Tag: asks

Hii! I was wondering how do I understand if a person is talking about me or themselves? For example if i’m talking to girl and she says “예뻐요” how do i know if she said “i’m pretty” or “you’re pretty”? And i also know that it’s better not to use 너. Sorry this is a stupid question but that’s really confusing to me! Have a good day!! :) Ps. I’m sorry for my english!!

Hi~ I have this exact same problem so I’m afraid I can’t help! I often have to ask people who the subject of their sentence was :(. I wonder if Koreans ever have this problem when they speak to each other or otherwise how they tell who the subject is when it’s not clear by context haha.   

Does anyone have an answer for this?? 

Hi I was wondering if you could tell me the difference and when to use one or the other between 짓다 and 만들다 as they both can mean make I believe. Thanks!

I’m not sure about them either! I always remember that 짓다 is used with 밥을 and 집을 but not sure about other usages or if there’s a rule about it. I’d recommend looking at lots of example sentences and asking native speakers on lang-8 or hinative, and please tell me if you get a good answer. 😛

It’d be great and so helpful if you have like that “abc” and han-gul pronunciation to help me improve my korean language. I have Koreans friends, and I’d love very much to be able to speak han-gul rather than English language. Pls and thank you.

Romanisation? There is romanisation in the PDF files for TalkToMeInKorean lessons if you want to use that whilst you’re memorising the pronunciation. It’s much better to read without romanisation once you’ve gotten used to hangul though! 

Here are some lessons on hangul: HowToStudyKorean, KoreanWikiProject
and videos: KoreanClass101, TalkToMeInKorean
If you take some notes and keep practising you will remember the hangul pronunciation soon~. 

I need some advice to writing vocabs on my notebook. I bought a new notebook but dont know how to list the words. I need some idea about the design this notebook. I am learning Korean language and i like cute writings~ HAGD ♡

Hi~ Sorry I don’t have many ideas about this because I don’t use notebooks for vocab. I did once see some advice that said you could put inserts for each letter into the book like an address book so you can organise the words by letter. Maybe you can check out some ‘studyblrs’ for ideas! I like the Korean studyblr hanguk-eo. 🙂

Ok thank you, the 1st is already answered.^^ so I had 2 sentences: “whose magazine is this?” & “It’s mine.” In the 2nd I wrote 제 이것이에요, but in the answer key was: 제 것이에요. But why? (& are there rules for 것- when talking about possession?) Thank you xx

Ah~ 것 means ‘thing’ and 이것 means ‘this thing’ (그것,

저것 = that thing) so 제 이것이에요 = it is my this thing (wrong) and 제 것이에요 = it is my thing (right). 🙂

can you tell us which sites or course books you used? thank you

I used the TalkToMeInKorean and HowToStudyKorean lessons and later the Berkley Language Site. These sites will give you a strong foundation in grammar and basic vocabulary. 

Lang-8 for writing practice and meeting language exchange partners (this is very important!) also the HelloTalk app and sharedtalk.com.  

Honestly I learnt most by just chatting to people and googling grammar points I didn’t know which came up in conversation, this usually led to explanations on the sites mentioned above and also koreanwikiproject, sydneytoseoul and koreangrammarproject which are all very helpful. 

Here are some other resources I’ve used.