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Open: Level 4 Lesson 30 / Sentence Building Drill #2

Level 4 Lesson 30 / Sentence Building Drill #2

By Kyeong-eun Choi on March 21, 2011
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안녕하세요! This is the second Sentence Building Drill (문장 만들기 연습) lesson! In this series, we will look at how you can expand your Korean sentence building skills by adding or replacing certain words in given sentences. All the “key” sentences that are used in these lessons are composed of grammar points that have previously been introduced through our lessons. This series will be a good opportunity for you to review what you have learned in the past and also to learn some new vocabulary! Have fun studying!

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Open: Level 4 Lesson 29 / to gradually/eventually get to do something / -게 되다, 하게 되다

Level 4 Lesson 29 / to gradually/eventually get to do something / -게 되다, 하게 되다

By Hyunwoo Sun (선현우) on March 17, 2011
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안녕하세요! Sometimes, even if you hated something at one point, you might “start” liking it. Sometimes, even if you weren’t planning on doing something, you “get to” do it or you “end up” doing it. In Korean, the structure -게 되다 is used to express these meanings. Listen in to find out more about this grammatical structure and leave us comments with your own sample sentences!

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Open: Level 4 Lesson 28 / to become + adjective / -아/어/여지다

Level 4 Lesson 28 / to become + adjective / -아/어/여지다

By Kyeong-eun Choi on March 14, 2011
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안녕하세요! The spring is around the corner! The weather has become warm these days in Korea. Do you want to know how to say that in Korean? In this lesson, we are going to look at how to say “to become + adjective” in Korean. Studying Korean has become fun after listening to this lesson!

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Open: Level 4 Lesson 27 / I think … (+ future tense) / -(으)ㄴ/(으)ㄹ/ㄴ 것 같다, 한 것 같다, 할 것 같다

Level 4 Lesson 27 / I think … (+ future tense) / -(으)ㄴ/(으)ㄹ/ㄴ 것 같다, 한 것 같다, 할 것 같다

By Hyunwoo Sun (선현우) on March 10, 2011
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안녕하세요! In our previous lessons, we have learned how to make noun groups in various tenses. In this lesson, we are going to look at how to say “I think” or “it looks like” in Korean using those noun groups, including the future tense. We talked about this in Level 3 Lesson 9 regarding the present tense, so if you want to go review, please click here.

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Open: Level 4 Lesson 26 / -(으)ㄴ + noun (past tense noun group) / -(으)ㄴ + 명사, 한 것

Level 4 Lesson 26 / -(으)ㄴ + noun (past tense noun group) / -(으)ㄴ + 명사, 한 것

By Hyunwoo Sun (선현우) on March 7, 2011
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안녕하세요! In our previous lesson, we looked at how to make future tense noun groups using the verb ending -(으)ㄹ before nouns. In this lesson, we are looking at how to make “past tense” noun groups. Listen in to find out how to use the “-(으)ㄴ + noun” form in natural context!

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Open: Level 4 Lesson 25 / -(으)ㄹ + noun (future tense noun group) / -(으)ㄹ + 명사, 할 것

Level 4 Lesson 25 / -(으)ㄹ + noun (future tense noun group) / -(으)ㄹ + 명사, 할 것

By Hyunwoo Sun (선현우) on March 3, 2011
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In Level 2 Lesson 14 and Level 2 Lesson 19, we looked at two different ways of changing a verb into the noun forms. They were -기 [-gi] and -는 것 [-neun geot] and they both express the meaning of “the act of doing something” or the verb in the “-ing” noun form.

In today’s lesson, we will look at how to make and use “future tense noun groups”.

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Open: Level 4 Lesson 24 / much more, much less / 훨씬

Level 4 Lesson 24 / much more, much less / 훨씬

By Hyunwoo Sun (선현우) on February 28, 2011
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In Level 2 Lesson 21 and Level 2 Lesson 29, we looked at how to say “more” and also how to say that something is “more + adjective + than something else”. In this lesson, we are looking at how to say “much more + adjective + than something”. Listen in to find out how to say it and make sure you try making some sample sentences on your own!

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Open: Level 4 Lesson 23 / Word Contractions – Part 2 / 어떻게/어떡해 – 그렇게 하세요/그러세요, 축약형

Level 4 Lesson 23 / Word Contractions – Part 2 / 어떻게/어떡해 – 그렇게 하세요/그러세요, 축약형

By Kyeong-eun Choi on February 24, 2011
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In this lesson, we looked at how the subject markers are contracted to shorter forms and be attached to the previous words. Listen in to find out how you can use word contractions wisely to make your Korean sound more fluent!

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Open: Level 4 Lesson 22 / Word builder 5 / 장(場)

Level 4 Lesson 22 / Word builder 5 / 장(場)

By Hyunwoo Sun (선현우) on February 21, 2011
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Welcome to another lesson in the Word Builder series. In the Word Builder lessons, we introduce letters and words that work as building blocks of the Korean vocabulary. They are not necessarily all Hanja words based on Chinese characters, but many of them are.

Hope you enjoy this lesson, and we are looking at the word “장” [jang].

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Open: Level 4 Lesson 21 / Spacing Part 2 / 띄어쓰기

Level 4 Lesson 21 / Spacing Part 2 / 띄어쓰기

By Hyunwoo Sun (선현우) on February 17, 2011
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In a previous lesson, we looked at how spacing works in Korean. In this lesson, we are going to look at some examples of expressions that can mean two different things depending on whether they have spacing in the middle or not. Listen in to find out what those expressions are and be sure to practice with us by making sample sentences on your own!

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