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Learn to Speak Korean 1

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Yonsei University

Learn to Speak Korean 1

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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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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.

2.2 Lecture10:03

Meet the Instructors

Sang Mee Han
Professor
Korean Language Institute

안녕하세요. Hello, everyone.

In our last unit,

you learned how to explain the location of a person or a thing.

In this unit, you will learn how to express the look and

feel of one's hometown.

First, let's watch a short video.

Two people are talking about the weather in their hometown.

What did they say in the video?

고향 날씨가 어때요? How is the weather in your hometown?

날씨가 더워요. It's hot.

Listen one more time.

고향 날씨가 어때요?, 날씨가 더워요.

How is your hometown? Is the weather hot? Or is it beautiful?

How can you describe the look and feel of a place?

First, let's learn vocabulary concerning weather.

덥다, to be hot, 덥다

춥다, to be cold, 춥다

아름답다, to be beautiful, 아름답다

가깝다, to be close, 가깝다

쉽다, to be easy, 쉽다

어렵다, to be difficult, 어렵다

귀엽다, to be cute, 귀엽다

Now listen and repeat after me.

Let's check your vocabulary.

Look at the picture and say the words in Korean.

The words we just practiced are the verbs that have verb stems ending in 'ㅂ'.

From now on, we will study the conjugation of 'ㅂ' verbs.

Some action verbs or

descriptive verbs that end with 'ㅂ' are irregularly conjugated.

We will call these verbs ' 브verbs'.

These verbs include the ones we learned today,

such as '덥다', '춥다', '아릅답다',

'가깝다', '쉽다', '어렵다' and '귀엽다'

The 'ㅂ' of the verb stem in these verbs changes to '우'

when it meets an ending that starts with a vowel.

For example, when we change '덥다' to the '-어요' form,

the verb stem '덥' meets '-어요'.

So the 'ㅂ' changes to 우 because of the vowel

'어' in '-어요'.

and then '우' and '-어요' are contracted to '-워요',

so the form becomes '더워요'.

Then how would you conjugate '춥다'?

Yes, it's the same as '덥다'.

The 'ㅂ' in '춥' changes to '우' because of

the vowel '어' in '-어요'.

and when '우' meets '-어요' it is contracted to '-워요'.

So, we get '추워요'.

Let's change '아름답다'.

The same rule applies.

'아름답' meets '-어요'

so the verb stem ending in 'ㅂ' changes to use '우'.

'아름다워요'.

How about '가깝다'?

Right. It becomes '가까워요'.

However, not all 'ㅂ' verbs go through a change to '우' when they meet a vowel.

For example, action verbs like '입다', '잡다'

or descriptive verbs like '좁다' have regular conjugation,

so there is no change to '우'.

So, when you conjugate these verbs to a declaritive form,

'입다' becomes '입어요',

'잡다' changes to '잡아요',

and '좁다' becomes '좁아요'.

It's quite complicated,

so make sure you memorize the irregular 'ㅂ' verbs to avoid making a mistake.

Do you think you can do it?

Now it's time to practice.

Make a sentence with the given words.

Now listen to an answer the questions.

Now it's time to do some speaking practice

using the expressions we have learned so far.

First take a look at the dialogue.

고향 날씨가 어때요? How is the weather in your hometown?

날씨가 더워요. It is hot.

Now listen and repeat.

This time, please answer my questions.

Excellent.

Now, ask your friend a question and let them answer.

Well done.

Now can you answer my question?

고향 날씨가 어때요?

Right, your answer could be '날씨가 더워요' or '날씨가 추워요'.

Next you will watch some dialogues using the expressions we learned.

Listen carefully.

How was it?

In this unit, you learned how to express the look and feel of your hometown.

Did you have fun describing your hometown in Korean?

In our next unit, you will continue to learn how to describe your hometown

but using negative forms.

See you next time!

안녕히 계십시오.

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