Monthly Archives: July 2010

Lesson 5: Questioning Sentences in Korean

Interrogative Sentences in Korean Basic Sentence: A is B——–A 는 B입니다. Questioning Sentence: Is A B? —— A는 B 입니까? 다 changes  into 까 Practice 1 I am a student. – 나는 학생입니다. ( na-neun-hak-saeng-im-ni-da) Am I a student? – … Continue reading

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Lesson 4: Past, Present, Future Tense for Korean Verbs

Past Tense Practice I go to school. – 나는 학교에 갑니다. (na-neun-hak-gyo-eh-gam-ni-da) If you want to change to past tense 갑니다 changes to 갔습니다 I went to school yesterday. – 나는 어제 학교에 갔습니다. (na-neun-uh-je-hak-gyo-eh-gat-seum-ni-da.) Here are some verbs with … Continue reading

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Lesson 3: Making a Korean Sentence

Let’s make a sentence. Basic sentence formation is like this: {Subject/Topic+particle}  +  {Object+particle}  +   {Verb/Adjective+conjugation} Example:  나는 학교에 갑니다. 나 is subject 는 is particle 학교 is object 에 is particle 갑니다 is verb Sentence Practice 1) A is B … Continue reading

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Lesson 2: Making a Korean Word

Now we are going to make a word. ㅇ+ㅏ+ㅂ+ㅓ+ㅈ+ㅣ= 아버지 (ah-bu-ji)  It means father. ㅇ+ㅓ+ㅁ+ㅓ+ㄴ+ㅣ= 어머니 (uh-mu-ni) It means mother. Lots of the Korean letters have final consonants. ㅎ+ㅏ+ㄴ+ㄱ+ㅜ+ㄱ= 한국 (han-gook) It means Korea. ㅎ+ㅏ+ㄴ+ㄱ+ㅡ+ㄹ= 한글 (han-geul) It means Korean … Continue reading

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Lesson 1: The Korean Alphabet is 24 Letters

A Korean letter is Hangul. ㄱ ㄴ ㄷ ㄹ ㅁ ㅂ ㅅ ㅇ ㅈ ㅊ ㅋ ㅌ ㅍ ㅎ are consonants and ㅏ ㅑ ㅓ ㅕ ㅗ ㅛ ㅜ ㅠ ㅡ ㅣ are vowels. Consonants: ㄱ sounds like g. ㄴ … Continue reading

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