kieok-kaye

Hi there! My name is Kaye. I'm working on my linguistics degree and learning Korean on the side. This is where I post silly doodles to help me remember the words I've learned.

[kieok-kaye]

안녕하세요? 오레간만이에요!

It's been a while, but I haven't stopped studying Korean! I've actually been taking the Korean course at my university, which has stolen a lot of the spare time in which I used to make doodles. I have a lot of backlogged ideas though, so stay tuned!

As evidence, here is a video project that my friends and I made for our Korean class. It's our take on the reality show Real World! We are toward the end of our second semester studying Korean, so it is written at an advanced beginner level.

I play dirty girl 방병호. My fantasic partners (and their blogs!) are:

Abba as 주호박: a kpop blog!

Brooke as 비빔밥: a Korean studyblr!

Angela as 박빈수 and 여동생: kpop and funny stuff!

Captions in English are available through YouTube and our original Korean script (with English translations, grammar, and vocabulary list) can be downloaded here.

열심히 공부하세요! -기억Kaye!

[kieok-kaye]

Hello everyone! Today's bit of vocab is a birthday shout out to Gio Sung, owner of the Korean language learning blog k-is4korean! Thank you for running such an awesome blog, it's a great resource and I've learned a lot from it.

생일 축하해요! - Happy birthday! On Gio's birthday everyone sang, which made him feel ill with embarrassment.

Also! For those of you still learning hangul, he has a free pdf dedicated to Korean consonants available here.

[kieok-kaye]

Ah! I've been gone for so long. I'm sorry to anyone to wrote me a lovely ask and I didn't respond. I will!

I enrolled in two classes taking place during the four-week winter break, so I haven't been able to get into any trouble lately. My crazy studying is the inspiration for today's word.

고시원 - study room A 고시원 is an incredibly small apartment that students rent for a few months while they are studying for an intense exam. You can learn more about them here.

[kieok-kaye]

In the post you made about the Korean seasons, there's a typo in the summer picture. You wrote 열름 instead of 여름 (the text below is right, though). >_< Just thought you should know since it's getting passed around so much...;;

There most certainly were typos in that post. I corrected it a few hours later, but unfortunately a few people had already reblogged the incorrect version and it continues to be reblogged to this day.

I genuinely do not know how to fix this. I certainly don’t want this blog to spread misinformation and I'm sorry that in my eagerness to publish that post I have done so.

Thank you for taking the time to send me this polite message~~

[kieok-kaye]

애도하다 - To mourn

We mourn the end of our time with someone we loved.

애도하다 is only used when referring to grieving after a loss of someone. It cannot be used abstractly the way the English "to mourn" can.

Here are the conjugations for this verb.

[kieok-kaye]

I can't stop dancing to FEMM today, I have all their singles on rotation~

춤추다 - to dance I remember this word because it sounds like the train noise "choo-choo," and it makes me think of people forming little dance trains at weddings.

[kieok-kaye]

So I saw this post by the lovely and hardworking Ari of korean-language-learning (if you don't already follow her, I strongly encourage you to do so). Anyway, I thought it was cute, so here we are.

콧방귀 - scoff (lit. "nose fart") The sharp nasal exhalation you make when you're scoffing at something. This is more or less interchangeable with the technical translation of 'to scoff,' which is 비웃다.

Long-winded Grammar Discussion: Also! I brought up this word in conversation with my good friend Jihye and it spawned an interesting discussion about a specific Korean grammar principle (some of you may 콧방귀 at my use of the word "interesting" in reference to grammar rules, but I am a linguistics major after all!). So, you may have noticed that despite nose being 코 and fart being 방귀, I keep adding in a ㅅ. This is not a typo~! This is an example of epenthesis, the addition of letters/sounds to the interior of a word to help with pronunciation. In Korean, the addition of an epenthetical ㅅ sometimes occurs in compound words made of two nouns where one is in possession of the other, like adding apostrophe+s in English. In our example, the ㅅ tells us that the 방귀 belongs to the 코. As I mentioned above, the ㅅ also gives us valuable information as to how 콧방귀 is pronounced. Because 코 ends in a vowel, the ㅂ in 방귀 is stressed and ends up sounding like a ㅃ. So, the ㅅ is the road marker telling us to stress the next sound. Here are some more examples of epenthetic ㅅ (under Section 6).

tl;dr The ㅅ isn't a typo, it's the correct spelling for ease of pronunciation. As usual, tremendous thanks to Jihye for answering my relentless Korean questions.

[kieok-kaye]

~~Another correction~~

Just noticed that 여름 is also misspelled in the drawing, but is correct in the additional notes. Sorry about that! The program I use to draw doesn't allow two-letter syllable blocks and I forgot to go back and fix it before publishing. It's fixed now!

Of course I'm embarrassed, but I'll tell you one thing: I will never misspell the words 겨울 or 여름 again in my life! So who's the reeeeal winner here?

[kieok-kaye]

~~CORRECTION~~

Hey everyone! Just an alert to anyone who saw the previous version of The Seasons post! It contained a misspelling of 겨울 that has now been corrected. If you liked or reblogged the previous version, it still contains the error.

Shoutout to Mr-Damchu for bringing it to my attention!

[kieok-kaye]

The Seasons

계절 - Season "Season" is a catch-all term for different periods of the year. 봄 - Spring When spring comes around, there is an explosion (bomb) of color. 여름 - Summer When summer comes along, it gets too hot to leave your room. 가을 - Fall Leaves have a lot of gall to cover my yard in the fall. 겨울 - Winter It is very cold in winter.

Edit: Corrected the misspelling of 겨울! My bad~ Edit again: Corrected misspelling in drawing of 여름. #ihadonejob

[kieok-kaye]

Don't confuse:

우리 - we 우리 is the one with 'u' and me~

오리 - duck 오리 has an 'o' (like a life preserver) to help it float in water.

[kieok-kaye]

omg, i just found your blog and I fell in love with it at first sight!!!!!

hohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoho~~~

[kieok-kaye]

I am a little baby blog with only a handful of followers, and so I am able to scope out the blogs of everyone that follows me. Because of this, I was able to come to the realization that I have some of the funniest followers on Tumblr. You guys seriously crack me up! So this one is for you~~~~

웃기다 - to be funny

This one sort of sounds like "you kidda~" if you're trying really hard (which I am), and that's a nice Sunday school response to anyone being funny. It helps if you have a Boston accent? Or British.

Here are some example sentences for 웃기다.

[kieok-kaye]

한국어를 공부하시는분이 있었군요~

[Tumblr did not alert me that you sent this message, so I have only just now seen it because someone else sent an ask. I hope this wasn't sitting there for too long! Either way, I apologize! ;^; ]

[kieok-kaye]

인생 - life

Sometimes life can feel a little insane.

[kieok-kaye]

School has begun! Story time: On the first day we had a live model in my life drawing class, everyone was dead silent after the model removed his robe. As I thought to myself, "Right now would be a terrible time to laugh," I remembered a friend's joke from the day before and spent the next two minutes trying to suppress boisterous laughter. Now the other artists think I am The Least Professional.

혀 - tongue

혀 sounds the way 'here' would sound if you were sticking out your tongue. "Where is your tongue?" "Right 혀~"

[kieok-kaye]

When I want to relax and but still study Korean, I like to watch Korean reality shows. The dialogues are natural and (thanks to the magic of Korean editors) relevant vocabulary is written on the screen pretty frequently. Recently, I've been watching Roommate and the editors just loooove this word:

어색 - Awkward

Oh for heaven's sake! That was so awkward!