Tag: asks

idk if this will help you out, but I attended sogang last fall and once during class we talked about how much my classmates payed for rent; the cheapest was about 420 000 and the most expensive, a goshiwon was about 700 000, right by the sinchon station. i lived in the dorms and that went for a little over 300 000 a month basically. i personally dont think 400 000 a month is bad.

Yeah it seemed about the average price especially for a room like this, and it’s nice being so close to the school. Thanks for the information 🙂 

I did pay 200 000 wons for the key money (had to check my contract to remember xd). My roommate/floormate pay a little more so her rent was less expensive. I stayed in this one for one year before moving out. It was just in front of Sogang KLEC, you know where Paris Baguette is in front of the north entrance? Well I lived in the building next door!

Definitely worth it since you were there for a year. Yeah I know it! It must’ve been much nicer to have an apartment than a goshiwon 🙂  

After attempting to learn Korean, I’m using How To Study Korean, but besides that and Talk To Me In Korean, what other websites/sources do you use to study and learn?

Hi, if you mean for learning grammar then I’ve also used the websites Berkeley intermediate Korean, Korean Wiki Project, Korean Grammar Dictionary. Honestly I just type what I want to learn into google and look at all the pages that come up there’s usually other websites and blogs as well. 

For practising writing and language exchange: lang-8, hinative, hello talk, italki. I also like youtube videos, mostly TTMIK’s videos. 

I’ve posted most things on my blog before! Here are some links: resources, listening practice, reading practice.

How do you manage to remember Korean words? I can’t seem to remember them and I hate mere memoirzation :( do you have a good workbook recommendation?

I don’t remember them haha. I hate memorisation too, learning vocab is so boring and is one of my biggest weaknesses! My advice is to try and use them in producing language as much as possible so that you can remember them in context. Usually I make a note of new words i’ve learnt on my desktop or in a notebook and then i refer to that to try to use them as much as possible in conversation. 

Or when you learn new words you could practice putting them into sentences on lang-8 so you learn by using them. Also quizlet is a flashcard app/website but it also produces some tests with the cards and practice spelling and match the word games etc. which might be more interesting for you. 

Ive heard on shows people use 귀엽다 without changing it to 귀여워(요) why is that? Are there times when you retain the dictionary form of a word in speech?

letstteok-korean:

The reason for that is the fact that adjectives (I believe) can be said as its original form when speaking informally to someone. 

So in this case, you would only use 귀엽다 when speaking to someone close to you or younger than you. 

Every word is able to be configured into formal, informal and so on. 

The narrative plain tense (action verb)~ㄴ/는다 (adjective verb)~다 can be use to in informal speech to narrate a present action:

나 간다 = i’m going/leaving

Or as an exclamation:

너무 귀엽다! = it’s so cute!
우아 예쁘다 = wow, she’s pretty.
아 좋다.. = aah, this is good..

What made you want to start learning korean/how long have you been learning/do you find it difficult? I’m starting my learning journey soon because my boyfriend is Korean and I want to take part in his culture but I’m afraid I won’t pick it up :(

I wanted to learn a language so i didn’t get out of ~study mode~ over the summer and i wanted to become an English teacher abroad so i did some research into different countries and found that Korea has good opportunities for teaching. I learnt hangeul and some beginners grammar and have loved it ever since! It’s difficult, for sure, but it’s also been incredibly rewarding. It’s been almost 3 years.

That’s amazing! Don’t worry too much about picking it up, especially since you can practice with your boyfriend. The best thing is to really enjoy your studying and to become comfortable making mistakes so you can practice actually using the language as much as possible. Becoming able to communicate with people and exchange our cultures has been wonderful, so I’m sure you’ll have a good experience and will learn well. Good luck with your studies and I hope you enjoy it!   

Can you please tell me what 한국말 잘하시네여 means?

So I don’t normally do translations or anything but this is a really common phrase that’ll come up in language exchange and it confused me as well to begin with.

It means “You speak Korean well.” 

한국말 = Korean (lit. Korea words)
잘 = well
하다 = to do
시 = honorific verb suffix (e.g. 주다 -> 주시다 -> 주세요)
~네 = expresses surprise
~여 = just a way of typing ~요