In this lesson, you will learn how to request a permission to do something. Request Vocabularies As many other languages do, Korean also has many expressions for requesting. However, Korean has special conjugations to ask if ‘I’ can do something. so, ‘Can you -?’ and ‘Can I -?’ have a different phrase from each other. … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn how to ask or order someone to do in a polite manner. 세요 Imperative In the previous lesson, you learned how to make imperative sentence without changing a sentence much. 세요 imperative is more polite and nice than the basic imperative. But it becomes slightly more formal. 세요 … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn how to ask or order others to do something with 해요 imperative sentences. Ask And Order in Korean grammar Imperative sentence of Korean grammar is highly developed than other languages. Korean grammar has so many ways to order or ask someone to do something. In this lesson, We will … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn Korean Conditional Sentence with conjugation -면. Conditional Sentence With -면 Korean conditional sentence is made by postposition -면. It seems like a new verb conjugations. And, Yes it is lol. It doesn’t seem like a new verb conjugation, it is a new verb conjugation for you lol. Many … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn how to make Korean obligation sentence with ‘have to’, ‘must’ and ‘should’ in Korean. Korean Obligation Sentence English has ‘must do’, ‘should’, ‘have to’. However, They all are same in Korean. Korean language has only one modal verb for describing obligation in a sentence. Technically, Korean language doesn’t have … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn the negative form of ‘can’ which is ‘can’t’ or ‘cannot’ in English lol. a negative form of ‘can’ sounds so fancy lol. Korean can’t Korean grammar has 2 ways to say ‘can not’. One is a negative form of ‘할수 있다’ and another is an unique affix 못 for … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn conjugations to say ‘can’ and show possibilities. 할 수 있다 : Can do 할 수 있다 is a Korean conjugation which describes the possibility or the future possibility. This conjugation really shows well how Korean grammar works. ‘할 수 있다’ is ‘can do’ in English. Basic Form (하다 … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn basics of Korean numbers especially Cardinals. Korean Numbers Korean language has 2 types of number. One is based on Chinese, Another is based on native Korean. I prefer to call it PURE Korean though. Because that’s how Koreans call it. How To Use Them Both are used in different … Read more
In this lesson, You will learn how to make Korean negative sentences and understand conjugations better with them. Negative Conjugations So far, You’ve learned Korean has 3 conjugations for simple describing. It was ‘하다 (do, be + adjective)’, ‘이다(be + noun)’ and ‘있다(location / possession)’. Negative conjugations are different on each. Let’s see how different … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn how to make a question sentence in Korean and it’s super easy! Making Question in Korean Korean interrogative sentence is super easy to make with 해요 speech style. Follow next steps. Make a sentence Add a question mark at the end Done Celebrate dance Now, make every sentence … Read more
In this lesson, You will learn Korean adjective modifiers and how to use Korean adjectives to modify a noun in a sentence. Adjective is Verb in Korean grammar In conjugation lessons and a lot of tense lessons, you saw Korean adjectives work just like verbs and learned it’s called descriptive verbs. Then, what do you … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn how to make adverbs and how to use them. It’s super hard… good luck everybody… Korean Adverb Conjugation Adverbs in Korean grammar also use conjugations. Korean grammar has 4 types of adverbs. To be honest, Korean adverbs are super confusing even for Koreans. I really wanted to quit writing … Read more
In this lesson, You will learn Korean possessives such as ‘my’, ‘your’, ‘mine’ in English. Formal Korean Possessives Korean grammar has different possessives for honorific and non-honorific. You won’t have many chance to use non-honorific grammars since you are a beginner. So I won’t explain much for non honorific possessives in this lesson. Formal Possessive … Read more
In this lesson, You will learn how to say ‘that dude’. I’m kidding, and Korean doesn’t have a word ‘dude’. Anyway, today lesson will be Korean determiners. Position of Korean Determiners Korean determiner in a sentence is always placed before a noun. It’s same to English. Easy! 저 사람 That person That and This … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn Unique Korean Pronouns with honorific and a little bit of Korean culture with those. Unique Korean Pronouns Korean language has so many pronouns. I think it’s East Asian cultures but slightly different from each. You don’t need to memorize all unique Korean pronouns since even native Koreans are also … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn Korean singular pronouns and the most natural ways to address other people. Finally you finished Korean tenses and start another thing YAY. It was too long. I know. it was too long. Today you will learn Korean pronouns. Maybe you know Korean language has honorific and its is … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn the most basic uses of Korean future progressive tense. YAY This will be the last Korean tense that you learn with super basic core Korean grammar. I’m pretty sure you can express almost everything you want to say by using a tense. Of course, it won’t be so easy … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn the most basic uses of Korean past progressive tense. Past Progressive Tense Korean past progressive tense describes a thing that was happening in the past. In previous lesson, you’ve learn Korean present progressive and the way how it’s built is pretty similar to English. Korean past progressive tense is … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn the most basic uses of Korean present progressive tense. Present Progressive Tense Korean present progressive tense describes a thing that is happening right now like I’m teaching you Korean. Korean present progressive tense is very similar to English somehow. It uses ‘be’ and a modified form of ‘verb’. To … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn how Korean conjugations work with deeper understanding and what complex conjugations are. Conjugation + Conjugation If you have ever learned any language which uses conjugations in its grammar such as Spanish, you will be quite surprised Korean conjugations is on another level. Korean conjugations can be combined with another … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn the most basic uses of Korean Present Tense. You can understand this lesson easier if you read the Korean Tense Conjugations lesson first Korean Present Tense Korean present tense is the most basic form of any word and conjugation in Korean grammar especially when it’s written in 하다 speech … Read more
In previous lesson, You’ve learned that Korean grammar has so many speech styles. Today you’re learning about most important 2 style styles : 해요 and 하다. 해요 Speech Style you learned Korean with 해요 speech style and Korean grammar has many speech styles. you know 해요 speech style is most important for you. However, you … Read more
In previous lesson, you saw almost Korean sentences end with -어요. It’s an unique feature that Korean language has, called speech styles or ending. You will learn this special Korean grammar. Speech Styles Koreans can express any regional dialect, their mood or attitude that their social position has to have in the text thanks to … Read more
In this lesson, you will learn how Korean grammar makes longer sentence structures. Longer Sentence Structures Of course, You need to learn a bit more to make a long sentence structure but maybe it will confuse you a bit because Korean grammar is quite free even it seems like it has no rule. You will … Read more
In this lesson, You will learn Korean batchim (받침) system with Korean alphabet Hangul (한글)Before you start this lesson, I recommend you to learn Korean alphabet first if you didn’t learn it yet. What is Batchim (받침) Exactly? This grammatical feature is really hard to explain in other languages. It’s a consonant placed … Read more
Hangul is the Korean alphabet and blah blah blah. Yeah let’s skip all boring introductions. I’ll tell you only the important things that you must know, you must understand the differences between Hangul and Latin alphabet like a consonant can go below other letters or that you can combine 2 different vowels to make a … Read more
