Talk To Me In Korean

Do you know how to say “As long as” in Korean? Learn how you can say this with various Korean expressions (-기만 하면, -(느)ㄴ 한, and -지만 않으면) and make your own Korean sentences!Lesson PDF in other languages (Participate in the translation!)Thanks for studying with us!... Continue Reading »

In this TTMIK lesson, we will introduce the verb ending -(으/느)ㄴ 데다가. By adding this ending to a verb stem, you will be able to say “In addition to -verb-...” or “On top of -verb-...”, allowing you to construct sentences such as “In addition to being smart, Kyunghwa... Continue Reading »

In the previous lesson (Level 7 Lesson 24), we looked at how you can combine the Passive Voice form with -어 있다 to express a “resultant state”. In this lesson, we are looking at a similar, yet fixed, structure using the verb 되다. Come join us as we... Continue Reading »

In a previous lesson, we looked at how passive voice works in Korean. In this lesson, we are taking a look at the structure -어 있다. You can use structure with passive voice to say that something has been put into a certain state and stays that way.... Continue Reading »

안녕하세요! In this TTMIK lesson, we will take a look at how to say “no matter whether” someone does something or not in Korean with the ending -(으)나마나 [-(eu)na-ma-da]. This is very similar to what we studied in Level 7 Lesson 7 (아/어/여 봤자), but the endings have... 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 that are based on Chinese characters, but many of them are. In this World Builder lesson, we will be looking at... Continue Reading »

As in our previous lessons, we will be going over how to make “reported speech” sentences. In this lesson, you can add a little more ‘oomph’ to your Korean reported speech by studying how to use -(ㄴ/는)다잖아요/-라잖아요. By learning to use this phrase, you’ll be combining the things you learned... 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 »

Just as in the last few lessons, this type of structure is used when you are reporting to someone what another person has said to/asked you. In this lesson, we will be looking at how to use the ending 냐고 [-nya-go] to form reported questions such as,” I... Continue Reading »

안녕하세요! In our previous lesson, we learned how to say “they say...”, or “I hear that...” in Korean in order to re-tell someone what you’ve heard from someone else. The structures used for saying these are -(ㄴ/는)대(요) and -(이)래(요). In this lesson, we are going to look at... Continue Reading »

In this lesson, let’s take a look at how to say “they say...”, “I hear that...”, or how to re-tell someone what you’ve heard from someone else. The main 2 ways to say this in Korean are (ㄴ/는)대(요) and -(이)래(요). If you studied Level 5, Lesson 17,... Continue Reading »

여러분, 안녕하세요! In this lesson, we are going to look at how you can use the endings -다니까(요)/-라니까(요) to repeat or emphasize what you’ve already said to someone who seems to have ignored it the first time. This is not a very polite expression, even by adding a... Continue Reading »

Sometimes you forget someone's name, when you were supposed to meet someone or how to go to some place. In that case, you can ask either yourself or the person you're talking to and say "What was it again?" or "When were we going to meet?" in English.... Continue Reading »

In this TTMIK lesson, we will be going over how to say “no matter how...” in Korean. By using the word 아무리 in addition with a suffix, you’ll be well on your way to forming Korean sentences with meanings such as, “No matter how delicious it is, stop eating now”... 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 기 (機)... Continue Reading »