Welcome to Learn to Speak Korean 1! This course is for beginner students who are familiar with the Korean alphabet, Hangeul. Through this course students will learn the skills essential for daily interactions with Koreans while living in Korea. This course consists of six modules, and each module is composed of five units. Each unit has vocabulary, grammar and expressions, conversation practice, video clips, quizzes, a workbook, and vocabulary lists. In order to assist students with their independent studies, Korean learning materials such as lecture notes, workbooks, and vocabulary lists detailing each day’s lecture are also provided. The vocabulary lists are accompanied by English, Chinese, and Japanese translations. I hope that you enjoy all this program has to offer over the next six weeks. After studying in this program, you will be able to have a real Korean conversation with your newly acquired knowledge of the Korean language. Thank you! Your Course Team Chief Contents Developer: Sang Mee Han Contents Developers: Bock Ja Lee, Yoo Kyung Choi, Ha Min Cho, Ju Eun Kim Production Assistants: Jin Hee Kim, Eun Hye Kim
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Learn to Speak Korean 1
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Introducing One's Hometown
In this module, you will learn how to introduce your hometown in Korean. After completing the lesson, you will be able to talk about the location of a person or object and to express the specific look and feel of one’s hometown.
Meet the Instructors
Sang Mee HanProfessor
Korean Language Institute
안녕하십니까? Hello, everyone! In our last module,
you learned about introducing your friends.
Now in this module, you will learn how to introduce your hometown.
Where is your hometown?
How is that place?
How would you introduce your hometown in Korean?
Let's get started with this topic.
First, in this unit,
you will study how to express the location of a person or a thing.
Let's watch a video.
The students are talking about their hometown,
especially about the things found there.
Listen carefully.
What did they say?
Let's check their dialogue.
The first person asked, 고향에 무엇이 있어요?
It means What is in your hometown?
Then the other person answered, 고향에 바다가 있어요.
My hometown is on the ocean.
Please listen again.
고향에 무엇이 있어요? 고향에 바다가 있어요.
In order to learn these expressions,
we will first look at some vocabulary concerning location.
위 means 'on' or 'on top of' something.위
아래 means 'under'. 아래
앞 to be 'in front of' something. 앞
뒤 which means 'behind'. 뒤
안 means 'in or inside of' something. 안
밖 is 'outside of' something. 밖
옆 is 'besides'. 옆
근처 is to be 'near' or 'nearby'. 근처
Now listen and repeat after me.
Let's check your vocabulary.
What is it?
Please look at the picture and say the word in Korean.
Okay, Excellent job.
Now, let's learn how to express the location of a person or
an object using these words.
We use '에 있어요' to show location.
'에' is a particle placed after place nouns
to show the location of a person or an object.
'있어요' has two meanings.
First, it can show that the speaker has something.
It can also mean that there is something, or something exists in a specific place.
The '에 있어요' in today's expression has the second meaning,
that something exists somewhere.
To summarize, when you want to explain the location of a person or
an object specifically,
put the place particle '에' after the location words which we just practiced.
Let's look at the examples one by one.
In some cases, a person or thing is on top of something else.
In the picture, the book is on the desk.
How can you say this in Korean?
The sentence structure of Korean is quite different from that of English.
In English, we say, 'on the desk', but in Korean, it is '책상 위에'.
We say 'the desk' first and then the location word 'on'.
So we say '책이 책상 위에 있어요'.
Let's continue and look at other examples.
In this picture, the bag is under the chair.
How do you say this in Korean?
That's right!
Change the word order of 'under the chair'
to 'the chair' first and then 'under' to become '의자 아래에'.
'가방이 의자 아래에 있어요'.
Now, how can we explain the location of the house?
There is a restaurant in the picture, and the house is in front of the restaurant.
So, in Korean,
the correct form is, '집이 식당 앞에 있어요'.
Now, let's explain the location of the restaurant.
This time, the restaurant is the subject of the sentence.
Yes, '식당이 집 뒤에 있어요'.
The restaurant is behind the house.
Next, let's look at when a person or
an object is inside or outside something else.
In this picture, there is a bag, and a wallet is inside the bag.
Then, it is '지갑이 가방 안에 있어요'.
Here in the picture, the bicycle is outside the house.
And in Korean, the order is '집 밖에'.
so we say, '자전거가 집 밖에 있어요'.
We can see a store located next to the house in this picture.
Then how can we explain the location of the store?
Right. '가게가 집 옆에 있어요'.
Lastly, look at the location of park in this picture.
We say, '공원이 집 근처에 있어요'.
How was it?
It looks a little complicated, but I'm sure you had fun.
Now it's your turn to practice.
Now listen to the questions and answer.
Now it's time to do some speaking practice using the expressions
we have learned so far.
First, take a look at the dialogue.
고향에 무엇이 있어요? What is in your hometown?
고향에 바다가 있어요. My hometown is on the ocean.
Now, listen and read after me
Let's practice together.
Listen to and answer my questions
Well done.
Now, ask your friend a question and let them answer.
Very good!
Now can you answer my question?
방에 무엇이 있어요?
Excellent work!
You can answer with '책상이 있어요' or with '침대가 있어요'.
Next, you will watch short video clips demonstrating the expressions we learned.
Listen carefully.
How did you do today?
In this unit, you learned how to express the location of a person or an object.
Remember that the Korean word order is different from English
when you use location words.
That's all for this unit, and next time,
we will study how to describe the look and feel of one's home town.
안녕히 계십시오.
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