Korean language asks (2^^)

List of questions for Korean learners you can use to practice writing! Send an ask with any of the words in bold. I’ll send some questions from my personal blog to anyone who reblogs. 🙂 Also tag it with #koreanlanguageasks so that other people can practice reading your answers! Question inspiration from here and here. Enjoy!

명사: 행복하게 하는 10가지. (List 10 things that make you happy)
동사: 어떤 방법으로 한국어를 공부하는 것을 좋아하나요? (What’s your favourite way to study Korean?)
형용사: 형용사를 많이 사용하면서 집에 하나의 방을 묘사해 보세요. (Describe a room in your house using a lot of adjectives.)
문법: 한국어에서 가장 좋아하는 문법이 무엇인가요? (What’s your favourite Korean grammar point?)
발음: 발음이 아주 어려운 글자가 있나요? (What’s a sound you find hard to pronounce?)
인용: 당신에게 중요한 인용구 중에 하나를 번역해 보세요. (Try translating one of your favourite quotes.)
책: 당신이 책을 쓴다면 어떤 책을 쓰겠어요? (What kind of book would you write?)
사람: 아는 사람 중에 누구와 가장 친하나요? (Out of all the people you know, who are you closest to?)
음식: 가장 즐겨 먹는 음식은 뭔가요? (What food do you eat most often?)
시간: 여가 시간에는 무엇을 하나요? (What do you do in your spare time?)
장소: 지금 살고 있는 곳을 좋아하세요? (Do you like where you live now?)
일: 당신이 하고 있는 일을 좋아하세요? (Do you enjoy your job?)
습관: 좋은 습관과 나쁜 습관은 무엇인가요? (What are your good and bad habits?)
옷:어떤 스타일을 즐겨 입으세요? (What style clothes do you wear?)
색깔: 색깔에 따라 기분이 달라지나요? (Do colours affect your mood?)
성격: 어떤 성격을 가진 사람을 가장 존경하나요? (What characteristics do you most admire in people?)
행동: 가장 짜증나게 하는 사람들의 행동은 무엇인가요? (What are some of the things people do that annoy you?)
관습: 한국의 어떤 관습을 좋아하며, 그 이유는 뭔가요? Which customs in Korea do you like and why?
계획: 미래에 대한 계획을 이야기 해주세요. (Tell me about your plans for the future.)
감정: 슬프거나 긴장할 때는 어떻게 하나요? (What do you do when you are sad or nervous?)

Would you please share your experiences or tips on taking notes of textbook or other resources for learning Korean? Thank you very much!

Hi! I’m afraid I might not be the best person to ask because I’m not good at note-taking. If you like note-taking I’d ask some langblr/studyblrs because those guys are pro!

I’ve never taken notes on paper because I like to go back and edit/add to them, and I like to be able to find what I’m looking for easily but don’t want to spend time organising notes haha. I started just writing them on a word document, and then had the idea to put them on this blog instead so it would be even easier to find what I need (through tagging). So now every note I’ve ever taken is on this blog..

Hi~ I am the one who asked about your usual studying schedule. Thank you so much for your sincere answer. Would you please share a little bit about attending a formal class versus self-study? I am just confused to make a decision… Actually I prefer to self-study more as it’s free to study whatever I like. But I am a bad-organised and low self-discipline ability person. Please advise me. Thank you so much and sorry for writing so long. Best wishes.

Thank you for asking! So the only time I’ve attended classes was for one semester at Sogang KLEC. At that time I had already self-studied for around 3 years, and I found that the grammar I had learned was way ahead of what we were taught in class, but my listening skills and confidence speaking were way behind. The people in my class who had studied at Sogang since level one had learned in a much shorter time than I had. After one year studying Korean I learnt a lot and could read and write well but I could not speak or listen at ALL. So classes definitely have advantages in that they give you opportunities to practice, review, do activities, check your level, get feedback from teachers etc. which are all great!

That being said, I prefer self-study way more and like to study whatever I like as well :). I was bored in class and wasn’t motivated to do homework or review vocab or whatever. My advice to stay motivated and organised when self-studying is formal language exchange! This doesn’t mean just free-talking or online chatting with people but setting up regular times to meet every week with other people who are serious about studying. You can check and give feedback on each other’s writing, do speaking and listening activities together, review what you’ve learnt that week by specifically practising those things, or whatever works for you both.

I’m also interested in this because I always wondered whether I should go to classes before. If anyone else wants to share their experiences of self-study/classes please do!

Hello!! I’m having a summer job in graphic design starting next week and (i dont know if you take requests like these but if its okay) i would love to know a list of words about art and design in korean such as ‘design’ ‘paintbrush’ ‘paint’ ‘digital’ etc ^^ thank you so much in advance!! <3

Hi! I’m sorry I don’t really have time to do this so I don’t take requests, and also because this blog is just for my personal notes not for teaching others. You’ll be able to find these words easily in a Korean dictionary like Naver or Daum though and there are also often already list vocabularly for certain topics, for example I googled “korean vocab art” and found this link, hopefully some of these words will get you started! 🙂

Bye is 안녕, and hello is also 안녕? Is that correct? I know I could just use 안녕하세요 but I’m speaking to people I’m close to.

Yes, 안녕 means both hello and goodbye. It’s just a shorter version of both expressions. 🙂

안녕 originally means “peace” so
안녕하세요(?) (hello) = be at peace/are you at peace?

안녕히 가세요/안녕히 계세요 (goodbye) = go in peace/stay in peace

can i ask you about the jeollado accent? i dont hear difference from the ‘normal’ seoul accent ;s whats the difference?

Okay I’m no expert or anything but it’s similar to regional accents in any language, people from different areas just use some different words, pronunciation, intonation, and grammar. However, they are considered dialects rather than just regional accents because the history and geography of Korea means they are very different and because Seoul dialect was made the ‘standard’. I can rarely hear the difference when I just hear people speaking either just like my Korean friends struggle to hear the difference between regional accents from the UK. further reading

I loveeeeeee the satoori lessooon 사랑힙니다잉(?) 😂🙊🙆🙆🙆🙆

Haha I’m glad you like those notes :). One of my boyfriend’s friends speaks in satoori and I had no idea what he was saying so I had to look up some endings!

I use how to study korean site tooo,its amazing, which lesson are you on?

I’m not actually sure because I’ve never worked through the lessons in order I’ve just looked up the lessons for specific things. I’ve completed all of the TTMIK curriculum though, although I usually can’t remember all of the lessons so I often have to look at my notes on this blog to remind myself. 🙂

재밌네요! 세르비아 에서 왔어요. 작은 나라. 여가시간에 뭐하세요? -양베추 anon

한국어 공부해요 ㅋㅋ 아니면 텀블러를 하고 미드 보고 친구나 남자친구랑 시간을 보내요. 양베추님은 뭐하세요?

I’m in loveeee with your vocab posts :D

Thank you!! They’re usually a bit random but I’m glad you enjoy them 🙂