅑ,ㅓ,ㅕ,ㅣ) 
                              example, 감사합니다
· Horizontal Vowel go underneath of Consonat.  (ㅗ,ㅛ,ㅜ,ㅠ,ㅡ) 
                              example, 고구려


(5)
Practice (under construction)
Try to say it loudly & write these Korean words in your book.
1 커피(keo pi - coffee)
2노트북 (no teu buk - notebook)
3한국어 (han gug eu - Korean)
4신문 (sin moon - newspaper)
5케이 팝 (kei pap - Kpop)

(6)
Write/practise names in English then Korean words in your book.
1 Your name
2 Your friend's name
3 Your father's name
4 Your mother's name
5 Your brother/sister's name


(7)
Romanization of Hangeul can be found at The National Institute for Korean Languages website. I strongly suggest you to master Audio Supported - Korean Syllable Table than romanization.

(8)
Let’s Speak everyday Korean (10 minute Lesson)
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안녕하세요? 처음 뵙겠습니다. 저는 ~ 입니다.   Hello? Nice to see you. My name is ~.
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무슨 일을 하세요. What do you do for living?
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지금 몇시예요?
What time is it now?
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어디에 있어요?   ~위에 있어요.
Where is it? It’s on the ~.
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(past tense) 하다/했어요  마시다/마셨어요 먹다/먹었어요 do/did  drink   eat
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앉으세요. Saying polite request /command form:  Won’t you sit down?
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~ 싶어요. (desire)
Want/wish to
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(Future tense) 내일 할거예요?
What are you going to do tomorrow?
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김치 좋아해요?  , 맵지만 맛있어요. Positive 지만 Negative.
Yeah, it’s delicious but spicy.
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어디가요?   ~하러 가요. To do something
Where are you going? I am going ~ to do ~.

















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