Korean language learning thread [Learn Korean!]

[hinata_kirei]

I don't know much Korean but I sure as would like to! If there are any people here who know Korean please help me learn!

[I ARE 1031]

Hinata! Don't learn too many languages at once. It is probably bad.

[hinata_kirei]

Hinata! Don't learn too many languages at once. It is probably bad.
나는 의견이 맞지않다 :P

[jkingler]

I would love to learn some Korean! I teach all Korean kids for my job right now :) If anyone can tutor us, I would be very grateful!

[hinata_kirei]

And Korean is just as relavent to Anime and Manga and stuff.
Has anyone here read Kiss me Kill me or Ragnarok?
Did I love listening to Korean music? The Trax Boa and Se7en are AWESOME!
Kdramas are good too.

[Kiie-chan]

I've read "Kill Me Kiss Me"! I thought it was really good and I also listen to Korean music! You should check out "DBSK" or Dong Bang Shin Gi, they sing good and look good too! I recommend you should check this site if you're interested: http://kaoru.owarinai.net.

Oh! And if you can, please come join the Korean FC or Korean Dramas/Movies FC!

I wanna learn Korean too...The only 2 words I know are:
Yaksok - promise
Chingoo - friend

[ItachiUchihaAnbu]

Well...I'm South Korean, but I was born in the U.S. so I don't know that much Korean..I went to Korean church which helped me learn some, but I quit and that was years ago..I only know very little basic terms..

[hinata_kirei]

Even those basic terms would help. Please help us!

Here is a site i have been using.
http://www.learnkorean.com/
I wish I could find a better one.....

[Procyon]

This thread is teh pawn.
I'm going to learn how to own Kim Jong Eew with his own native tongue.

[ItachiUchihaAnbu]

His name is spelled differently actually, besides, he's North Korean.

[daihong55]

Well...I'm South Korean, but I was born in the U.S. so I don't know that much Korean..I went to Korean church which helped me learn some, but I quit and that was years ago..I only know very little basic terms..
Hey wow! That's exactly how I am! I live in California right now, where do you live? I quit church school but I came back recently.
Even those basic terms would help. Please help us!

Korean is very different from English, it would help you understand Korean a lot more easily if you got some information about the culture. Like for instance the family tree is more complicated, there's a word for "uncle" in English, but in Korean it would be "big" uncle or "little" uncle depending on how old they are compared to your own dad. Also sentences are formed in a different way. If you wanted to say "I like apples" you would have to word it as "I apples like" in Korean. Letters make up semi-words and a few semi-words make a whole word and a few whole words make the sentence (phew).

I hope that helps a little in your overall learning of Korean.

[Kiie-chan]

Thanks for that Daihong55! :amuse I found out a little abt the sentence structure but I can only say bassic sentences like I want... and I like... kinda sentences...I'm using that website that Hinata Kirei uses and I'm currently stuck on the hangul...IT'S SOO HARD! :crying

[Kiie-chan]

I'm REALLY sorry for double posting but I had to say something...We're not really getting anywhere are we? I found a website that teaches Korean quite thoroughly and I can almost wrrite hangul fluenttly now! It's at www.asiafiest.com but you have to go to the forrum andd click on "Korean chat" and then "Learn Korean". There's alot of info that you'll finbdd very useful!

[mgrace]

There is a Guy on Narutofan who is very good at Korean... Because he taught me mor in 3 hours than my lecturers did at uni for 3 years...

Should I get him to come and give some lessons... But before you learn you must learn Hangul... Korean Characters.. It's pretty easy it only gets hard sometimes when you read because there are some rules..

????

[Kiie-chan]

That'd be great mgrace! :laugh

[iaido]

I know Korean. It's not that hard of a language, it's about as easy as Spanish IMO but then again, I grew up with it.

[mysterious_w]

WE use korean commands in my TKD class, so here's so stuff I know:

Numbers
One Hana
Two Tul
Three Set
Four Net
Five Tasot
Six Yosot
Seven Ilgop
Eight Yodol
Nine Ahop
Ten Yol

Start Shi-Jak
Stop Goman

The rest are all related to TKD

[iaido]

Just if you guys are interested, my middle name is Kyubi/Kyu-bee/Kyuubi. Interesting.

Mysterious w, you forgot joombee :P

[iaido]

His name is spelled differently actually, besides, he's North Korean.
What does North Korean have anything to do with the language? They speak the same language.

[Takeru!]

Actually, North Korean and South Korean are starting to slowly seperate in language. Diplomats from Seoul had ordered octopus in a restaurant in Pyong Yang and received squid, with the North Koreans believing that's what they said because the word had changed meanings.

South Korea has also developed a slightly altered form of transliteration, though most people have already been using it.. I'd help out, though I'm poor at reading transliterated Korean and my abilities in the language aren't as good as they should be.

[siliconrex]

writing korean is very annoying. for example 같다 (to have) has teh same pronounciation as 갓다, 갇다, 갖다 or 갗다 (theyre all prounounced gat da and i forgot what the others meant -.-). anyway if you practice enough its easy to distinguish these kind of things.

[SchiZoHybriD]

Gods, I have to keep an eye on this thread to check out people's advices.
When I was in Korea, people automatically expected I could speak Korean because I was born there. (The fact that I grew up in Norway didn't have anything to say, they seem to think language is in your blood <_<; )

Thankfully, hangul is easy to learn.

[Takeru!]

Yeah, I had the immigration officer do it to me, even though I was in the line that was all non-Korean residents/citizens. He asked me after he was done how much Korean I knew and I'm just like..=\

[Iijyanaika]

i was born in anniyang, and adopted from seoul >.> wow, didn't know there were soo many hangook saram yogee. annyong! cho nun kim won jin ibneeda. or just jeremy >:B anyone live in florida? aigoo, pigonae :`( bye bye-seyo :D

[ANBU87]

Actually, North Korean and South Korean are starting to slowly seperate in language. Diplomats from Seoul had ordered octopus in a restaurant in Pyong Yang and received squid, with the North Koreans believing that's what they said because the word had changed meanings.

South Korea has also developed a slightly altered form of transliteration, though most people have already been using it.. I'd help out, though I'm poor at reading transliterated Korean and my abilities in the language aren't as good as they should be.
the accent's are diff between the two

I'm korean...but I moved to Canada when i was 5...got whitewashed >_> but i wann relearn korean...I was borin the the city ^_^ Gotta love Seoul. 석진영 입니다. there's no 석's >_>

[Kiie-chan]

ANBU87! :squish haven't seen you in ages!

Well so far I know a fair bit of hangul and can read most of it but I still don't understand what I'm reading...:sweatdrop And I find it rather confusing when it somes to characters that have 4 characters in them...any tips on how to remember them easier? Koh mahp soom ni da! (is that correct?....if not, please tell me!)

[XxShinzouxX]

Annyeonghasaeyo!!! is the only korean that I know. I quit learning korean because I was discouraged because i wasn't pronouncing it right ^^ Silly isn't it, but I do plan on learning it someday. Annyeong ^^

[Sho]

Actually I hope to be learning Korean (Hangul right?) soon. I heard if you know Japanese that Korean should be relatively easy to pick up, and vice-versa. But it's kinda strange since when I see some Koreans speak Japanese, many can't pronounce the 'r' and 'sh' sounds perfectly, so I'm guessing that they don't have those sounds in the language...

Anyways, anyone know any good websites to learn more about the language? The alphabet should be tons easier than Japanese so I'm at least glad for that.

[NarutoUzamaki]

hey im not korean but i'm tryin to learn from my friends:
i noe
shikuro-be quiet
anyung-hello
yabusayo-hello over the phone
not sure how to spell but othrakaijinaesup
that is how are you
and tonkumong-which is a bad word heh later

[mr_shadow]

I hope the US leave North Korea alone long enogh for a revolution to start. Would be fun to see em get taken out by the same marxist laws* they claim to follow (nothing could be further from the truth).


*= Marx claimed that when a peoples living standard drops below a certain level, a revolution is inevidable. It is throug these revolutions that society evolves, so all dictatorships will eventually "invent" democracy

[mgrace]

?? First u need to learn Hangul... Great thing is that Korean and Japanese are similar langage they come from the same family...

The Korean Alphabet is phonetic and has a few rules but once you learn the alphabet then reading and writing in Korean is easy... The only problem is the pronunciation of Korean is hard.... BUT the Grammar is exactly the same as JAPANESE.....

[vanh]

i used to learned Korean by myself for more than 1 month only.It as the time i was toooooo crazy about H.O.T and i wanted to understand what they sang in Korean.
I ended up knowing the alphabet .Now i can read ,but can't understand wat it's saying.
Writting in Korean is difficult. When u tranform a word, u must write it in some way Agrhhhhhhh i dunno how to discribe it
but i want to learn it now, coz' anyway i like it ^^
joinage please

[Kiie-chan]

Writing in Korean is alright once you learn the basics. I can't exactly explain it but it's similar to english when you spell words. For example, if you get the character for "s" and put it together with the character for "a" then you get "sa". I hope that makes sense...:sweatdrop

I'm not Korean myself but I've been learning a little off of the asiafinest forums. Here's the linmk for their website if you're interested:

www.asiafinest.com

[Kiie-chan]

I got this information off of one of the sites I've been using. Hope it helps!

Vowels:
a = (ah) as in "far"
eo = (aw) as in "fox"
o = (oh) as in "cope"
u = (oo) as in "juice"
eu = (eeoo) combine these two sounds, say quickly, eeoo
ae = (short a) as in "at"
e = (eh) as in "get"
ya = (yah) as in "yacht"
yeo = (yaw) as in "yum"
yo = (yoh) as in "yodel"
yu = (yoo) as in "you"
yae = (ya) as in "yeah"
ye = (yeh) as in "yes"
wa = (wah) as in "wand"
wae = (wa) as in "swam"
wo = (wu) as in "was"
we = (weh) as in "wet"
wi = (wee) as in "we"
oe = (weh) as in "wet"
ui = (wee) as in "we"

Consonants:
g,k as in game
n as in noise
d,t as in dog
r/l as in rain, lily
m as in mother
b,p as in bed
s/sh as in speech, shoot
ng as in ring
j as in jungle
h as in high
k as in kid, kite
t as in tank
p as in punk
ch as in cheese
kk stronger than "sky"
tt stronger than "stop"
pp stronger than "███"
jj similar to "it's easy"
ss as in essence

[Second-Hand Love]

Hi, and I'm Korean....!!!!!
I live in Canada for about 3years now!!!
I don't listen to Korean musics anymore, but I kno the singers that u r talkin bout!!

I read Ragnarok, too. And there is this awesome manga by a Korean artist,
and its bout the royal family of Korea(it does not excist, and manga is fic.)
and it it AWESOME!!!!

I'm kinda new here, but I can teacha bit if u want to!!!!

Not now, cause this is not my computer, so I can't write Korean, but
maybe next time!!!!

[Second-Hand Love]

I can speak Korean
lived in Korea for nine years
^^
I can teach some if u want(not that good, but can always try)