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El cover de esta semana es de una de mis “bandas” favoritas, Offonoff. Espero que la persona que tome el tiempo para escucharlo le guste o al menos escuche la canción original. ¡Gracias por escuchar! Por cierto, perdón por la pronunciación, estoy tratando de mejorar.
Well, this week’s cover is from one of my favorite “bands”, Offonoff. I hope you like it or at least listen to the original song. Thanks for listening! Sorry for my pronunciation, I’m trying to get better.
Need help to make a cover.
Ok, so I have this song that I’ve been trying to cover but it seems that there’s no “karaoke” for it so... Can someone help me with it? I need a guitar, bass, drums and keyboard. If you play any of this instruments (or all, haha) and/or know someone who can help me, contact me or tell them to. This is the song (it’s a korean one), by the way https://youtu.be/yjWWlYvP-bs
This is just who I am
Do you know of any Korean sound effects? Like what you'd see in a webcomic.
Hmm I know쪽 kiss쉿 shhh드르렁 snoring두근두근 heart throbbing냠냠 eating (nyam nyam)엉엉 crying짝짝짝 clapping 꿀꿀 pig snort (꿀 also means honey so I thought it was funny there’s a restaurant called 꿀돼지)쾅 *crash딩동 ding dong똑똑똑 knock knock
Reading Naver Webtoons
I love reading webtoons and I wanna share some interesting webtoons which I have read since my beginners day
Beginner (High) ~ Lower intermediate
1. Penguin loves Mev
2. 오빠 왔다 ♥
3. 낢이사는이야기 ♥
4. 웅이는 배고파
Intermediate ~ Higher intermediate
1. 2015 사이 ♥
2. 윈터우즈 2017
3. 사이다 부탁해 ♥
4. 패미리 사이즈
5. 대학일기 ♥
6. 내 ID는 강남미인! ♥
7. 외모지상주의 ♥
8. 노블레스
9. 하이브 ♥
10. 공복의 저녁식사
Advanced
1. 마음의소리
Read: Learn Korean through Youtube
Updated: 10 Aug 2017
The Secret To Korean Pronunciation
at least, I think it is…
All right, yeah I’ve only been officially learning Korean for two weeks now but I think I figured out smth really important for pronouncing things right.
Wanna know the “secret”??
It’s your resting tongue position. What is that? Well, for native General American English speakers (I can’t speak on behalf of other English speakers), when we’re not talking (i.e., when our tongues are in their resting position), the tips of our tongues touch the back of our top front teeth.
But it seems to me that for Korean speakers, their tongues touch the back of their bottom front teeth.
This little change in position is what c r u c i a l l y changes pronunciation, believe me.
Your tongue’s resting position is its home base:
Before each set of sounds your mouth makes, your tongue is in that position. After each set of sounds your mouth makes, your tongue is in that position.
This means that the sounds you make will be different from the ones you’d make if your tongue had another home base, bc the journey to and from the sounds would be different.
Like I said, though, I’ve only just started learning Korean, so I don’t claim to be a Korean phonologist, but from my experience of experimenting with tongue positions for perfect pronunciation, I think I’ve got this right.
An example of how this new resting tongue postion improves pronunciation:
Say 사 and 시 while keeping your tongue in your normal position it would be to make an ‘s’ sound.
(for me, my tongue hovers behind my top front teeth, almost touching the alveolar ridge–the hard ridge right behind your teeth)
Both ㅅ’s sound around the same, don’t they? And you know they’re not supposed to–the second is supposed to have a sort of “sh” sound, according to all of the “Korean pronunciation” posts I’ve read. To make that “sh” sound you need, you’d have to make the “sh” sound instead of making the “s” sound, so your process to pronouncing 사 and 시 would be different.
But with the different tongue position, the process of making the “s” and the “sh”-y sounds are t h e s a m e.
Now say 사 and 시 while touching the back of your bottom teeth with the tip of your tongue, only trying to make an “s” sound for both
O.O
W-what was that?? Did you hear it too?? Was that a sort of “sh”-y sound while you only attempted to make an “s” sound??
Yes, yes it was. Rejoice.
That, my dear fellow Korean learners, is just one example of how tongue position matters in pronouncing Korean correctly and any language tbh, just different positions
If you are a native Korean speaker and this ISNT your tongue’s resting position or if that’s not the right way to pronounce 시, please let me know!! I’m just a beginner and don’t know anything so any corrections would be appreciated.
And if I got this right, let me know too! It would be nice to know if I did, so I wouldn’t have to doubt myself anymore lol
And to everyone else, I want to know all the “secrets” of Korean pronunciation so if you have any, send them my way!
Do you have any post abt the position of the tongue when speaking korean?
No sorry, we don’t! We might have one up in the future, though :) Thanks for your question~
Hanja, Hanja, More Hanja!
As you perhaps know, I have been doing quite a few Hanja word drills where I tackle a single hanja (sometimes more) per day. These hanja are then slowly used to build a vocabulary list. Currently I am going through what is known as Level 8 Hanja, which are according to Korea the most basic of Hanja. It is expected that most Koreans will recognize most of these Hanja.
As you might realize the vocabulary at first is minimal as I was limited by the amount of Hanja I have covered so far. However, now I have covered nearly half the level 8 hanja and slowly, but surely more words can be written with the hanja we know. The current, complete vocabulary list contains 37 words. As we go over more and more Hanja this list will surely explode. Hope you are enjoying this ever expanding Korean word list!
If you don’t know what Hanja is please read my article on it.
Current Morning Lands Hanja Vocabulary
화 - Anger - 火
화나다 - To be angry - 火나다
화내다 - To be angry - 火내다
학생 - Student - 學生
선생 - Teacher - 先生
생수 - Water - 生水
수생 - Aquatic Life - 水生
생일 - Birthday - 生日
학교 - School - 學校
선왕 - The late (previous) king - 先王
왕 - King - 王
구 - Nine, 9 - 九
일 - Day [used with Sino-Korean numbers] - 日
팔 - Eight, 8 - 八
십 - Ten, 10 - 十
서쪽 - West - 西쪽
동쪽- West - 東쪽
동서 - East and West - 東西
동북 - Northeast - 東北
북한 - North Korea - 北韓
북쪽 - North - 北쪽
서북 - Northwest - 西北
형 - Older brother (used by younger brothers) - 兄
청바지 - Jeans (pants) - 靑바지
청재킷 - Jeans jacket - 靑재킷
백곰 - Polar bear - 白곰
백일 - Clear day, clear sky - 白日
민생 - Public welfare, livelihood of the people - 民生
월 - Month - 月
팔월 - August - 八月
구월 - September - 九月
시월 - October - 十月
칠 - Seven, 7 - 七
칠월 - July - 七月
육 - Six, 6 - 六
유월 - June - 六月
한일 - Korea-Japan - 韓日
List of Covered Hanja
Find all hanja with beautiful images here.
火 – 불 화 (Fire)
生 – 날 생 (Life)
學 – 배울 학 (Study)
先 – 먼저 선 (First in order)
校 – 학교 교 (School)
水 – 물 수 (Water)
王 – 임금 왕 (King)
九 – 아홉 구 (Nine, 9)
日 – 날 일 (Day)
八 – 여덟 팔 (Eight, 8)
十 – 열 십 (Ten, 10)
父 – 아비 부 (Father)
西 – 서녘 서 (West)
東 – 동녘 동 (East)
韓 – 한국 한 (Korea)
北 – 북녘 북, 달아날 배 (North)
兄 – 형 형 (Older brother)
靑 – 푸를 청 (Blue)
白 – 흰 백 (White)
民 – 백성 민 (Of the people, the (common) people)
月 – 달 월 (Moon)
七 – 일곱 칠 (Seven, 7)
六 – 여섯 육 (Six, 6)
List of adjectives in ~적
This list is by no means exhaustive.
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낙관적 : optimistic 비관적 : pessimistic 사교적 : sociable 개인적 : personal, individual 이례적 : unprecedented, rare 성공적 : successful 양심적 : conscientious 구체적 : detailed, concrete 열정적 : passionate 감동적 : emotional 민주적 : democratic 세계적 : worldwide 보수적 : conservative 경제적 : economical 과학적 : scientific 역사적 : historical 문화적 : cultural 지속적 : continuous 순간적 : being momentary 실질적 : actual, real 기본적 : basic, fundamental 한정적 : limited, restrictive 서술적 : descriptive, narrative
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Adding ~으로 to these adjectives will turn them into adverbs. Ex: 성공적으로 (successfully), 개인적으로 (personally, individually).
Adding ~인 will allow you to describe a noun. Ex: 보수적인 정당 (conservative party), 문화적인 문제 (cultural problem).
Vocab List - Swear Words + Insults
씨발 - Fuck
병신 - Dumbass, Idiot
닥쳐 - Shut up
젠장 - Damn it, Shit
존나 - Fucking
개새끼 - Son of a bitch
보지 - Pussy
지랄 - Bullshit
꺼져 - Fuck off, Get away from me
좆 - Dick
미친년 - Crazy bitch
또라이 - Weirdo, Freak
변태 - Pervert
미친놈 - Crazy bastard
Some reading and listening resources for you, my Korean studying friends :) Please also recommend me any resources you use, especially apps, I’m hungry for Korean resources!
세바시 | 세상을 바꾸는 시간 15분) (youtube, app, website)
Korean version of TED talks. For years I’ve been jealous of my English-learning friends using TED talks to study, but no longer.
연애의 과학 | Science of Love (website, app)
“Relationship tips and psychology tests.” Articles introducing research studies on relationships, sex, breakups etc. in very easy-to-read language and with cute illustrations.
브런치 | Brunch (website, app)
Blog site with the feel of a magazine. Brunch is very publicised and has a high quality of content.
Daum blogs / Naver blogs
Just… blogs… I don’t actually use these personally but recommend me some blogs if you find anything interesting there. Learning Korean with Humans of Seoul (facebook)
Language posts about any interesting grammar points/expressions/words that pop up in Humans of Seoul interviews. The Humans of Seoul page itself is also really good for reading practice.
Yall remember my girl Raven? This her now feel old yet?
LEARN KOREAN
For all you international kpop fans out there who’d like to learn Korean (for multiple reason I guess?), I have collected a large collection of online textbooks, websites, resources, and blogs that can help you achieve your goal!
online textbooks: [ all the downloads are pdfs, no .rar files! ]
My Korean – book one
My Korean – book two
Dirty Korean
Using Korean
Basic Korean
Korean from Zero! – book one
Korean Grammar for International Learners
Using Korean: a Contemporary Use
Intermediate College Korean
Living Language Korean Course
Continuing Korean
Handbook of Korean Vocabulary
Korean Grammar in Use
Korean for Dummies
Korean Made Simple (not a download)
websites:
how to study korean
Sogang Korean Program
learn korean
talk to me in korean
lets learn korean
free korean lessons
korean for dummies cheat sheet
korean class 101
korean class 101 (youtube)
talktomeinkorean (youtube)
sweetandtasty (youtube)
seemile (youtube)
common vocabulary
useful korean phrases
grammar + vocab reference
vocab games
quizlet
Apps: [ some may only be available for iphone or android and not both so bear with me ]
pop-popping korean (iOS + android)
tengugo hangul (iOS + android)
kdrama talk (iOS only)
Neme Korean (iOS + android)
KORLINK by Talk to Me in Korean (iOS + android)
Learn Korean by Bravo Language (iOS + android)
Korean Flashcards (free on android only, $4.99 on iOS)
Learn Korean 6000 words (android only)
TOPIK One (iOS + android)
Dongsa (iOS + android)
POPYA animals & fruits + vegetables (iOS + android)
misc. resources:
korean keyboard
culture notes
text slang
crash course on honorifics
children’s books
the chosun (news in korean)
korean class 101 podcast
talk to me in korean podcast
blogs: [ most of these seem pretty active as far as i can tell ]
unyounglearnskorean
study-korean
translating korean
letstteok-korean
onestopkorean
learnkoreanwithmusic
hangeulit
learninghangukeo
way-to-fluency
snubiwriteskorean
easykorean
cassarilla
teachmykorean
HAPPY STUDYING EVERYONE!!!
this made me laugh so hard
Self Improvement Masterpost
Time Management
Waking up earlier
Stop staying up all night
Wasting too much time on a certain website?
Top 10 Reasons for Lost Time
29 Time Wasting Activites
General Time Management Guide
Creating an effective schedule for your day
How to stop being late to things
Easy to prepare healthy recipes
Make time for your hobbies!!
Making School Suck Less
Prioritization
…what if everything is a priority?
Studying methods
Strategies for students with ADHD
Strategies for students with learning disabilities
AVOIDING BAD PROFESSORS
Dealing with difficult professors
Preparing for competitive exams
Quick and healthy snacks that are good for focus
Finding cheap textbooks
Relationships and Sex
How to tell if someone genuinely likes you
Why relationships fail
Putting yourself first when you need to
Eight differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships
Know the difference in protective and possesive
10 things to know before you start being sexually active
Maintaining a long lasting HEALTHY sex life
Considering a friends w/ benefits relationship? read this!
Money Management
Are you spending too much money on ____?
10 Tips on Saving Money
Steps to take in starting a budget
Mobile apps for budgeting!
Buying a car
Tips for buying a house
…and apartment
25 Wastes of money
Even savvy savers make these mistakes
Getting / Keeping a Job
Interviewing etiquette
Creating a resume
Starting your career before you start your career
Workplace etiquette
Shitty boss?
Waking up with a hangover…
Getting ahead in the workplace
Physical Health (Diet and Exercise)
General Men’s Health website
General Women’s Health website
Gym Etiquette
Micro changes for macro results at the gym
7 foods to help trim belly fat
How many calories should you be consuming?
No gym? Try these at home work outs
Great diets for men
Great diets for women
Miscellaneous (Better you…)
Stop forgetting things
Stop cursing
Keep your car stocked
Stop smoking
Deal with the police responsibly
Love yourself
Know when to shut up (This is from a Christian outlook btw but it would probably still help)
Stop talking shit about people
Let me know if any links stop working, even if this only helps one person in a small way it was worth the effort i put into finding good sources! - Keaton
A Review of Lingodeer
I’m really excited to bring you guys another app review today!
Lingodeer is a brand new app that is designed by actual language teachers/native speakers for specifically learning the three main East Asian languages: Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. And it’s totally free! If you haven’t heard of them before, you can check them out here: https://www.lingodeer.com/
I’ve actually been wanting to review this app for a while, but the iOS version wasn’t available until just the other day (and I only own Apple devices!).
Disclaimer: At the time of writing this review, the (iOS version) app is currently build 1.0, so any of the following may or may not change going forward as updates are applied.
Unlike for my review of the Duolingo Korean course, I did not complete the entire available skill tree that Lingodeer’s app offers. I found going through the lessons that there wasn’t any need to complete the tree in the vain hopes that the course might magically get better. Lingodeer is very good right out of the gate.
Your first stop on the app is the “alphabet” section, as it should be. Like Duolingo, Lingodeer unfortunately uses a form of romanization to teach the letters (see my Duolingo review for an explanation about why that’s bad) but that’s where the similarities stop. Lingodeer presents the Hangul letters in an order that actually makes sense, and in a way where learners can understand they are actually using letters to build sounds and eventually, words. Also, stroke order! That was a delightful and welcome surprise, which will come in handy for users actually wanting to learn to write the letters properly.
Heading into the first set of lessons (the “Nationality” section of the above screenshot) the user is greeted with a list of the lessons contained in the section, and to the left side, a menu labeled “Learning Tips”. When I selected the first lesson, I was initially disappointed to see that the romanization followed me but I quickly found that there is a setting the user can toggle to switch between Hangul and romanization, Hangul only, and romanization only.
Jumping right into the lesson, the user begins learning words and grammar that are pertinent for beginners to know, which is again, something Duolingo fails at. Additionally, all the audio is voiced by a native Korean speaker, and the quality is very clear and easy to understand.
The exercises in the lessons are fairly standard for apps of this nature (match a picture to a word/sound, unscramble sentences, listen to a bit of audio and enter the answer, choose the word/grammar bit that doesn’t belong, etc) and are on the whole unremarkable. However there was a conspicuous lack of explanations about why the grammar works the way it does, why the lesson kept trying to drill -은/는 into my brain with no indication about why it was important… Until I accidentally brushed part of the screen with one of my fingers on my way to the “next” button and a small window popped up to explain the word and grammar I had unintentionally poked at! There is no indication on any of the exercises or lesson screens that the user can press the words or grammar points for tips, instead of just blindly clicking through the lesson and guessing.
Upon completing the first two lessons, I decided to check out the “Learning Tips” menu from the lesson selection screen, and found the in depth answers for all my previous questions and more were contained there. I feel like the app and users would benefit from somehow marking very clearly that this is the location to find all that information, instead of hiding it behind an ambiguous “tips” label, especially when the tips in the lessons themselves exist (invisible though they are). In my opinion this section should be required reading, especially as this app is directed towards total beginners, however even something like “grammar explanations” would be a big step up from “tips”. Putting an indicator somewhere on the lesson screen to draw attention to the fact tips are available there too would be a good idea as well.
The app also contains a review section, where the user can practice and review both vocabulary and grammar that they have covered in completed lessons, which negates the need for a separate SRS app at the very beginning stages of learning (though I do recommend it at higher levels).
And a bonus that does not pertain to the Korean section of the app itself: I encountered a bug while using the app and sent off a support email. I received a very prompt and polite response regarding it, and assurances they were working on fixing the issue. :) Lovely people over there at Lingodeer.
That all said, there are a couple things I don’t like about the app and it’s claims. First and foremost, there is no option to test out of skills or individual lessons. The app is designed for absolute beginners with no prior knowledge, yes, but being unable to test out of parts of the skill tree is discouraging for not-exactly-absolute-beginner users. Instead of having to spend the time to complete a whole bunch of lessons to get to one or two they might need, not-quite-newbies are better off just looking up the information online for a quicker answer.
Second, the listing on the app store claims that by using the app you will be at the “intermediate” level of knowledge, and the official website claims that if you complete all the lessons you will speak your target language. I find both of these claims laughable–the contents of the lessons will get the user to a mid-high beginner at best (late A2 on the CEFR scale) and the app doesn’t have any speaking exercises at all. Speaking recall can be very difficult if the learner is not actively practicing it. Remember: No one app, book series, website, or lesson set will be enough to get you anywhere near fluency alone.
But ultimately, the Lingodeer app is a very, very big step in the right direction and is everything Duolingo should have been but wasn’t. I would definitely recommend using Lingodeer along side a good set of grammar textbooks or when taking a class.
Check out the official Lingodeer site for links to the app/play store to give it a download! https://www.lingodeer.com/
Do you have another app or Korean learning source you want me to review? Send me an ask!
The many faces of 되다
되다 is one of the most useful, and perhaps most confusing, verbs you will encounter while learning Korean. If you were to ask me what it means, my fast-and-easy answer would be “to become.” However, it serves a lot of purposes in a lot of different contexts. Today, we’ll look at some of the most common of its usages.
To become
As I already mentioned, “to become” is my fast answer for whenever someone asks me what 되다 means. Let’s look at some simple examples:
호인 씨는 아빠가 됐어요. (Hoin became a father.)
이렇게 쓰면 괜찮은데 그렇게 쓰면 틀린 말이 돼요. (If you write it like this it’s okay, but if you write it like that it’s bad [lit: it becomes incorrect words].)
그는 제가 써준 편지가 힘이 됐다고 해요. (He says that the letters I wrote gave him strength [lit. became strength].)
Passage of time
되다 is also often used when one wants to refer to how much time has passed. This usage often occurs with the grammar -(으)ㄴ 지, which can be translated as “since.”
입대한 지 2개월이 됐어요. (It has been two months since he enlisted.)
아침을 먹은 지 1 시간도 안 됐는데 배가 고프네요. (It’s only been an hour since I ate breakfast but I’m hungry.)
“Leave it!”
Sometimes when you’re annoyed, you just want to tell someone that you’re done with the conversation or that you want them to leave you alone. You can accomplish this with a single exclamation:
“됐어!”
Let’s look at it in some context:
A: 다니 씨가 어제 입은 빨간색 원피스가 엄청 예뻤어. (The red dress that Dani wore yesterday was really pretty.)
B: 파란색이었는데? (It was blue, though?)
A: 아니, 빨간색이었어. (No, it was red.)
B: 빨간색 원피스는 경하 씨가 입었잖아! (Kyeongha wore the red dress!)
A: 아, 됐어, 색깔이 그렇게 중요하냐? (Oh, leave it, is the color that important?)
Permission
If you want to ask permission—or deny permission!—되다 is there for you! In this case, it is paired up with -아/어도 or -(으)면 (even if). When -아/어도 or -(으)면 is followed by 되다, it takes on the meaning of, “Is it okay if…?” when presented as a question or as granting permission when presented as a statement. Adding negation to 되다 will turn that granting of permission into refusal. Also, you can simply use “돼요” and “안 돼요” for the same meaning.
내 핸드폰을 맘대로 가져가 사용하면 안 돼. (You can’t take my phone as you please and use it.)
저 컴퓨터를 사용해도 돼요. (You can use that computer over there.)
A: 이 케이크를 먹어도 돼요? (Is it okay if I eat this cake?)
B: 안 돼요. (No [It’s not okay].)
Disbelief
Imagine an action movie, the lead hero and and his or her sidekick fighting together, when suddenly the sidekick is seriously injured! The hero cries out “No!” in disbelief and rushes to the sidekick’s side. That “No!” can be translated in Korean to “안 돼(요)!” This usage is fairly limited to negative situations.
Acceptability judgments
Sometimes you need to decide if something is up to a certain standard, or if something is suitable for a certain purpose. In this case, you can use 되다 to pass judgments on something:
이 채소는 안 돼요. 가장 신선한 것만 사용해요. (These vegetables are no good. Let’s used only the freshest ones.)
A: 음식을 충분히 준비했어요? (Have you prepared enough food?)
B: 이 정도면 될 것 같아요. (It seems like this much will be fine.)
Completion
Finally, 되다 can be used to express completion! Suppose a friend asks you if you’re done with your part of a group project. You can show them your finished portion and tell them, “다 됐어!”
A: 준비할 게 아직도 있어요? (Is there anything else to prepare?)
B: 아뇨, 준비가 다 됐어요. (No, the preparations are all complete.)
A: 오븐 안에 있는 쿠키를 좀 확인해 줘. (Please check the cookies in the oven.)
B: 아, 다 됐네. (Oh, they’re all done.)
As always, happy studying~
