✍️ Intermediate Day 22: Expressing Hearsay – ~다고 해요 / ~(이)라고 해요
📘 Intermediate Day 22: Expressing Hearsay – ~다고 해요 / ~(이)라고 해요 Welcome to Day 22 of the Intermediate Korean series! 🗣️ Today, we’ll learn how to report what someone said in Korean using indirect speech. We use the patterns: ~다고 해요 – “(They) said that…” (used with verbs/adjectives) ~(이)라고 해요 – “(They) said (noun)…” (used with nouns) These patterns are essential for relaying information, quoting people, or summarizing what you heard. Let’s learn how to use them naturally! 📘 1. What is Indirect Speech in Korean? When you tell someone what another person said, you use indirect speech – instead of quoting word-for-word, you summarize the idea. In English: He said, “I’m a student.” → He said that he is a student . In Korean: “저는 학생이에요.” → 학생이라고 했어요 . 📘 2. ~다고 해요 – Reporting Verbs & Adjectives 🔧 Conjugation: Action verb + ㄴ/는다고 해요 Descriptive adjective + 다고 해요 Examples: 친구가 한국에 간다고 해요 . chin-gu-ga han-guk-e gan-da-go hae-yo...