korean lessons

i know for sure that im not that good at speaking korean, so i've invited a tutor from k-popped to teach us some!

"hello! anyunghasayo! i will be teaching you korean today! this is for beginners, so if you already know the basics, i would reccomend you to leave immediatly. thank you."

(below is from http://www.k-popped.com/)



we will learn about final consonants (batchim), aspirated consonants (ㅋ, ㅍ, ㅌ,ㅊ, ㅎ), as well as asking simple questions such as 뭐예요? (mwo-ye-yo = What is this?), 누구예요 (noo-goo-ye-yo = Who is this?) and 어디예요? (eo-di-ye-yo = Where is this?).

We'll also run through 있어요 (iss-eo-yo = there is/have), 없어요 (eop-seo-yo = there isn’t/don’t have) and since we haven't learned좋아해요 (joh-ah-hae-yo = like)eek, i will teach you the difference between 좋아해요 and 좋아요 (joh-ah-yo = good, fine)포크 & 나이프. Please ask lots of questions as. you can learn new words such as: new words – 포크 (po-keu) and 나이프 (nai-peu). can you guess what this means? (take a few seconds here, if you don’t already know).

you don't know?
Teacher: 포크 is fork and 나이프 is knife. For Koreans, we pronounce each syllable of the word clearly. So po-keu – since we don’t have “F” – is fork and nai-peu is knife. But Koreans with good English, and even ordinary Koreans these days will just say “fork and knife”.


Cow liquor, anyone?

(While lwe are learning with flash cards) The class came across the word 포도 (po-do = grape). Does this sound familiar? i will expand the word a bit.
Teacher: Can anyone guess what 포도주 (po-do-ju) is?

주 (ju) is actually similar to the Chinese word “chiu” as in liquor.
So 포도주 (grape liquor) is wine.

Fellow student: 선생님, then you’re telling me 소주 (so-ju) is “cow liquor” since last week, we learned that cow is 소 (so)?

Teacher: No, no, no it is not like that. But you’re very imaginative.




"and that is the end of class today. thank you. can you say 'thank you for me?' "