MANNAM Korean class: That’s what he said!

MANNAM Korean class: That’s what he said!

 David has a younger sister. He is worried about her because she has flu these days. Mike asks David why he has a long face. David answers it is because of his sister. After the conversation, they went back to their business. Nancy is a co worker who works with David and Mike. Nancy noticed that David has worries too. So she comes up to Mike and asks, “David seems that he has worries these days. Do you know about anything?” “Yeah, he said his sister is sick. That’s what he said to me.” Mike said.

 Mike told Nancy about the fact that he heard. In Korean, there are some postpositional particles that make differences according to what kind of sentence the speaker says. If we translate what Mike said in Korean, it will be like “네, 그의 동생이 아프다고 했어요.”

‘동생이 아프다(Sister is sick)’ is the fact. If I am the person who is passing the news, I have to use the postpositional particle ‘~다고’. Not every particle is like this though. There are four kinds of this kind of particle depending what kind of sentence is used.

1.     Declarative sentence: ~다고

If A speaks in a declarative sentence, B listens to this and have to use ‘~다고’ to C.

Ex) ‘He said he was sick.’ ☞ ‘그는 아팠었다고 말했어요.’

2.     Interrogative sentence: ~냐고(느냐고)

To speak ‘~느냐고’ is a right way in grammar, but since people use just ‘~냐고’ it is established by Korean grammar that it is okay.

Ex) ‘He asked me if I am busy.’ ☞ ‘그는 나에게 바쁘냐고 물어봤어요.’

3.     ‘Let’s do ~’ sentence: ~자고

Ex) ‘He said let’s go on a picnic.’ ☞ ‘그는 소풍을 가자고 했어요.’

4.     Noun: ~(이)라고

 Ex) ‘He told me that is a flower.’ ☞ ‘그는 저것이 꽃이라고 말해 줬어요.’

Now that you have learned, do you know the difference between the four postpositional particles? Just knowing by your head is no use though. In MANNAM Korean class we also have the opportunity to speak each other to use it in real life. You can be like Mike who can choose and speak the right postpositional particles. Join MANNAM Korean class and be fluent!

MANNAM Korean class: Spelling system of Hangul(한글 맞춤법)2

MANNAM Korean class: Spelling system of Hangul(한글 맞춤법)2

 No matter which language you learn, leaning a language is difficult. You have to know the rules of grammar, vocabularies, and words that people use because of culture. Korean has a feature that people say. ‘아침에 글을 배우면 저녁에 쓸 수 있다(If you learn the character in the morning, you can write it in the afternoon).’ Do you agree this sentence? Well, this can be a little exaggerated, but actually I saw many of my friends learn Korean fast. This is possible when I learn and know the Hangul by the first step at a step. This is the other basics that we have to know about Hangul.

 Chapter 2 is about the alphabets. In Hangul the alphabets are twenty four totals, and the order and names are like this.

ㄱ(기역), ㄴ(니은), ㄷ(디귿), ㄹ(리을), ㅁ(미음), ㅂ(비읍), ㅅ(시옷), ㅇ(이응), ㅈ(지읒), ㅊ(치읓), ㅋ(키읔), ㅌ(티읕), ㅍ(피읖), ㅎ(히읗)

ㅏ(아), ㅑ(야), ㅓ(어), ㅕ(여), ㅗ(오), ㅛ(요), ㅜ(우), ㅠ(유), ㅡ(으), ㅣ(이)

Especially, when you pronounce ‘ㄱ, ㄷ, ㅅ, ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅎ’ make sure you pronounce it correctly. Even Koreans get confused when they pronounce this.

Addition 1, the sounds that we can’t pronounce with the alphabets above, we double the alphabets and the order and names are like this.

< Compound consonants >

ㄲ(쌍기역), ㄸ(쌍디귿), ㅃ(쌍비읍), ㅆ(쌍시옷), ㅉ(쌍지읒)

< Compound vowels >

ㅐ(애), ㅒ(얘), ㅔ(에), ㅖ(예), ㅘ(와), ㅙ(왜), ㅚ(외), ㅝ(워), ㅞ(웨), ㅟ(위), ㅢ(의)

Addition 2, the orders of the alphabet is like this in the dictionary.

< The orders of Hangul alphabets in the dictionary >

1.     Consonants

 ㄱ, ㄲ, ㄴ, ㄷ, ㄸ, ㄹ, ㅁ, ㅂ, ㅃ, ㅅ, ㅆ, ㅇ, ㅈ, ㅉ, ㅊ, ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, ㅎ

2.     Vowels

ㅏ, ㅐ, ㅑ, ㅒ, ㅓ, ㅔ, ㅕ, ㅖ, ㅗ, ㅘ, ㅙ, ㅚ, ㅛ, ㅜ, ㅝ, ㅞ, ㅟ, ㅠ, ㅡ, ㅢ, ㅣ

 Once you learn the basics of Hangul, you can progress your study easily. The important things are in your mind. If you think that it is easy, and try hard for it, you can achieve it easily. If you think you can not, that brings the same conclusion. So let’s learn the basics in MANNAM Korean class! Here you can learn not only Korean but also love. Make yourself who IS the person that writes in the afternoon. In MANNAM it is possible!

MANNAM The meaning of the word ‘아름답다’

KC- The meaning of the word ‘아름답다’

Since summer is around the corner, the weather is getting warmer and warmer. The flowers, trees and all the natures make picturesque scene. Looking at those make me say

Then what is the word beautiful in Korean? Also, what is to be beautiful?

아름답다(a-reum-dab-ta) is an adjective which means ‘beautiful’.

The old word of 아름답다(a-reum-dab-ta) is 알움(al-um).

When we examine the word 알움(al-um) detailly, it is the combined letter of 알(al) and 움(um).

The first letter 알(al) is same as the word ‘아’ and ‘아리’, all of them means ‘the sun’

The second letter 움(um) refers ‘state of sprouting out.’

All together 알움(al-um) refers ‘sprouting out the seed that is naturally within me.’

Therefore, 아름답다(a-reum-dab-ta) connotes the meaning that to be beautiful is sprouting out what is naturally within you.

Each one of us has beautiful sprouts in us.

Each sprout, the spirit of your own culture won’t be same, but there’s no doubt that each one is beautiful.

Moreover, it will be more beautiful when each of us recognize and respect the each cultural spirits within us. Each one of us are beautiful because we have own special culture and beautiful within us.

As we learnt the word ‘아름답다(a-reum-dab-ta)’, I hope you can remind the beauty within us as the connotation in the word 아름답다(a-reum-dab-ta) when you use this word.

You are beautiful

당신은 아름답습니다 (Dang-sin-un) (a-reum-dab-tap-seup-ni-da)