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마마's avatar

μ•ˆλ…•ν•˜μ„Έμš” μ„ μƒλ‹˜! Interesting today's lesson, it's a pity that it is once a week. I had guessed some things (my university studies of linguistics were useful for something) and then confirmed by watching videos or searching on the internet and books.

Anyway congratulations, 우리 μ„ μƒλ‹˜, for always being clear and making the explanations simple and easily understandable. πŸ‘¨β€πŸ« λ¬Έμ…˜ is the best teacher.

What about my hobbies? μ €λŠ” κΉ€ν•„ μ‚¬λž‘ν•΄μš” (I meant "I love κΉ€ν•„'s music"), μ €λŠ” λΆ€λ₯΄μš” πŸ‘©πŸΌβ€πŸŽ€. μ €λŠ” 맀일 10 km (?) κ±·μš”πŸƒπŸΌβ€β™€οΈ. μ €λŠ” ν•œκ·Ήμ–΄ λ°°μ›Œμš” πŸ‘©πŸΌβ€πŸŽ“πŸ‡°πŸ‡·.

Could I ask you a question? How do you join two sentences with the conjunction AND?

I apologize if I was long and I thank you in advance. κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€ μ„ μƒλ‹˜!

λ‹€μŒμ— 또 봐! πŸ™‹πŸΌβ€β™€οΈπŸ’š

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Buster Moon's avatar

Thank you very much for your kind words every time! Let me correct some of your sentences:

- μ €λŠ” λ…Έλž˜ λΆˆλŸ¬μš” or λ…Έλž˜ν•΄μš”

- μ €λŠ” 맀일 10ν‚¬λ‘œλ―Έν„° κ±Έμ–΄μš”

- μ €λŠ” ν•œκ΅­μ–΄ λ°°μ›Œμš”

Good try dropping λ‹€ and adding μš” to conjugate the verbs! It works for some verbs but not for all of them and we will get there soon!

As for your question, the grammar form you need is "verb stem + 고"😊

ν™”μ΄νŒ…!

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마마's avatar

ν™”μ΄νŒ…?

κ·ΈλŸΌμš”Β πŸ‹πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ

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Eva's avatar

I learned a little. It ist very good. But with my age of 68, I can only Take very little steps.

What I told in German Last time, was the fact, that I don't know the Hangul Alphabet and don't have possibility or knowledge how to use It with my Smartphone.

Doesn't matter...It's all very good. Thank you!

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마마's avatar

Ich mΓΆchte Ihnen sehr gerne helfen. I didn't understand if you were able to add the Korean alphabet to your mobile keyboard. If not, you could search on Google or another search engine "How to add another language to mobile phone keyboard". I can tell you that it is really very simple.

νŒŒμ΄νŒ…! 포기 ν•˜μ§€λ§ˆ! Los! Dann gib nicht auf!

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Buster Moon's avatar

Hi Eva! Let's take a baby step at a time! Thank you for your engagement😊

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Elyse's avatar

μ•ˆλ…•!

μ € ν•œκ΅­μ–΄ λ°°μ›Œμš”

μ € μ½μ–΄μš”

μ € μŒμ•… μ’‹μ•„ν•΄μš”

(How would I say I like to sing?)

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Buster Moon's avatar

Hi Elyse! Great sentences! For your second sentence, you want to add an object just because the verb 읽닀 usually goes with one. So you can say μ € μ±… μ½μ–΄μš”, μ € μ‹ λ¬Έ μ½μ–΄μš”, etc.

"I like to sing" would be a little more complicated. μ € λ…Έλž˜ν•˜λŠ” κ±° μ’‹μ•„ν•΄μš”. We will get there eventually!😊

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Elyse's avatar

κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€! Thank you for the help! 😁

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Kelly's avatar

μ € μ½μ–΄μš”! πŸ“š

μ € λ‹¬λ €μš”! πŸƒβ€β™€οΈ

μ € ν•œκ΅­μ–΄ λ°°μ›Œμš”! πŸ‡°πŸ‡·

I also β€œbird.” Birding has become a verb in English and has a different feel than β€œbird-watching.” Is there something similar in Korean? πŸ¦πŸ˜„

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Buster Moon's avatar

Hi Kelly! Great job! For the first one, you want to add an object just because the verb 읽닀 usually goes with one. So you can say μ € μ±… μ½μ–΄μš”, μ € μ‹ λ¬Έ μ½μ–΄μš”, etc.

In Korean, there is no such verb as "to bird". That's interesting and it sounds a little weird. I just went birding. I birded yesterday. You wanna go bird with me?πŸ˜‚

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Kelly's avatar

Yes, that’s exactly how birders use the word in English! πŸ˜„ Is there a word for β€œbird watching” in Korean?

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Andreea-Mihaela's avatar

μ•ˆλ…•ν•˜μ„Έμš”! μ € μ–΄νƒˆλ¦¬μ•„μ–΄, ν•˜κ΅­μ–΄, ν”„λž‘μŠ€μ–΄ λ°°μ›Œμš”. Please correct me if i misspelt Italian and French because i am not sure if i put them right in the sentence.

How do i say 'I like to sing'? So far, I am getting 처 λ…Έλž˜ μΆ―μ•„ν•΄μš” but i am sure that means 'i love the song'🀣🀣

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Buster Moon's avatar

Hey Andrea!

*μ € μ΄νƒˆλ¦¬μ•„μ–΄, ν•œκ΅­μ–΄, ν”„λž‘μŠ€μ–΄ λ°°μ›Œμš”.*

"I like to sing" is actually a little complicated in Korean than how you'd imagine. I'll just give you the answer for now! μ € λ…Έλž˜ν•˜λŠ” κ±° μ’‹μ•„ν•΄μš”!

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Andreea-Mihaela's avatar

Wow! That is difficult enough but at least i can read it! I even typed wrong🫣

κ³ λ§ˆμ›Œμš”

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Sophia Weber's avatar

μ € ν•œκ΅­μ–΄ λ°° oh well, that's how far I got fighting the Korean keyboard... 🀣 How do I write "take photos" ?

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Buster Moon's avatar

Hi Sohia!

λ°°μ›Œμš” is the conjugation of the verb λ°°μš°λ‹€! "μ € ν•œκ΅­μ–΄ λ°°μ›Œμš”."

"To take photos" in Korean would be 사진(을) 찍닀.

μ € 사진 μ°μ–΄μš”πŸ˜Š

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Poorva sharma's avatar

μ € μΆ€ μ’‹μ•„μš”.

μ € μžλ™μ°¨ μ’‹μ•„μš”.

Who to write I like to drive a car.

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Buster Moon's avatar

Instead of writing μ’‹μ•„μš”, you should write μ’‹μ•„ν•΄μš” because this is the verb "to like". μ’‹μ•„μš” is technically a descriptive verb that means "to be good" although it is often used as "to like"!

"I like to drive" in Korean would be μ € μš΄μ „ μ’‹μ•„ν•΄μš”πŸ˜Š

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Maria DeCourt's avatar

μ € ν•˜μ΄ν‚Ήν•΄μš” πŸ₯ΎπŸŒ²

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Buster Moon's avatar

Hi Maria! That's awesome!

저도 ν•˜μ΄ν‚Ή μ’‹μ•„ν•΄μš”. I like hiking as well!😊

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Kim G.'s avatar

This was super helpful - thanks!

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Buster Moon's avatar

Hi Kim! You're very welcome!😊

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Donna Huck's avatar

λ‚˜ μ·¨ λ―Έ :

μ € ν•œ κ΅­ μ–΄ λ°° μ›Œ μš”

됴 였 링 κ³  에 μ„œ 파 이 퍼 와 μ‹Έ 였 μ–΄ μš”

μ € μ•„ μ‹œ μ•„ 음 식 을 μš” 리 ν•œ μ•„ μš”

감 사 ν•© λ‹ˆ λ‹€ !

I look forward to the newsletter on Sundays! It's very good!

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Buster Moon's avatar

제 취미:

μ € ν•œκ΅­μ–΄ λ°°μ›Œμš”

λ“€μ˜€λ§κ³ μ—μ„œ... not sure what you tried to say!

μ € μ•„μ‹œμ•„ μŒμ‹ μš”λ¦¬ν•΄μš”

Thank you very much Donna!😊

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Sally's avatar

Thank you, for the mail today. The helps me a lot practicing korean and understanding the difference between the words.

μ•ˆλ…•ν•˜μ„Έμš”

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Buster Moon's avatar

μ•ˆλ…•ν•˜μ„Έμš” 샐리 씨!

Thanks for reading and leaving a comment! See you next Sunday!

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Poorvi's avatar

I am really enjoying learning korean this way. But I have a request that if could you just write how to pronounce the words as well. I know somewhere it is written but not everytime. This could really help when we don't know how to read korean much.

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Buster Moon's avatar

Hi Poorvi, the reason I wrote it sparingly is because I would like you to force yourself to get used to Hangul as fast as you can. If I continue putting Romanization, you will likely depend on that. It's a dilemma for me too haha Let me think about it a little more! Thank you for your suggestion!😊

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Saraswoti's avatar

μ € μ·¨λ―Έκ°€ ν•œκ΅­μ–΄ κ³΅λΆ€μ˜ˆμš”.

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Buster Moon's avatar

Nice sentence μ‚¬λΌμŠ€μ›Œν‹°!

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λ ˆμ˜€λ‹ˆ's avatar

μ•ˆλ…•ν•˜μ„Έμš” πŸ‘‹πŸ»

μ € ν•œκ΅­μ–΄ λ°°μ›Œμš”. And I also draw in my free time but I’m not sure how to write it πŸ˜… A big β€œthank you” for your hard work it helped me so much

Stay happy and healthy

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Buster Moon's avatar

μ•ˆλ…•ν•˜μ„Έμš” λ ˆμ˜€λ‹ˆ 씨!

Your sentence was great and that's all I needed to see😊

μ € κ·Έλ¦Ό κ·Έλ €μš” is something you can say. κ·Έλ¦Ό is a paint or picture, κ·Έλ €μš” is the conjugation of the verb 그리닀 "to draw/ to paint".

See you next Sunday!

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Maribel's avatar

κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€

This is really helpful 😊

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Buster Moon's avatar

Hi Maribel! You're very welcome!😊

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Julia/μ§€μœ¨'s avatar

μ•ˆλ…•ν•˜μ„Έμš”!

Just a quick question, is it okay instead of μ € ν•œκ΅­μ–΄ λ°°μ›Œμš”, to say μ € ν•œκ΅­μ–΄ κ³΅λΆ€ν•΄μš” ?

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Buster Moon's avatar

μ•ˆλ…•ν•˜μ„Έμš” μ§€μœ¨ 씨!

λ°°μš°λ‹€ is "to learn" and κ³΅λΆ€ν•˜λ‹€ is "to study"

And it's just that these two words are two different verbs😊

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