I have a question about letter placement when spelling words. I get confused trying to spell longer words where the exact letter placement isn't obvious (like 운동 undong; exercise).

For example:

Why is the name Garam spelled 가람 and not 갈암

Crow is 까마귀 and not 깜악위

Camera is 카메라 and not 캄엘아

Does this have to do with batchim sound as the batchim is typically unvoiced, so move the consonant out of batchim? Is there a general rule that I'm unaware of or is it kind of like English, a mixed bag of spelling that makes sense and the odd ones?

so ive been a kpop stan since like 2008, but was still having trouble with pronunciation, so i decided to learn hangul. while this helped with some of my issues, one is still bugging me—ㅔand ㅐ. ive tried my best, but i still cant hear a difference. can someone explain what differences i should be looking out for? thank you :)

Is my writing correct? I don’t see any errors, personally.

For example I've seen the following two online.

전화번호가 뭐예요 (Korean101)

전화번호가 몇 번이에요 (Sogang)

I assume you could also do something like this too. 전화번호가 부엇이에요.

My understanding is that 몇 can also mean "How much" not just "what". Is the 번 after 몇 necessary whereas it's not in the other two sentences? How do you pick between these @_@?

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Hi, I was wondering how long it took you to be able to read Hangul without having to pronounce every syllable in your head/out loud? For now, the only way for me to remember a word is by the sound. I'm sure it will get better over time, but while I can read the alphabet (slowly), but it's practically meaningless without the sound.

I'm under the impression that the usual korean sentence goes like:

Noun+place+adj+verb

I used the same formula for this particular sentence and its the other way around?? Place+noun+verb? Im a bit confused on this.

The answer is: 762 sequence from left to right

In my case, I use it not at all. Even when I am talking to people that I know for several years, I would still use 해요체.

Hello, i'm hann!

I have studied korean for 5 years and i'm willing to teach beginners. If anyone is interested please dm me. I can help you with anything you want. Fluent in eng/kr/hindi.

Here's a little routine of how my classes go -

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• Introduction
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I don't get where the 참 in this sentence comes from. What does it mean?

책을 봐요. 책을 읽어요. 책을 독서 해요.

I understand all of these to be interchangeable. Is there any way to know which one is natural in which context?

Hi everyone,
I'm planning to take the 94th TOPIK exam and I'm on the lookout for some good online learning resources. I've been using textbooks for a while, but I'd love to supplement my studies with some interactive or video-based learning.
Does anyone have any recommendations for websites or channels that help prepare for the TOPIK?

My tutor tried to explain it to me but it didn't make much sense so any help would be appreciated

I have two teachers. One makes me quizlet cards. Another sends me a list of words on Google doc. I heard anki was better so should I move all of them to anki each time or is quizlet fine? Having it in one place also honestly sounds quite nice

Hi! I’m a writer and in my most recent project I plan to have a character of South Korean decent. I’ve been doing some research on my own of how Korean names work, which has sparked an interest in learning more about the language. However, as I’m still very new to it, I wanted to asked for some opinions to make sure the name I’ve chosen for this character works/makes sense. The name I’ve chosen is Kim Ryung-Min, with ‘Ryung’ meaning ‘Brightness’ and ‘Min’ meaning ‘Heaven’. I want to make sure I write this character correctly and respectfully, and that begins with making sure the name is right, so please let me know if any corrections need to be made. Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you in advance!

Hi, I am a Korean learner who is also a beginner. I just looked for some ‘free beginning-level Korean classes,’ and I want to share good sources.

This is the list that I searched.

New to learning Korean. (Free)

-베이직 코리안 Basic Korean - YouTube

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I want to learn Korean with a regular course. (Free)

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Hi everybody!

This month, I started to self-study Korean and I got online the book New Generation Korean 1, but I found there is no answer key for the workbook (the answers for textbook are already on that book). I checked the website and I just only found the audios. Anyone knows how to get the answers for the activities in the workbook.

Thanks :)

아녕하세요. 학교 발표때문에 설문 조사 해야돼요. 처음 한국으로 설문 조사를 만들어서 틀린 것 많고 아마 질문의 의미도 좀 이상한 것 같아요.확인함을 부탁드립니다. 감사합니다. 시간이 된다면 설문 조사도 선택할 수 있으면 감사합니다. 1분 정도 걸려요 그리고 저는 시립대 어학당에서 공부하고 있어서 친구를 사귀고 싶은 사람은 저에게 연락해요. Instagram u/tienngo3074

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I just finished working through Vitamin Korean Volume 1.

Here are my impressions:

First, it's a good book, and I recommend it.

Book 1 covers the absolute necessities across 5 Chapters:

• Hangul
• Introductions
• Time and Date
• Locations and Places
• Past / Future Tense

Hate romanization? Good news, there is none. Not a little bit, none. They do show show some English letters for the sounds, but you won't find a single word written in it's romanized form outside of names of places (Seoul/Busan, etc)

Also, don't expect much English either. While this does have English in volumes 1 and 2, they pretty much use the absolute bare minimum. Each word you lean will typically have single definition, and each new grammar point is afforded only a single paragraph of English. The listening exercise instructions are in Korean exclusively.

There is LOTS of practice. unlike other books that have a few quick review questions, this book will have you doing exercises constantly throughout the whole book. The review sections are also quite extensive.

This book pairs along good with an actual class, as so many of the end of chapter/sub-chapter exercises are conversational, and really intended to be done with a partner.

The hardest part in the book is the listening exercises. While they do speak slowly and clear, they often give you a sizable dialog to try and parse - it usually took me several re-listens to catch everything that was said.

Also notable is some of the questions require you to infer meaning; sometimes the answer is not even stated in the dialog at all, they just want you to infer it from the context.

One thing that was a bit annoying is that in the "review" they often will use brand new words they have never taught you before. Keep your dictionary close by.

They also use the polite informal 요 form throughout most of the book. This great because this is honestly what you need IRL. The review section likes to switch it up sometimes though and have you write in the 습니다 form, so you do get to practice a bit of both.

While the minimalist approach to using English allows you to immediately leave your comfort zone, I did sometimes with there was more descriptions on the nuances of each grammar point.

Overall I found that the book actually covers less material that some other beginner level books, mostly because of the extensive amount of exercises. I consider this to mostly be a good thing, but the bad news is you will finish volume 1 with maybe 400-500 words under your belt, which isn't bad but still far from being able to have anything beyond the most basic of conversations. It isn't until Volume 2 until you really dive into the conversations that really make up the core of "survival" Korean.

As far as the book quality goes, Darakwon is a good publisher, and the book quality is good and the illustrations and audio are excellent.

My time to complete was ~1.5 months. While you could read the entire book in the matter of an hour or two, I found that to really actually adsorb and understand the material as a complete beginner this is probably the minimum amount of time I would recommend to anyone.

This is my first day of trying to write 한글 - I know it doesn’t look natural & won’t for a while, but I’m wondering if it’s at least legible? I get concerned about ㄹ and stacked characters (놓, 물) especially. I appreciate any feedback!

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Went to Korea last year and often got mistaken as Korean and few people for some reason didn't believe me. Please help me translate these sentences as Google doesn't really help that well. I am also attending a wedding and speaking in front of people so would be helpful to say a few phrases like these.

"I am Chinese-American"

"I speak Cantonese. Not Mandarin"

"I am happy to be here"

"I don't party so much but I love to drink"

"My Cantonese is bad but my Korean is worse"

"(Bride and groom names) have been my best college friends"

"I'm very nervous to speak because I didn't have enough soju"

(Talking to elders with respect if it exists) "Please drink with me so we can karaoke together"

"Borrowing happiness from tomorrow morning is okay with me"

Also please let me know if some phrases are inappropriate. I do not want to come off ignorant, I just like to joke a lot. Feel free to give me a totally different phrase if there's something better.

I have one teacher using the cyber korean sejong books, and another one i just chatted with recommended Sogang since that's what they use. Should I learn from two books at the same time? Is one better than the other? I think I could convince the second one to switch if you think it's a good idea

So I’ve been learning Korean for a while. I know some basic vocab, and sentences. I’ve considered maybe learning through beauty channels or vlogs, because i’ve seen that recommended a lot! does anyone have any recommendations, or experience using this tip? Please drop them below thank you!!

I'm on a mac and can easily switch between english and korean. However, in doing so, google docs is sticky and doesn't seem to change consistently. And sometimes when it switches to hangeul, the characters won't stack as blocks.

I want to talk about it to my 선생님 tomorrow during our session.

ive learnt 한굴, i know some words and can catch some bits of conversation if i really listen (im currently in korea — i was meant to learn before my trip but here i am)

what do i do now? is there any resources that anyone can suggest?