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✅ Beginner 25: Shopping in Korean – How Much Is It? I Want This One!

๐Ÿ“˜ Beginner 25: Shopping in Korean – How Much Is It? I Want This One! Welcome to Day 25! ๐Ÿ›️๐Ÿ’ฌ Today, you’ll learn how to go shopping in Korean. Whether you're at a street market or department store, being able to ask for prices, sizes, and say what you want is super useful! By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to say phrases like “How much is this?”, “I’ll take it,” and “Do you have this in another color?” – all in natural Korean. ๐Ÿ“Œ Shopping Vocabulary English Korean Romanization money ๋ˆ don price ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ga-gyeok sale ์„ธ์ผ se-il discount ํ• ์ธ hal-in receipt ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ yeong-su-jeung cash ํ˜„๊ธˆ hyeon-geum card ์นด๋“œ ka-deu size ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ sa-i-jeu color ์ƒ‰ saek ๐Ÿ“˜ Useful Shopping Phrases ์ด๊ฑฐ ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”? – How much is this? ์ข€ ๊นŽ์•„ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” – Please give me a discount ์นด๋“œ ๋ผ์š”? – Do you take card? ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? – Do you have another color? ์ด๊ฑฐ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” – I’ll take this one ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”, ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š” – It’s okay, I’m just look...

✅Beginner 22: Weather and Seasons in Korean – It’s Hot, It’s Snowing!

๐Ÿ“˜ Beginner 22: Weather and Seasons in Korean – It’s Hot, It’s Snowing! Welcome to Day 22! ☀️❄️๐ŸŒง️ Today’s lesson is all about weather and seasons . You’ll learn how to say “It’s hot,” “It’s raining,” and describe the four seasons in Korean naturally and politely. Whether you’re chatting with a friend or watching the weather forecast, these phrases will be very useful! ๐Ÿ“Œ Weather Expressions in Korean English Korean Romanization It’s hot ๋”์›Œ์š” deo-wo-yo It’s cold ์ถ”์›Œ์š” chu-wo-yo It’s sunny ๋ง‘์•„์š” mal-ga-yo It’s cloudy ํ๋ ค์š” heu-ryeo-yo It’s raining ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์™€์š” bi-ga wa-yo It’s snowing ๋ˆˆ์ด ์™€์š” nun-i wa-yo The wind is blowing ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถˆ์–ด์š” ba-ram-i bul-eo-yo --- ๐Ÿ“˜ Seasons in Korean ๋ด„ – spring (bom) ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ – summer (yeo-reum) ๊ฐ€์„ – autumn / fall (ga-eul) ๊ฒจ์šธ – winter (gyeo-ul) Example: ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์ด์—์š”. – It’s summer now. ๊ฐ€์„์—๋Š” ๋‚ ์”จ๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„์š”. – The weather is nice in autumn. --- ๐Ÿ“˜ Weather Sentence Patterns ...

✅Beginner 16: Talking About Hobbies and Interests – I Like Music, I Play Soccer

๐Ÿ“˜ Beginner 16: Talking About Hobbies and Interests – I Like Music, I Play Soccer Welcome to Day 16! ๐ŸŽต⚽ In this lesson, you’ll learn how to talk about your hobbies, what you like or don’t like, and how to share your interests in Korean. Knowing how to say things like “I like music” or “I play soccer” helps you have fun and friendly conversations with native speakers! ๐Ÿ“Œ Key Verb: ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋‹ค (jo-a-ha-da) – to like The verb ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋‹ค means “to like” and is used with objects (things, activities, people). ์ €๋Š” ์Œ์•…์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์š”. – I like music. ์ €๋Š” ์˜ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์š”. – I like movies. ์ €๋Š” ์šด๋™์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์š”. – I like exercise/sports. ๐Ÿ’ก Remember to use the object particle ์„/๋ฅผ after the noun. ๐Ÿ“˜ Common Hobby Vocabulary English Korean Romanization music ์Œ์•… eum-ak movies ์˜ํ™” yeong-hwa exercise/sports ์šด๋™ un-dong reading ๋…์„œ dok-seo travel ์—ฌํ–‰ yeo-haeng cooking ์š”๋ฆฌ yo-ri games ๊ฒŒ์ž„ ge-im soccer ์ถ•๊ตฌ chuk-gu drawing ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ geu-rim g...

✅Beginner 14: Describing People and Things in Korean – It’s Pretty, It’s Big!

๐Ÿ“˜ Beginner 14: Describing People and Things in Korean – It’s Pretty, It’s Big! Welcome to Day 14! ๐ŸŽจ In this lesson, we’ll learn how to use adjectives in Korean to describe people, objects, places, and feelings. You’ll discover how to say “It’s pretty,” “He’s kind,” or “This is delicious!” – phrases you’ll use every day in real-life conversations! ๐Ÿ“Œ Using Adjectives in Korean Korean adjectives are also called descriptive verbs (ํ˜•์šฉ์‚ฌ) because they behave like verbs! They are conjugated like action verbs. You don’t need the verb “to be” separately. They end with polite endings like -์•„์š” / -์–ด์š” . ๐Ÿ“˜ Common Korean Adjectives Korean Romanization Meaning Polite Form ์˜ˆ์˜๋‹ค ye-ppeu-da to be pretty ์˜ˆ๋ป์š” (ye-ppeo-yo) ํฌ๋‹ค keu-da to be big ์ปค์š” (keo-yo) ์ž‘๋‹ค jak-da to be small ์ž‘์•„์š” (jak-a-yo) ๋ง›์žˆ๋‹ค mat-it-da to be delicious ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š” (mat-it-seo-yo) ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋‹ค jae-mi-it-da to be fun ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์–ด์š” (jae-mi-it-seo-yo) ์ฐฉํ•˜๋‹ค chak-...

✅ Beginner 8: Talking About Weather and Seasons in Korean – It’s Hot, It’s Cold!

๐Ÿ“˜ Beginner 8: Talking About Weather and Seasons in Korean – It’s Hot, It’s Cold! Welcome to Day 8 of our Korean journey! ๐ŸŒฆ Talking about the weather is a great way to start small talk and connect with people in any language — Korean is no exception! Today you’ll learn how to describe different kinds of weather and seasons in Korean, ask about the weather, and talk about your favorite time of year. ๐Ÿ“Œ Common Weather Vocabulary Let’s start with the most common weather-related words you’ll use in Korean: English Korean Romanization weather ๋‚ ์”จ nal-ssi sunny ๋ง‘์•„์š” mal-ga-yo cloudy ํ๋ ค์š” heu-ryeo-yo rainy ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์™€์š” bi-ga wa-yo snowy ๋ˆˆ์ด ์™€์š” nun-i wa-yo windy ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถˆ์–ด์š” ba-ram-i bul-eo-yo hot ๋”์›Œ์š” deo-wo-yo cold ์ถ”์›Œ์š” chu-wo-yo cool ์‹œ์›ํ•ด์š” si-won-hae-yo warm ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•ด์š” tta-tteut-hae-yo ๐Ÿ“˜ How to Ask About the Weather Here’s how to ask and answer weather-related questions: ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋‚ ์”จ ์–ด๋•Œ์š”? (o-neul nal-ssi e...

✅Beginner 5: How to Tell the Time in Korean – Hours, Minutes, and Phrases

๐Ÿ“˜ Beginner 5: How to Tell the Time in Korean – Hours, Minutes, and Phrases Welcome to Day 5 of your Korean learning journey! ⏰ Today, we’ll learn how to tell time in Korean – from asking “What time is it?” to saying “It’s 3:30 PM.” Knowing how to read and say time is essential in daily life, from making appointments to catching a train. We’ll cover both hours (์‹œ) and minutes (๋ถ„) , plus the essential time-related phrases you’ll use every day. ๐Ÿ“Œ Hours and Minutes in Korean To tell time in Korean, we use: ⏰ Native Korean numbers for hours ⏰ Sino-Korean numbers for minutes Structure: [Hour] ์‹œ + [Minute] ๋ถ„ e.g., ์„ธ ์‹œ ์‚ผ์‹ญ ๋ถ„ (se si sam-sip bun) = 3:30 ๐Ÿ• Native Korean Numbers (Hours) Number Korean Romanization 1 ํ•œ ์‹œ han si 2 ๋‘ ์‹œ du si 3 ์„ธ ์‹œ se si 4 ๋„ค ์‹œ ne si 5 ๋‹ค์„ฏ ์‹œ da-seot si 6 ์—ฌ์„ฏ ์‹œ yeo-seot si 7 ์ผ๊ณฑ ์‹œ il-gop si 8 ์—ฌ๋Ÿ ์‹œ yeo-deol si 9 ์•„ํ™‰ ์‹œ a-hop si 10 ์—ด ์‹œ yeol si ...

✅Beginner 4: Reading Simple Words – Let’s Start Building Vocabulary!

๐Ÿ“˜ Beginner 4: Reading Simple Words – Let’s Start Building Vocabulary! Welcome to Day 4 of your Korean learning journey! ๐ŸŒŸ You’ve learned all 14 basic consonants and 21 vowels in Hangul. Now it’s time to put those letters together and read real Korean words like a native! In today’s lesson, we’ll help you read, pronounce, and understand basic Korean vocabulary using combinations of the letters you already know. ๐Ÿ“Œ What You’ll Learn Today ✔️ How syllables are combined to form Korean words ✔️ 10 must-know Korean words for beginners ✔️ Romanization + Meaning + Pronunciation help ✔️ Real-life usage examples ✔️ Quiz to test your reading skills! ๐Ÿ”ค How Korean Words Are Formed Korean words are made by combining consonants and vowels into syllable blocks. Each block = 1 syllable, usually in this form: CV = consonant + vowel → ๋‚˜ (na) CVC = consonant + vowel + final consonant → ๋ฐฅ (bap) CCVC or longer → ํ•™๊ต (hak-gyo), ์–ผ๊ตด (eol-gul) The key is to...

✅ Day 24: Transportation in Korean – I Take the Bus, Let’s Ride the Subway!

๐Ÿ“˜ Day 24: Transportation in Korean – I Take the Bus, Let’s Ride the Subway! Welcome back! Today, we're talking about one of the most essential daily life topics: Transportation in Korean ! Whether you’re traveling in Korea or just having a conversation with friends, knowing how to say “I take the bus” or “Let’s ride the subway” is super useful. In this lesson, you’ll learn: ๐Ÿš Korean words for public transportation ๐Ÿš† How to say you’re taking a bus or subway ๐Ÿงญ Practical sentences and real-life dialogues ๐Ÿ“ Mini quiz for review ๐Ÿš‡ Basic Transportation Vocabulary English Korean Romanization bus ๋ฒ„์Šค beo-seu subway ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ  ji-ha-cheol train ๊ธฐ์ฐจ gi-cha taxi ํƒ์‹œ taek-si car ์ž๋™์ฐจ ja-dong-cha bike ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ ja-jeon-geo walk ๋„๋ณด do-bo ๐Ÿ—ฃ️ Useful Transportation Verbs ํƒ€๋‹ค – ta-da → to ride, to take ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋‹ค – nae-ri-da → to get off ๊ฐˆ์•„ํƒ€๋‹ค – ga-ra-ta-da → to transfer ✅ Common Sentences ์ €๋Š” ...

✅ Day 22: Weather and Seasons in Korean – It’s Hot, It’s Snowing!

๐Ÿ“˜ Day 22: Weather and Seasons in Korean – It’s Hot, It’s Snowing! Learning how to talk about the weather and seasons in Korean is super helpful! Whether you're chatting with a friend, planning your day, or just making small talk knowing how to say “It’s cold,” or “It’s snowing” will definitely come in handy. Let’s make this lesson fun, simple, and super useful. ๐Ÿ˜„ By the end, you’ll be able to describe the weather, ask about the seasons, and even tell someone how the weather makes you feel! ๐ŸŒฆ️ Basic Korean Weather Vocabulary English Korean Romanization sunny ๋ง‘์•„์š” mal-ga-yo cloudy ํ๋ ค์š” heu-ryeo-yo raining ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์™€์š” bi-ga wa-yo snowing ๋ˆˆ์ด ์™€์š” nun-i wa-yo windy ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถˆ์–ด์š” ba-ram-i bul-eo-yo hot (weather) ๋”์›Œ์š” deo-wo-yo cold (weather) ์ถ”์›Œ์š” chu-wo-yo ☀️ Simple Weather Sentences ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋‚ ์”จ ์–ด๋•Œ์š”? – o-neul nal-ssi eo-ttae-yo? → How’s the weather today? ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ง‘์•„์š”. – o-neul mal-ga-yo. → It’s sunny today. ...