Do you think you can practice these with some Koreans in your neighborhood?

존, haha. Does anyone else in your family study Korean too?

선현우, nope I am the only one.

I’m confused :

I’ve just read the PDFs and looked at the video vocabulary, and there are orthographic discrepancies between the two. While I guess 자하철 in the video vocabulary (for 지하철) is just wrong, what is the correct spelling for left : 왼 (PDF) or 왠 (video vocab) ?

존,
:-) 그래도 계속 연습하세요~~~!! 우리랑 연습해요!

Jacqueline,
Hahaha it’s amazing how you got all of the lines. -용/-염/-여 all those endings are only in written form, and rarely spoken, unless you’re in your teens and want to just sound cute along with friends. But a wider range of peopple would *write* that way if they don’t speak that way, because those endings spice up the sentences a bit.

But … hehe. Those endings are very easy to use once you’re familiar with all the other *usual* usages of Korean words Don’t worry, but you can try some of them yourself. For example 안녕하셈 instead of 안녕하세요. But you would sound either like a VERY fluent non-native speaker of Korean or a Korean girl… hehe.

PetiteClaire,
I hope they will give you a chance to practice you Korean instead of just pointing at it right away

exactly, jeff(javis)

And the further away something is from the person,
the long ‘저’ will become … hehe..

저기 (close)
저어어기 (a bit far)
저어어어어어어어어어어기 (very far)

;-)

James, hahah
Yeah most people don’t try to speak too much Korean when they meet non-native Korean speakers, and especially they are not living in Korea… but I guess the people you met were very very glad that you spoke Korean.

Do you like 누룽지? My father loves it. No wonder it was a difficult explanation to understand… I can’t think of a way to explain 누룽지 in easy Korean words… hehe..

말하는 필요가 →말할 필요가 ?

The easy part of asking where something in a store is forming the question. The hard part is knowing what it is that you are looking for is called in Korean I had to pantomime and give roundabout descriptions of what I wanted on more than one occasion when my vocabulary failed me during my stay in Korea. The lesson is to check your dictionary, and learn to think on your feet by practicing your Korean speaking.

If I can work up to this lesson, I will practice it with Koreans! I’m still around Newbie #12. I have now found two local Koreans with which to practice, but they work in busy shops, so I’ll have to go during off-times and practice.

Hyunwoo-ssi, you forget I’m a newbie (Must be because of my *royal title* ) Whaaaat?

Sometimes I get confused between “이에요” and “있어요 “. For example, when Ryuji was asking where the police station was, he could have said “police station …어디예요” or “police station … 어디에 있어요” , but would the reply always be somewhere “있어요” instead of “이에요”?

Sorry, sounds a bit confusing. Hope you know what I’m asking!