"Take Your First Step into Korean Learning!"
Main topics of the Level 1 course:
- Basic greetings
- How to count numbers in Korean
- Basic grammar for forming your first Korean sentences
- Present and past tense
- How to say "who", "why", and "how" in Korean
Table of Contents
Average lesson length: 13 minutes
Lesson 1. Hello. Thank you. / ์๋
ํ์ธ์. ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
Lesson 2. Yes. No. What? / ๋ค. ์๋์. ๋ค?
Lesson 3. Good-bye. See you. / ์๋
ํ ๊ฐ์ธ์. ์๋
ํ ๊ณ์ธ์. ์๋
.
Lesson 4. Iโm sorry. Excuse me. / ์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ๊ธฐ์.
Lesson 5. Itโs me. What is it? / ์ ์์. ๋ญ์์?
Lesson 6. What is this? This is โฆ / ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋ญ์์? ์ด๊ฑฐโฆ
Lesson 7. This, That, It / ์ด, ๊ทธ, ์
Lesson 8. Itโs NOT me. / ์๋์์.
Lesson 9. Particles for Topic and Subject / ์, ๋, ์ด, ๊ฐ
Lesson 10. have, donโt have, there is, there isnโt / ์์ด์, ์์ด์
Lesson 11. Please give me. / ์ฃผ์ธ์.
Lesson 12. Itโs delicious. Thank you for the food. / ๋ง์์ด์. ์ ๋จน๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋จน์์ต๋๋ค.
Lesson 13. I want to โฆ / -๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
Lesson 14. What do you want to do? / ๋ญ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์?
Lesson 15. Sino-Korean Numbers / ์ผ, ์ด, ์ผ, ์ฌ
Lesson 16. Basic Present Tense / -์์, -์ด์, -์ฌ์
Lesson 17. Past Tense / -์/์/์์ด์ (ํ์ด์)
Lesson 18. Particles for Location / ์, ์์
Lesson 19. When / ์ธ์
Lesson 20. Native Korean numbers / ํ๋, ๋, ์
, ๋ท
Lesson 21. Negative Sentences / ์, -์ง ์๋ค
Lesson 22. ํ๋ค verbs
Lesson 23. Who? / ๋๊ตฌ?
Lesson 24. Why? How? / ์? ์ด๋ป๊ฒ?
Lesson 25. From A To B, From C Until D / -์์/๋ถํฐ -๊น์ง
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About lesson 30 and the question from ํ์ฐ about why ํ์ฅ (make-up) + ์ค (room) =
ํ์ฅ์ค = toilet, bathroom in a lot of languages. It might come from French, you can say “faire sa toilette” or “se laver” meaning “washing yourself”, making yourself pretty/clean. The place where you do it is “la salle de bain” (the bathroom) but perhaps in the old days it was the room to do your “toilette” (making yourself clean/pretty. I don’t know, it makes sense for me ^^.
This has probably been asked before – or I am being dense but; in Lesson 13 & 14 there is the word ๋ช ์ฌ in the lesson title – but I can’t see where this comes into the lesson. Please can anyone help me with this? Thank you!
Here is a whatsapp group for beginners and also intermediate ! Welcome ๐
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๋ช ์ฌ means “noun” in English
Adjectives/Descriptive verbs + -ใด + ๋ช ์ฌ
” ์์ ์ง” is an example used in Lesson 13.
=> ์์ is the adjective and ์ง is the ๋ช ์ฌ.
I hope this was helpful ๐
Super, great! Thank you! I feel rather embarrassed that I didn’t figure that one out!! Thank you again.
That’s alright. You’re welcome!!
Hi! Here is a link to Kakao chat where native speakers help us out learning Korean.
There are several regular group study sessions where you can talk with Korean learners and Korean natives!
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์๋ ํ์ธ์ TTMIK Team, ์ ๋ ๋ ๋ฒจ 3 ๋๋ฌ์ด์. ๋ ๋ฒจ 4 ์์ํ๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์ ์ฒด ๋ ๋ฒจ์ ๋ฐ๋ณตํ ๊ฑฐ์์. ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค ๐
for ๊ฐ if you are saying “like” in a sentence but not referring to liking something or comparing something do you still use ๊ฐ ??
No you wont
Hello! I had a question about lesson 9 and using “-ใด ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์”. Can we use this to form negative sentences as well? For example, if I want to say, I don’t think they talked, can I say “์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ ๊ฒ์ ์ ๊ฐ์์”?
Yes you can
it would be ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ ์ ํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์, with the ํ๋ค being past tense (ํ).
and you would add ์ฐ๋ฆฌ before that**
This is very useful. just wondering if ๊ณ ๋์ is being covered as I couldn’t find it anywhere in the courses here.
O que seria ๊ณ ๋์ ?
Hmmm do you use ์กด๋๋ง or ๋ฐค๋ง with your parents/ aunts&uncles?
๋ฐ๋ง*
It depends .. usually since they are older and respected people children should use ์กด๋๋ง but since they are family members and the closest people to each other many use ๋ฐ๋ง … I know this as a asian person. I speak Hindi and it’s said that we should speak formally with our elders but I and most of the people I know use informal speech.
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Hi Guys,
I created a kakaotalk group, please join so we can all help each other.
Link below.
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I have a question about level 3 lesson 6. Does the use of (์ผ)ใน๊ฒ์ also apply to conditionals where you aren’t involving the other person at all? For example if I wanted to say “If I have time I’ll study later” could I say something like “๋์ค์ ์๊ฐ์ด ์์ผ๋ฉด ๊ณต๋ถํ ๊ฒ์” ? Or is it better to use ๊ณต๋ถํ ๊ฑฐ์์? Does it not matter?
By the way thank you guys so much for these lessons! They’re insanely helpful.
Actually์ ๊ฒ์ is like a decision we make in the presence of someone. ์ ๊ฑฐ์์ Is simply a future tense. You can use either one depending on situation. If you are talking to someone and come to this agreement then you would want to use ์ ๊ฒ์ so that you’re telling the other that this will be the case if you want to give your thoughts then go ahead. And you’ll use ์ ๊ฑฐ์์ when it’s just what you’re saying without anyone’s participation. ..try to understand and feel the situation that’s the only best way to learn a language ๐
I think that if you are determined that you’re going to study later and no one can change that decision, then you can use ๊ฑฐ์์. But if you’re talking to someone and want to see what they have to say about it or how they react then you can say ๊ฒ์. I’m sorry if I’m wrong ๐
Thanks for replying! I’m still confused though lol. Because me studying later is contingent on whether or not I have the time, so I’m not really “determined” in that sense. But the added context of talking to someone helps! I’ll use ๊ฒ์ if I’m talking to someone and I want their opinion.
Oh I see…. then I guess you can use ๊ฑฐ์์ . Because you’re already mentioning “์์ผ๋ฉด” from which the meaning is clear that you will study ONLY IF you have the time. And another point I’d like to add is you need not use ์กด๋๋ง when talking to yourself. I hope I could help ๐
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Hey in lesson 16 ,what’s the difference between sijakhaeyo and sijakhaseyo
The first one “sijakhaeyo” is the present tense of the verb to start, to begin (sigjakhada) and the second one is the imperative.
์์ํด์ is a more generic “start”, while ์์ํ์ธ์ is honorific so it shows more politeness and is for when you’re talking about someone else.
I think the difference is that the first one โโ์์ํด์โโ means โโstart itโโ ,and โโ์์ํ์ธ์โโ means kind of โโgo aheadโโ
I hope you get the meaning! ^^
Great lessons! Well explained that make listeners easily understood.
However, I have a question for level 3-23. For the word ๋ฐฉํ, I understand that it means School Vacation. But the Chinese character ๆพๅญธ doesnโt mean Vacation. So, Iโm confused.
In lesson 23, they explained in the beginning that the hanja characters meanings may have different meanings from the modern spoken Chinese. As have seen ๆพๅญธ is indeed after school in modern Chinese. However, the ancient meaning (the hanja meaning) might have been vacation and maybe it is for this reason that in Korean, ๆพๅญธ means vaccation.
Hope it helped, have a nice day !
Georges H
Yes, I understand what you mean. The meaning of Chinese characters are only good for a references in Korean language. Thank you for your explanation๐
Hello TTMIK and all Fans of Korean language!
I’m just stuck in one grammar conjugation. I learned about irregular verbs ใ and in
workbook level 3 lesson 11 I came across: ์ด๋ ต๋ค~์ด๋ ค์ด ๊ฒ as a noun form and can’t figure out how is it correct if according to rules verbs ending with ใ does not change into ์ฐ when is followed by suffix with consonant :ใด in this example. Could you explain it please. Thank you๐
For ์ด๋ ค์ด ๊ฒ, ์ด๋ ต๋ค meets with -(์ผ)ใด ๊ฒ. So it’s actually followed by suffix with vowel, and could follow the ใ irregularity rule.
It’s the same with ์ด๋ ต๋ค meets with -(์ผ)ใน ๊ฑฐ์์ in future tense
Let me explain quickly, the verb is ์ด๋ ต๋ค, as you can see the verb stem is ๋ค and not ใ , so when you turn is into a noun the verb stem ๋ค disappears and you add ใด ๊ฒ. (so ใ is not modified)
Hope it helped, have a nice day !
Georges Heng
Awesome course! Finally got premium and it was worth it! ๋ค ๊ฐ์ฌํด์!
HI ! I am currently on level 3, I would love to practice with other person, is someone interested? AAA
Hi, are the slots still available?
me
Me
Hi! I’m interested in group study. Can I join?
hi, I started studying again, I’m on level 3 now, we can be study buddies if you want. Here’s my Telegram Channel
https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAETOEJcFJVZgqawPtA < ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ง๋์! โบ๏ธ
yes why not
Hi! I was wondering if I could study with you, its easier to learn as a group than alone.
Letโs practice together
Hi, i want to, what your prefer, ig, snap?
hi, do you want to practice together? if so my snapchat is mariam_ayee
whats the right one?
my bad i gave the wrong snapchat
omg we have the same name, i will text u
How much time did you spend to get to that level ?
You can do 2 lessons a day starting from level 1, it will only take 30minutes totally, and you can reach here in about 45 days..
I did 3 lessons a day from level 1 and in 30 days I reached in level 3.
It get harder and harder after every lesson but you have t practice.
Mรชme si je suis au niveau 7, it is good to do this review.
์๋ ํ์ธ์ ์ ์๋. ๊ด์ฐฎ๋ค๋ฉด ์ง๋ฌธ์ด ์์ด์.
1๋ฌธ์ฅ: ์ ์ ์๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์ปคํผ์ ์น์ด์ผ ๋ผ์.
2๋ฌธ์ฅ: ์ ์ ์๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์ปคํผ์ ์ณ์ผ ๋ผ์.
์์ ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์. ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
So can you explain to me why you put a support on “sleep” (sorry, I don’t have my keyboard in Korean) is a way to convert the verb in a adjetive???
They added ๊ธฐ to ์ because when you use that grammar you have to attach -๊ธฐ to the verb stem, which in this case, is ์.
Conjugation: -๊ธฐ ์ ์ = Before doing something
Ex) ๊ณต๋ถํ๋ค (to study) changes to ๊ณต๋ถํ๊ธฐ ์ ์ = before studying
I learned this by studying the content the TTMIK website and their YouTube. Also, this grammar structure can be found in level 3 lesson 10.
i think is the firts one, he <3
I have a question about the irregular ใ conjugation into nouns. What is the rule for some of them not losing the ใ for example ๋๋ค = to help โ ๋ + -๋ ๊ฒ = ๋๋ ๊ฒ and others do, for example, ์ด๋ ต๋ค โ ์ด๋ ค์ฐ + -๋ ๊ฒ = ์ด๋ ค์ด ๊ฒ . These are from the workbook corresponding to lesson 11. Thanks.
๋๋ค is an active verb. If you want to convert it to noun, in present condition, it would be ๋+ -๋ ๊ฒ -> ๋๋ ๊ฒ (not following ใ irregularity rule). If you want change it into noun in past tense condition, it would be ๋๋ค + -(์ผ)ใด ๊ฒ -> ๋์ ๊ฒ(following ใ irregularity rule)
And for ์ด๋ ต๋ค, it’s descriptive verb, and to convert it into noun, you conjugate it with -(์ผ)ใด ๊ฒ, so it’s changed to ์ด๋ ค์ด ๊ฒ
Things started to get interesting in this level! I love how you guys explained all the nuances. I’m also using a book of short traditional Korean stories in simple language and I love how that book and these lessons complement each other so well. I learn vocabulary faster by reading real texts and I find that I can understand more and more with all of these verb endings. They also make me understand better the minds of Koreans. Vocabulary is usually the most difficult for me when learning a new language, that’s why I really love the word builder lessons. But in general, I love grammar the most, and I find Korean grammar really interesting. Thank you so much for all the work you put into this, TTMIK is really the best resource for learning Korean by myself that I’ve found. I know these lessons were recorded a long time ago (iPhone 4? nobody at TTMIK is married or have children? lol), but if I can add a little suggestion, I hope you will do more of the waiting before saying the answer in Korean, so that we can think and then reply before you do. Also, I do like it when you repeat the same words for a few episodes for the examples, that’s how we get to finally memorise the words! I’m really excited about continuing learning Korean, can’t wait to dive into level 4. The more I learn, the more there seems to be, but that’s okay, because it’s a whole new language that I’m learning, and I love how different it is to all the languages I already know. By the way, I never listen to the lessons in the morning, I usually listen to them while getting ready for bed, and I like to repeat them several times in different order. Again, thank you, really, I’m so grateful that you guys decided to start TTMIK and I’m proud of you for doing such a fantastic work and so consistently. Thank you!
can you recommend some books that you read?
hey Marรญa, I’m interested in reading that book you mentioned. Can you tell me the name of it?
Hi hyunwoo I saw you on koreanenglish man i love your classes thank you:)
In level 3 lesson 25 the woman (Kyong-ho?) ends each example with a rise in intonation. Does the ending ๋ค์ always rise at the end?
Yes. Word builders are fabulous! Moe please…
It might be of interest to everyone that in 1984, when i went to Korea and started learning Korean, they still taught that -์ was only used by women!!!!!
Wow, I would never imagine that. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much for this course TTMIK .I really appreciate everything you guys are doing to help so many people learn Korean.Thank you once again ๐
is there an easy way to download the MP3 files, please?
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