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2011년 6월 16일 목요일

Hangul Chart

Comparing with other East Asian Languages, Korean languages and its character is a little simple than other character like Japanese language or Chinese language, some people say that you can learn Korean language in the morning.
To fasten your speed learning you can use Korean Chart to know all its character, Korean chart will describe relationship between character and how they will form a syllable, and this will help you a lot because you don’t have to learn in one by one, or write it one by one, you can just remembering what is inside Korean chart.
Korean chart is a list of all combination of consonant character and vowel character, and how they will be placed to make a right syllable, Korean syllable know 3 form of syllable, one is 2 block syllable which of course consist of one consonant and one vowel, and the order should consonant first and second is vowel, and sometime vowel can be placed right beside consonant or under consonant.
3 block syllable consist of consonant, vowel and consonant, vowel sometime right beside of first consonant and sometime below the first consonant, but second consonant is always below fist consonant and vowel
4 block syllable consist of consonant, vowel, consonant and consonant, so there is three consonants and one vowel, same like others, vowel is placed sometime right beside first consonant, sometime below first consonant, but second consonant and third consonant is always placed below the first consonant and vowel.
Usually Korean chart is only combination of two syllable block, so the cart is only for consonant and vowel, here are the picture :

 This is a simple Korean chart for only basic vowel and basic consonant, to learn hangul more detail, you can see at learnkorean.biz, its provide several sources and links to learn about Korean language, you can check grammar section to learn about Korean grammar, and you can check at Korean pack section if you want to download some of free audio book or free text book.

2011년 6월 5일 일요일

Korean phrases #1 – Basic Phrases

Before we discuss more about phrases, we should know that in Korean language, we have to aware and recognize the person whom we speak, and the situation at the time we speak. When we speak to our friend, or maybe someone younger than us, then we can speak with a polite form but informal, but when we speak to person who is older than us, or have a higher degree than us, like teacher, or our superior then we have to speak using formal polite form. In the formal meeting, we also have to speak in formal polite form.

Here are some basic phrases in Korean language.

Hangul
Romanization
Meaning
/
ne/ye  
Yes
 아니오
anio
No
 안녕하세요
안녕하십니까 (formal)
annyeonghaseyo
annyeonghasibnikka
Hi/Hello/Good Morning/Good Afternoon/Good Night
만나서 반가워요
만나서 반갑습니다 (formal)
 mannaseo bangawoyo
mannaseo bangabseubnida
Nice to meet you
 오래간만이에요
오래간만입니다
 olaeganman-ieyo
olaeganman-ibnida
Long time no see
 어떻게 지내세요
어떻게 지내십니까
 eotteohge jinaeseyo
eotteohge jinaesibnikka
How are you? How do you do?
 좋아요
좋습니다
joh-ayo
johseubnida  
I’m fine
 그저 그래요
그저 그렇습니다
geujeo geulaeyo
geujeo geuleohseubnida
So and so
감사합니다
고마워요
고맙습니다
gamsahabnida
gomawoyo
gomabseubnida
Thank you
 천만에요
 cheonman-eyo
You are welcome
 실례습니다
sillyeseubnida  
Sorry/Excuse me
 미안해요
미안합니다
mianhaeyo
mianhabnida 
I’m sorry
 괜찮아요
괜찮습니다
gwaenchanh-ayo
gwaenchanhseubnida  
I’m OK
 안녕히 가세요
안녕히 가십시오
annyeonghi gaseyo
annyeonghi gasibsio  
Good bye
 안녕히 계세요
안녕히 계십시오
 annyeonghi gyeseyo
annyeonghi gyesibsio  
Good bye

2011년 6월 4일 토요일

Korean grammar #4 – Adjective (형용사 )

Like a verb, adjective will undergo form changing from its dictionary form. We’ll discuss about form changing in the specific topic later. Adjective can be placed after subject to become a predicate (verb).
Here are some examples of adjective
Hangul
Romanization
Meaning
슬프다
seulpeuda
sad
나쁘다
nappeuda
bad
크다
keuda
big
작다
jagda
small
친절하다
chinjeolhada
friendly
쉽다
swibda
easy
아프다
apeuda
pain

Examples in the sentence :
This night is cold
오늘밤은 추워요
oneulbam-eun chuwoyo

My mother is beautiful
어머니는 정말 예뻐요
nae eomeonineun jeongmal yeppeoyo

Korean grammar #3 – Verb (동사)

Verb in Korean dictionary will do some form changing when it is used in the actual, this changing depend on context and when the sentence is being used, for example verb that has activity which is held in past, will have different form changing with verb that has activity which held in the future, this verb changing will be discuss in detail later.

Verb position in Korean language is different with verb position in common language, usually common language like English, America, will place verb in the middle of subject and object, but Verb in Korean will place in the end of sentence and between subject, object and verb will be connected by specify particle depend on the context of sentences.

This is the simple Korean sentence form
Subject + Object + Verb

Usually in the Korean sentence, when the subject refers to ‘I’, it will disappear and will not be spoken.
Hangul
Romanization
Meaning
보다
boda
to watch
기다리다
gidalida
to wait
자다
jada
to sleep
사다
sada
to buy
읽다
ilkda
To read
쓰다
sseuda
to write
먹다
meokda
to eat

Example in a sentence :
I learn Korean language
내가 한국말을 공부해요
naega hangugmal-eul gongbuhaeyo

Take the bus
버스를 타세요
buseureul taseyo