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Part 1
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As a follow up to my Hangul 101 series, I feel comfortable enough with my conversational Korean to start a new series. This series will focus pretty much on basic everyday greetings, questions, and common sayings. If you can't read Hangul don't try this just yet, go back to my Hangul lessons linked above and go through that first. You can get through it pretty quickly, don't worry! I don't want to have to romanize the pronounciation for everything in this, so it's going to all be in Hangul, thus you'll need to know it or you'll be terribly confused. I'm going to try to keep things simple without going too deeply into semantics or etymology, if you want to learn roots of words, and more vocabulary, you're better off actually taking a class.
Well without any further delay, let's get started, shall we?
[Note: if speaking casually, the rule of thumb will be to remove the 요, but don't do this unless you know them well]
Entering a conversation
Hello (usually accompanied with a bow)
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안녕하세요
[Casual form is NOT 안녕하세, it's 안녕]
Note, very rarely is it pronounced like so, you'll more likely hear a shorter condensed version that will sound more like 안냐세요. The proper way to respond to this would be by saying 네, 안녕하세요, but I've found that it's more common to just reply by saying it back, 안냐세요 with a bow.
[Casual form is NOT 안녕하세, it's 안녕]
Note, very rarely is it pronounced like so, you'll more likely hear a shorter condensed version that will sound more like 안냐세요. The proper way to respond to this would be by saying 네, 안녕하세요, but I've found that it's more common to just reply by saying it back, 안냐세요 with a bow.
What are you doing?
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뭐해요?
Obviously you wouldn't normally ask this if you're with the person but on Skype/FB/texting this is a pretty common question. Sometimes prefaced with 지금 (now) to ask 지금 뭐해요 what are you doing now?
You can answer this with some of these basic verbs [all present tense]
먹어요 eating
스타2해요 playing SC2
[show/movie]보고있어요 watching [x movie/show]
공부해요 studying
So a short conversation might go:
Q: 지금 뭐해요? What are you doing right now?
A: 지금 스타2해요. I'm playing SC2 right now.
Easy! :D
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Obviously you wouldn't normally ask this if you're with the person but on Skype/FB/texting this is a pretty common question. Sometimes prefaced with 지금 (now) to ask 지금 뭐해요 what are you doing now?
You can answer this with some of these basic verbs [all present tense]
먹어요 eating
스타2해요 playing SC2
[show/movie]보고있어요 watching [x movie/show]
공부해요 studying
So a short conversation might go:
Q: 지금 뭐해요? What are you doing right now?
A: 지금 스타2해요. I'm playing SC2 right now.
Easy! :D
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If you noticed, 뭐 is what, and can be used with other verbs to form a new questions such as
뭐 먹어요? what are you eating?
뭐 공부해요? what are you studying?
뭐 먹어요? what are you eating?
뭐 공부해요? what are you studying?
Where are you going?
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어디 가요?
어디 is where and 가요 is going. You might say this if you run into someone on campus, or on the street. Also possibly prefaced with 지금 to ask where are you going now?
A slightly different question 어디 있어요 where are you?, can also be prefaced with 지금.
You can answer this with some of these basic locations
집에 home
학교에 school
기숙사에 dorm
도서관에 library
화장실 bathroom
So a short conversation might go:
Q: 지금 어디 가요? Where are you going right now?
A: 지금 집에 가요. I'm going home right now.
Simple, right?
어디 is where and 가요 is going. You might say this if you run into someone on campus, or on the street. Also possibly prefaced with 지금 to ask where are you going now?
A slightly different question 어디 있어요 where are you?, can also be prefaced with 지금.
You can answer this with some of these basic locations
집에 home
학교에 school
기숙사에 dorm
도서관에 library
화장실 bathroom
So a short conversation might go:
Q: 지금 어디 가요? Where are you going right now?
A: 지금 집에 가요. I'm going home right now.
Simple, right?
Yes/No
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Simply, yes is 네 and no is 아니요 HOWEVER there are a TON of variations on yes, as I've learned. Yes can be 에, 엥, 예, 옝, 응, 어, 넹 (cute version), or anything sounding similar to those. Luckily there aren't as many variations with no, so anything that sounds close to 아니요 is no.
That's actually quite a lot for a first lesson, I didn't expect there to be that much;;
Try to practice as much as you can so the sentence kind of sticks with you, and then you can begin to really say the whole phrase without much thought, and then start using different verbs/places.
If you want to know how to say different verbs or places, just ask! Me or some other Korean speaker will surely be glad to help.
If there are any errors/typos in here, please let me know so I can fix them!
I'll be coming out with a second part very soon, so stay tuned for that! Hopefully you all can use this and start using Korean in everyday life!
열심히 공부해요~
Study hard!
파이팅~~~
<3 mizU
Study hard!
파이팅~~~
<3 mizU
