#koreanstudybuddy

Hello,

Studying a foreign language is not easy. However. it is fun and enjoyable if it is seen as a hobby rather than being seen as an assignment. Moreover, it will be more efficient to have all the essentials with us so we don’t have to worry about their whereabouts when we are in the studying mode. I feel like the moment we stand up to get something is the moment our motivation goes away. Therefore, when I study Korean or any other materials, I always like to have all essentials with me so I can dive into it for 2 hours straight. And here is the list of all my essentials for my Korean study:

Wow. I just took my Korean final... That was by far the easiest final I have ever taken. There were some things that I wasn’t really sure about, but I’m pretty sure I would have gotten a 4.0 in that class if I would have actually done the work. I bypassed all of the info in that whole three month class in the first week. Maybe I should have joined a study group after all.

I was asked to type up ten sentences about any topic as long as I used vocab that related to what we learned in the class. I just wrote something like

I'm gonna be remaking this video soon because I accidentally forgot to include 어 and 여, but for now, here's the rest of the vowels. haha.

This is a complete list of the vowels:

아어이우오으

야여유요

에애의워와웨왜위외

예얘

Watch the video to see how to write each Korean consonant:

ㄱㄴㄷㄹㅁㅂㅅㅇㅈㅊㅋㅌㅍㅎ

Something that I didn't really explain well enough in the video is that the ㅇ is just a place holder that doesn't make a sound unless it's at the end of the syllable. Anyways, just keep writing these over and over until you know how to write each letter.

Hey, guys. Here's a quick video about present progressive verbs in Korean. It's pretty simple to get the hang of. Wherever you use present progressive in English you can use in Korean (although sometimes it's better to use the simple present in Korean).

The present progressive form in Korean is ~고 있어요. So when you're doing something currently, you take the stem of the verb that you're doing and add 고 있어요 to it.

라면 먹고 있어요. - I'm eating ramen.

텔레비전를 보고 있어요. - I'm watching TV.

So as you can see from the video, the way I memorized the Korean consonants was by singing them to the tune of the alphabet song (or twinkle twinkle little star). It actually did help me a lot with memorizing it, and for some reason it even impressed my Korean friends at school.

There’s not really a whole lot else to write on this topic, so I’ll just post the Korean consonants here:

ㄱ(g) ㄴ(n) ㄷ(d) ㄹ(r) ㅁ(m) ㅂ(b) ㅅ(s) ㅇ(-) ㅈ(j) ㅊ(ch) ㅋ(k) ㅌ(t) ㅍ(p) ㅎ(h)

In the song, all of the consonants are paired with the vowel ㅏ (ah). Something to note here, is that the ㅇ doesn’t make a sound when it’s at the beginning of a syllable, so when I say “ah ja cha…”, the ah (아) is only making the sound of the vowel.