안녕하세요! This is the 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... Continue Reading »
In this lesson, we are going to look at how to say “sometimes I do this, sometimes I do that” or “sometimes it’s like this, other times it’s like that” in Korean. In order to say this, there are a few things you need to know. First of... Continue Reading »
When you want to say something like, “it depends on the situation”, “it depends on the person”, or “it depends on how soon you finish this”, you need to use the structure -에 따라 다르다 [-e tta-ra da-reu-da] or -마다 다르다 [-ma-da da-reu-da]. This is quite different than the verb... Continue Reading »
In our previous lesson, we learned how to use -(으)ㄹ 줄 알다 to say “to think/know that something will happen”. This sentence ending, however, can be also used to express “can”, “to be able to”, or “to know how to”. The same meanings can also be expressed through -(으)ㄹ 수... Continue Reading »
Hello everyone! Have you ever been watching a K-drama or movie and heard a character say something like, “이렇게 비싼 줄 몰랐어요” (“I didn’t know it was this expensive”) or “제가 뭐라고 말할 줄 알았어요?” (“What did you think I would say?”)? Study this lesson with 현우 and... Continue Reading »
Have you ever found yourself wanting to express the ease of difficulty of doing something in Korean? Perhaps you’ve gotten a new high-tech Korean cellphone and want to say, “this is difficult to use!”, or you are super-tech savvy and want to show off by exclaiming “This is easy!”
안녕하세요! Sometimes when you want to add emphasis to an action or state of something in English, you add more stress to the verb or by adding a variation of the word “do” in front of the verb. In Korean, however, there is a specific verb ending as well as... Continue Reading »
Welcome to Part 2 of the Passive Voice lesson! In Part 1, we learned how sentences in the Passive Voice are made in general, and in this part, we will be looking at how the passive voice in English and in Korean differ from each other. Don’t worry,... Continue Reading »
안녕하세요! 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. In this World Builder lesson, we will be looking at how 무... Continue Reading »
In this lesson, we are taking a look at how to make sentences in the "Passive Voice" in Korean. This will be covered through two parts and this is Part 1 of the Passive Voice in Korean lesson. For Part 2, please check out Level 6 Lesson 23!What is Passive... Continue Reading »
안녕하세요! This is the 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... Continue Reading »
Remember how to say “to become + adjective”? Some descriptive verbs in Korean used so commonly in this manner that they are almost used as independent words. Let us take a look at some of those words and learn how to say “to improve”, “to change”, “to increase”,... Continue Reading »
Saying “or” to link words or sentences is very simple in English, but isn’t as simple in Korean; it all depends on what part of speech you are linking that makes the translation vary. In this lesson, we are taking a look at a few of the various... Continue Reading »
안녕하세요! In this lesson, we will look at the commonly used verb ending, -거든(요). It has a very subtle meaning, and when used correctly and appropriately, it can make your Korean sound much more natural and fluent. Learn how to use this ending with teachers 현우 and 경은!
In this lesson, we are going to be taking a look at the suffix -겠-. This suffix is used a lot in everyday Korean, but is often confusing or not understood well by Korean language learners because of the various meanings it can take on. Listen to this... Continue Reading »
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