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1.

First one seems easier.

It’s the one of comfort and fake progress.

People waste countless amounts of energy and time on this one.

It’s the path most people prefer.

* learning single words (because it seems less demanding)

* playing with apps that don’t teach active skills, instead give the illusion of progress

* giving someone else total control over our “progress”

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2.

The second one seems harder.

It’s not so fleshy and it requires a little more effort.

But paradoxically this path brings results much faster with much less total energy invested.

✓ learning useful sentences by heart

✓ keeping control and responsibility in our own hands

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i translated 70% of this song by myself!!

now did my translation make sense?? no not at all BUT I DID IT!!

isn’t the fact that someone speaks that language enough? is it so “useless” to learn about a lesser known country’s history and culture?

WATCH THE LESSON: https://youtu.be/GvJ0p6w4q9g

 Hello my fellow students welcome to the future! We are gonna be learning one way of making the future tense in Korean. Funny thing about the future tense in Korean, it's one of those things that does not translate perfectly from English. There are multiple ways of talking about the future in Korean. We will start with one of the more common and versatile ways: the probable future. 

In English when we talk about the future we use the sentences like: "I will ____" "You will ____" "It will _____"; or "I'm going to ______" "You're going to _____" "It's going to ______".

But, you see... Koreans don't pretend that they can predict the future with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY. So, they don't say things like "It's going to rain" the say "It's probably going to rain". and they don't even need to include the word 'probably' in the sentence (because who wants to stick an extra word their sentence like that) Instead they just conjugate their verbs into the probable future tense and the 'probably' part is baked right in!

So lets learn the probable future.

We start with an infinitive verb. Lets choose ha-da and meok-da

하다                      먹다

then you do the usual thing and cut off the -da

하                               먹 then you've got to add the probable future tense ending

if you verb root ends in a vowel the ending is 

-ㄹ거야  -ㄹ거예요  -ㄹ겁니다  (color code: casual, polite, formal)

and

-을거야  -을거예요  -을겁니다 

for verbs that end in consonants

examples:

하다 => 할거야 할거예요 할겁니다

먹다 => 먹을거야 먹을거예요 먹을겁니다

and it's the same for all types of verbs. It's not like present tense or past tense where we needed a different ending for ㅓ verbs, ㅏ verbs and 하다 verbs. All the verbs get the same ending when we conjugate them into the probable future.

You may also see it with a little space added. Both with the space and without the space are equally correct.

ㄹ 거야 ㄹ 거예요  ㄹ 겁니다 end in vowels.

을 거야 을 거예요  을 겁니다 end in consonants.

AND THAT'S IT! That's your probable future tense.

Thanks for studying with me.

My current Langue du Jour is Mandarin. No reason. I'm doing the lessons on Duolingo.

Here's what I know so far.

Water - Shũi (I know that's the wrong tone mark, I don't know how to bring the correct one up at the moment).

Coffee - Kāfēi

And - Hè

Tea - Chá (is that the right tone 🤔)

Soup - Tāng

Rice - Mífàn

I also know what "she", "shima", "bisha" and "meiyo" mean but I don't know how to write them correctly in pinyin (yes, what, Your Majesty, and no, respectively). I know these words because I'm watching a Chinese historical drama and they say these words A LOT, especially "Your Majesty" 😂

And I can remember how to write, by heart, the hanzi for water, coffee and tea so far. Water and tea are the same as the Japanese kanji equivalent (I'm pretty sure they're the same).