The possessive adjective, 제 (je) is typically 저의 (jeo-ui). But it can be shortened to 제 (je).

Koreans really love to shorten their words!

yea seoulsista! hehe
one correction:
Keith-eun -> Keith-neun

this is because my name, when Koreanized, ends in a vowel… 키쓰… I don’t I don’t necessarily like it when my name is romanized ^^

Thank

seoulsista-neun je chingu-imnida

Max,

“제 한국어 이름은 김입니다.”

Wow, you have a Korean name now! 축하해요!

The difference between 애인 and 연인 isn’t obvious in the meanings written in the dictionary, but they have different nuances.

애인 is someone you’re dating, and someone you’re going out with and someone you love, but 연인 has more of a ‘meant-to-be-together’ kind of nuance because the word 연 in 연인 means a ‘bond’ or ‘relation’ between two people.

So it’s very common to say “this is my 남자친구(boyfriend) or 여자친구(girlfriend)”, and a bit less common but natural to say 제 애인이에요(this is my 애인), but it would be too ‘BIG’ to say “제 연인이에요.”

I see 연인 used most often in the form of ‘연인들’ which means ‘loving couples’ like in an article or in a novel or something. You’d rarely refer to someone as your 연인

I hope this clears it a bit.

Thanks Hyun Woo for your explanation!

I learned those words 2 days ago when i started watching “파리의 연인” (Lovers in Paris) .
And during the drama i heard them mention the word 애인 a few times.

So thanks for clarifying that.

Dear KoreanClass101 teachers, now that I’ve become hooked on your lessons — and the beautiful Korean language too –, I’ve been trying to get up the courage to ask you if you could be persuaded to find some (unobtrusive) way to introduce some hanja (Chinese characters) into the lessons.

Eg., perhaps by adding the Hanja somewhere in the Vocab table (without explanation)? At least those that follow the Korean equivalent of the”音読み” (on’yomi, or “original Chinese”) reading? Sorry for using a Japanese word to explain myself!

I know that Hanja is becoming less and less relevant in Korea. Yet so many of the words that I hear on KoreanClass101 still reflect Chinese roots. I don’t believe in learning ANY language by translating it into some other language, but this little bit of hanja would be a HUGE help for your many Chinese-speaking students. Just from the point of view of learning and retaining vocabulary. I PROMISE you that I will still be studying Korean, and only Korean; when I study Japanese, the Kanji is never used as a crutch, when I am reading a Chinese character used in Japanese, I “think” the Japanese word, not the Chinese word.

Will you please consider this? I am only a Newb when it comes to Korean, but you can’t imagine how it opened up my eyes last week when I purchased the KLEAR textbook on the 500+ most common Hanja still in use in Korea, and I realized just how great a help it was to a Chinese-speaker like me. And as somebody who is studying Japanese, I think that your Japanese-speaking students would be able to handle the mental gymnastics too, because kanji is still so widespread in Japan.

Going by popular movies such as “Hwang Jin-I” or “The Romantic President”, it seems that hanja is still a very natural part of Korean life, even if today, in 2007, mere recognition is the norm, rather than actually writing Chinese characters.

???

Thank you for considering this!

Best regards,
Auntie

Sindy, I think you mean Auntie-씨, we’re at KClass, not JPod!

I’m with Auntie too though.

Are you the same Auntie from ChinesePod? 你好！I’m the same maxiewawa (as if there was any other!)

Auntie 씨! Thank you for your request! I think it may be beneficial to a lot of listeners as well Those who speak Japanese and Chinese may be aware that nearly 60-70% of Korean words are actually Sino-Korean words. (You may have even been able to pick up these words from pronunciation alone ) And although studying Hanja, for the sake of learning Korean, is not totally necessary, again, it can be used as a crutch for those who are more comfortable with other languages

We do have the capability to include Hanja in our PDF’s - however, our team will have to discuss this, and weigh out the pro’s and cons.

But again, thank you for the wonderful suggestion Auntie!

Actually, I think I will move this over to the forum for anyone
Here we go: http://www.koreanclass101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1228#1228

For what it’s worth, here is an example of how hanja works in Korean:

自己[자기] self
自由[자유] freedom, liberty
自然[자연] nature; natural; spontaneity

Mwaks to all,
Auntie

Hello seoulsista. Well, you’re right. In fact, I think I heard Keith say that in more than one lesson. Hanja does still have some uses, though. For example, I’m guessing from the debate above on the difference between 애인 and 연인 that the hanja might actually be 爱人 and 元- (or maybe 恋-)人. In the PDF of the latest culture class (the one on age), the K101 author resorts to hanja in order to explain how the 만 means “full” (滿), not “10,000″ (萬).

Don’t worry, seoulsista, I don’t think K101 will ever try to overwhelm us with Chinese characters. Koreans don’t even begin learning hanja until 7th grade, I am told. So it can’t be such a huge burden (…being hopeful here… ).

Okay, gotta go now. Cheers, seoulsista…

I am going back through my newbie lessons and I noticed I didn’t have this one downloaded so I went to Itunes and it’s not in the list.

Could someone please clarify how 예요 is pronounced? I thought it should be pronounced “ye yo”, but in the audio, it’s clearly pronounced as 에요.

Thanks!