Learn to give your name
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| Hi, everyone! My name is K-Jin. |
| 안녕하세요, 케이진입니다. |
| (Annyeonghaseyo, K-Jin-imnida.) |
| Welcome to another Korean Whiteboard Lesson! |
| In this lesson |
| you will learn how to give your name in Korean. |
| Let's get started. |
| Let's look at the dialogue. |
| You’re going to hear part of a conversation between two people |
| who meet for the first time and greet each other by saying their names. |
| When I read |
| I want you to pay attention to how they give their name in the dialogue. |
| 안녕하세요. 저는 문민규입니다. 반갑습니다. |
| (annyeonghaseyo. jeoneun munmingyuibnida. bangabseubnida.) |
| 반갑습니다. 안녕하세요, 저는 모리스 마크입니다. |
| (annyeonghaseyo. jeoneun moliseu makeu-ibnida. bangabseubnida.) |
| Hello. I’m Min-gyu Mun. Nice to meet you. |
| Hello. I’m Mark Morris. Nice to meet you. |
| One more time, a bit slower. |
| 안녕하세요. 저는 문민규입니다. 반갑습니다. |
| (annyeonghaseyo. jeoneun munmingyuibnida. bangabseubnida.) |
| 반갑습니다. 안녕하세요, 저는 모리스 마크입니다. |
| (annyeonghaseyo. jeoneun moliseu makeu-ibnida. bangabseubnida.) |
| Now let's look at the sentence pattern. |
| This pattern will be the structure that all of our dialogues will follow as |
| 저는 [name]입니다. |
| (jeoneun [name] ibnida.) |
| 저는 [name]입니다. |
| (jeoneun [name] ibnida.) |
| Literally means: |
| I” or “as for me [name] ""to be” or “am” in the formal spoken form. |
| That is to say: |
| I am [name]. |
| This is a little different in word order from the English sentence |
| but the formation is really simple. |
| 저는 |
| (jeoneun) |
| is SUBJECT (I) and say [NAME] |
| next comes |
| 입니다 |
| ibnida |
| am |
| Let's cover a little vocabulary involved in this lesson: |
| Our first vocabulary is |
| 저는 |
| (jeoneun) |
| literally means |
| “I” or “as for me”. |
| Note that |
| 저 |
| (jeo) |
| is 1st pronoun “I” or “me”. |
| 는 |
| (neun) |
| is a topic marking particle, and it’s similar to “as for” in English. |
| Next is |
| 입니다 |
| (imnida) |
| Note that the pronunciation of |
| 잇 |
| (ip) |
| is pronounced as |
| 임 |
| (im) |
| because the nasal sound |
| 니다 |
| (nida) |
| comes after |
| 입 |
| (ip.) |
| This is nasal assimilation. |
| When you pronounce it naturally |
| 입니다 |
| (imnida.) |
| Next is |
| 안녕하세요 |
| (annyeonghaseyo.) |
| literally means “Hello”. |
| 안녕하세요 |
| (annyeonghaseyo.) |
| can be used to greet politely whenever and wherever you meet someone. |
| Last one is |
| 반갑습니다 |
| (bangapseumnida.) |
| is very similar to “Nice to meet you.” in English. |
| Note that |
| 습 |
| (seup) |
| is pronounced as |
| 세움 |
| seum |
| because of nasal assimilation. |
| In Korean, when we first meet someone, we often use the phrase |
| 반갑습니다 |
| (bangapseumnida) |
| which means “Nice to meet you.” And this phrase is a formal form. |
| You can also say |
| 만나서 반갑습니다 |
| (mannaseo bangapseumnida.) |
| 만나서 |
| (mannaseo) |
| is like “to meet you” as in “Nice to meet you.” |
| but you can also omit it and say |
| 반갑습니다 |
| (bangapseumnida) |
| only. |
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