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So...

I’m thinking about making one-point lesson videos where I explain a particular concept or word or whatever that you guys are having some trouble understanding. I figure it would be a great way for me to supplement lessons (I’ll still post my notes, don’t worry!) as well as interact more with y’all!

So I guess basically what I’m asking is do you think it’ll be helpful for you??? You can comment or reblog this with your answer or shoot me an ask or DM me!!

—Ana☺️

[lostinkoreantranslations]

Book #2, Lesson #11: I’m in a Glass Case of Emotion!

This part of the Where You At MV always makes me cry and since we’re talking about emotions....let’s all cry over Choi Minki’s perfection and NU’EST FINALLY GETTING THE LOVE THEY DESERVE!!!!11

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Hey guys! I’m back with another lesson!  This lesson focuses on expression emotion. But before we get down into it, let’s first get a quick overview of some of the concepts/terms we’ll be using:

Nine new nouns:

혼자: alone, myself

결혼생활: married life

하루: one day, day

귀신: ghost, spirit

공포영화: horror movie

점수: score

전쟁: war

전쟁터: battlefield

잘못: mistake. error

Six new adjectives:

외롭다: to be sad. lonely

행복하다: to be fulfilled, to be happy

우울하다: to be depressed

무섭다: to be scared

화가 나다: to be mad

화를 내다: to express anger

Three new verbs:

싸우다: to fight

화해하다: to make up

사과하다: to apologize

Two new adverbs:

이유 없이: without reason, for no reason

생각 없이: without thinking, without thought

This lesson is one of the most straightforward ones we have to date (yayyy!!!) so these notes are going to be pretty short and to the point (double yayyyy!!!).  There are two ways to express emotion:

You can express your own

You can attempt to express someone else’s

The reason why I say “attempt” is pretty simple:  As the book says, “ you can never truly know how someone feels, or their true intentions.” So in Korean, you have to speak indirectly about how someone is feeling or what their intentions may be.  In English we might say, “She is _______.”  But to do that in Korean, we’d have to use the 하다 form of whatever adjective (aka descriptive verb) that would go in the blank.  Let’s take a look at some examples!

오늘 저의 남자친구가 슬퍼핬어요.

가끔 엄마는 외롭해요.

그가 전화하서 그녀는행복해했어요.

행복했어요 is the contracted and more commonly spoken version of 행복해했어요. You can use either version, but for the sake of this lesson point, I used the full form so you guys could see it.

아이는 무서워하지 않을 거에요.

언젠간 박민수와 김고민 일본에 가고 싶어해요.

Pretty easy, right? 

Yes? 

No?

Maybe so? 

Well, in any case, the flipside is that it’s waaaaay easier to express your own emotions/intentions! All you have to do is conjugate the adjective as it is! Examples time!

영화를 재밌어서 난 행복했어.

그 노래 들어서 내가 슬펐어.

제가 친구에게 이유 없이 화를 냈어요.

너랑 싸우고 싶지 않아!

곧 화해하자.

Okay, guys, that’s all I have for this lesson! As always, please be sure to check out the book for more examples as well as extra tidbits on grammar (such as which particles go with which verbs) and lots of practice dialogue!

--Ana😊

[lostinkoreantranslations]

안녕하세요 :D i was just curious and maybe you could help ; i use memrise to help me learn korean and there’s a sentence “무엇으로 드시겠어요?” which is “what would u like to eat” but i don’t get it?? how many types of “what” are there and when do you use them? where is the word “eat” in there? ;-; i love u and your blog ❤️❤️❤️

안~녕!!! I think what’s tricking you about the question is the way it’s translated. Looking at it on a word-for-word literal translation into English, it’s understandable why you’re confused. 먹다, which we know means “to eat,” is absent but yet the translation of the question is, “What would you like to eat?” Weird, right??? Like how can it mean that when the verb for eating isn’t there???? 🧐🧐

So let’s try looking at it and translating it literally:

무엇 = what, something, anything

들다 (드시겠어요) = to have (when used to discuss food/drink, it can also mean to eat/drink)

Putting those together gives you, “What would you like to have?” That’s still a question we could ask someone in English if we were out at a café or even roaming through our fridges on a lazy Sunday morning trying to figure out what we want to eat.

Literal translations, which you’ll learn as you study Korean more, aren’t always going to work. So you have to break the sentence down for yourself and use context or any previous knowledge of certain words to help you. For example, a very common phrase you’ll hear when you’re about to eat is 맛있게 드세요 (맛있다 = to be delicious/tasty, 들다). If we translate it literally, it means, “Please have it deliciously.” That’s awkward to say in English so it gets translated into its next best equivalent, which is, “Please enjoy your meal.” If you compare the way 들다 is used in both sentences, you can see how the translation you were given for the question is still right without 먹다 being present.

There’s a several ways to say “what,” depending on the context of the conversation/sentence, but the ones I’m most familiar with and use most often are: 뭐 (which is the contracted form of 무엇), 무슨, and 몇.

Hope this helps!

—Ana☺️

[lostinkoreantranslations]

첫눈이 오늘에 왔어요. 진짜…정말 아름다워! 😍😍 나니아 같이! 내가 눈 속에서 놀고 싶었지만 일을 해야만 한다. 😭

—Ana❄️

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행복한 기운은 스스로 만들어가는 거라 생각한다. 사소한 것 하나하나에도 감사한 마음을 가지기. 좋은 음악 듣기, 좋은 영화 보기, 맛있는 음식 먹기.. 사랑하는 사람과 매일 저녁을 함께하기, 친한 친구와 사소한 잡담하기. 별 거 아닌 일상이지만 이 일상을 무탈하게 즐길 수 있는 것에 감사하다. 그리고 임신했을 때만 가능한 디라인 만끽하기. 허허