Rob…

Another question was asked, this one about consonant clusters (if you don’t know what those are, don’t worry, they’re explained in the video) and whether or not they are worth learning.

Check out the video to find out what I think!

Happy learning…

I hope that helps, but if you haven’t yet learned how to read or learn anything about the basic sentence and how it breaks down, then I highly suggest you head here to claim your free gift – the first four classes of the online class, just under 4 hours worth of videos along the printable handouts we use in class so you can follow along with everything we do in the videos. If you are new to Korean, then that is where you want to start. Study those videos, then you can come back to these “how-to” Korean videos.

This’ how-to Korean’ video is actually an answer to a question by one of the students of LearnKoreanOnline.NET.  The question was about the statement ‘무수 말인지 몰라요’ which translates to “I don’t know what you’re saying”, and actually the question was more specifically, what does the ‘무슨 말인지’ part of that sentence mean?

So check out the video (down below), and if you have any more questions about it or anything else, fire away.

Cheers, and happy learning!

Rob…

p.s. If you’re new to Korean, this video will be a bit over your head so my suggestion would to head here and get the 4 hours of free videos teaching the basics. That’s where you want to start, and you can always come back to this later.

In today’s class, we learned how to repeat statements and questions. At first, this might seem like kind of a strange thing to be learning, but the reason for it is that it is just a super common style of speech in Korean. And along with that, with this being the last class of level #2, it’s a great way to review everything we’ve learned up to this point.

So if you have any questions, just reply to this post down below and ask your question.

Also, this being the last class of level 2, if you’d like to just share your thoughts on level 2, and the entire class so far in general, that’d be great as well!

Cheers,

Rob…

In class #23, we went over a couple of different things, both using the same structure. The first use will come in handy as it’s a question (or questions) that you’ll really hear a lot in Korean. The other use of the structure is one that I think you’ll find yourself using a lot, to make statements or ask questions.

So, same deal as always, if you have any questions you’d like answered, just reply to this.

Cheers!

Rob…

Today’s class covered a way to ask and give permission, and also how to say “You can’t do that,” in terms of, you must not.

It’s a bit of a short class this time, but if you have any questions, please reply to this post.

Cheers!

Rob…

Watch the video to find out. And after, if you have any more questions, feel free to reply to this post and ask away.

Cheers, and happy learning!

p.s. by the way, I will never use phonetics in my videos. If you plan on learning Korean, then the absolute first thing you should do is learn how to read and write. And if you’d like to do so, head over to this page and register for the 4 hours of free videos taken from my in-class course that has been running here in Korea since 2006. The first two classes you get will teach you exactly how to read, write, and say the Korean alphabet. Then the next two classes will get into the basic sentence. So if you are interested in learning Korean, go get those videos and they’ll make the video above, and the ones to come, make A LOT more sense.

Today’s class we got into a structure that is just amazingly common and useful when speaking Korean. It’s something that most native English speakers take for granted, ’cause students of English have a real hard time with it, but going the other direction, learning how to say those things in Korean is actually not that bad once you get the idea of it, and that’s what this class is aimed at doing.

If you have any questions about today’s class – it is a good one to make sure you have clear ’cause it’ll really help you down the road – go ahead and reply to this and ask away.

Cheers!

Rob…

P.S. If you’re reading this and don’t know how to read, write or speak Korean, or would just maybe like to find out what these online classes are all about, then just above this post and to the right, you should see a big red “FREE” sign. Although (at the time I wrote this) it says you’ll only get class #1 of the course, I’ve actually recently changed the system and so by entering your name and email address into there, you’ll actually now get the first 4 classes (a total of almost 4 hours worth of videos) in 5-day increments.

That way, you can learn how to read and write the Korean alphabet, learn how the basic Korean sentence works and how to ask and answer a few of the most common questions using arguably the most common verb, AND you can find out exactly how the online course works. 3 birds with one stone? Who’s heard of it!

Anyways, if you are just a beginner then these videos will really go a long way in helping you understand exactly how basic Korean works, and should make the rest of your Korean learning experience a lot easier to understand.

Cheers!

Well, yet another class is down. In this class we took a look at another common way to speak about the future using a style of speech that seems to have been phased out of most styles of English these days, but is still very commonly used in the Korean language.

This class was a bit of a heavy one, and introduced a few new sentence patterns as well, so if you have any questions about the class, please feel free to reply to this post and ask.

Cheers!

P.S. If you’re reading this and are just new to learning Korean and would possibly like to try to learn korean online, if you look just up to the right of this post, you’ll see a big red FREE sign. By entering your name and email under there (although it says otherwise at the time I posted this), you’ll get access to the first 4 classes of my online course (around 20 videos totallying around 4 hours of material) which will cover exactly how to read and write Korean, and get into the breakdown of the basic sentence teaching you exactly how to ask and answer questions using arguably the most common verb there is. Finding decent resources to learn Korean from can be difficult, and those videos should help get you started in the right direction. Cheers!

Here’s a video answering your question. There’ll be some more notes and examples down below the video.

Cheers!

P.S. If you’re just new to learning Korean, but would maybe like to try to learn Korean online, then if you look to the right of this post, you’ll see a big, red free sign. Under that (at the time I’m writing this), it says you’ll get over 70 minutes worth of free videos teaching how to read and write. Well, that’s true, those videos are actually just class one of the course. What you’ll also get is, although it doesn’t say it there, is classes 2, 3, and 4, which will get you reading as well as get you into the basic Korean sentence and how it breaks down and can be manipulated to ask and answer questions. A great starting point if you’re just new. (if I may say so myself). Cheers!

Additional Notes:

와 (w-ah) and 과 (gwa):

Used as ‘and’ between nouns.

와 (w-ah) follows a vowel

ex) a man and a woman: 남자 와 여자

과 (gwa) follows a consonant:

ex) bread and milk: 빵 과 우유

* Also, I didn’t mention this in the video, but we get into using and practicing it a bit later in the course, but ‘~랑’ can also be used. It translates as ‘with’, but is contextually used as ‘and’ as well.

Cheers, hope that helps!