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Learning Korean through conversation: Basic question

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Learning Korean through conversation: Basic question


์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! Hello, this is Hoorimi from BDB KOREAN. In this blog you will learn how to ask basic questions using new vocabulary and grammar. Let's start!






1. DIALOGUE

Conversation 1


๊ฐ€: ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.ย ์ œ ์ด๋ฆ„์€ ์ง€์ˆ˜์˜ˆ์š”. ์ด๋ฆ„์ด ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”?ย  = Hello. My name is Jisoo. What is your name?

๋‚˜: ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ€์›Œ์š”! ์ €๋Š” ๋„๋ฉ”๋‹ˆ์นด์˜ˆ์š”.ย  = Nice to meet you. I am Domenica.

๊ฐ€: ํ˜น์‹œ ๋ช‡ ์‚ด์ด์—์š”? = How old are you?

๋‚˜: ์ €๋Š”ย 25์‚ด์ด์—์š”. ์ง€์ˆ˜์”จ๋Š”์š”? = I am 25. And you?

๊ฐ€: ์ •๋ง์š”? ์ €๋„ 25์‚ด์ด์—์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ƒ์ผ์ด ์–ธ์ œ์˜ˆ์š”?ย  = Really? I am 25 too. So, when is your birthday ?

๋‚˜: 2์›” 13์ผ์ด์—์š”. = It is February 13th.

๊ฐ€: ์ €๋Š”ย 3์›” 10์ผ์ด์—์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๋„๋ฉ”๋‹ˆ์นด๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๋‹ˆ์˜ˆ์š”*! = Mine is March 10th. So, you are older than me*.

๋‚˜: ์•„๋‹ˆ์˜ˆ์š”. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ฐ˜๋งํ•ด์š”*!ย 

= No, Let's use banmal*.


๊ฐ€: ํ•˜ํ•˜, ์•Œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”!ย 

= Haha, okay!


*์–ธ๋‹ˆย : older sister

When we are both a women, and you're older than me, I can call you like that.

*๋ฐ˜๋งย : casual expression

Reflection exercises are available in the Apply dialog.


Conversation 1

**if you want to read more conversation dialogues, click here.



Conversation 2


๊ฐ€: ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๋„๋ฉ”๋‹ˆ์นด์”จ๋Š” ์–ด๋””์— ์‚ด์•„์š”?ย  = So, Dominica, where do you live?

๋‚˜: ์ €๋Š” ํ™๋Œ€์— ์‚ด์•„์š”.ย  = I live in Hongdae.

๊ฐ€: ์ €๋Š” ํ•ฉ์ •์— ์‚ด์•„์š”. ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š”! ๋„๋ฉ”๋‹ˆ์นด์”จ๋Š” ์–ธ์ œย ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ์™”์–ด์š”?ย  = I live in Hapjeong. It's close! Domenica, when did you come to Korea?

๋‚˜: ์ €๋Š”ย 2023๋…„ 1์›”์— ์™”์–ด์š”.ย  = I came in January 2023.

๊ฐ€: ์šฐ์™€, ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹์•„์š”!ย ย ย ย  = Wow, that's cool!ย ย ย 

๋‚˜: ์ง€์ˆ˜์”จ๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋ž‘ ๊ฐ™์ด ์‚ด์•„์š”?ย  = Who do you live with, Jisoo?ย 

๊ฐ€: ๋„ค, ์ €๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด๋ž‘ ๊ฐ™์ด ์‚ด์•„์š”.ย  = I live with my family.

๋‚˜: ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด ๋ช‡ ๋ช…์ด์—์š”? = How many people are there in your family?

๊ฐ€: 5๋ช…์ด์—์š”. ์—„๋งˆ, ์•„๋น , ์˜ค๋น , ์—ฌ๋™์ƒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”. = There are 5 people. I have mom, dad, brother and sister.

๋‚˜: ์™€, ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์•„์š”! ์ €๋Š” ํ˜ผ์ž ์‚ด์•„์š”. = Wow, there are so many! I live alone.

๊ฐ€: ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ž์ฃผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜์š”! ์ „ํ™”๋ฒˆํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”? = Then, let's meet often! What is your phone number?ย  ย 

๋‚˜: ์ข‹์•„์š”! ์ œ ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ๋Š” 010-3310-1789์˜ˆ์š”. = Great! My number is 010-3310-1789.

๊ฐ€: ์ €์žฅํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋‚˜์ค‘์— ์—ฐ๋ฝํ• ๊ฒŒ์š”! = I saved it. I will contact you later!



Conversation 2

**if you want to read more conversation dialogues, click here.



2. GRAMMAR


1. ASKING QUESTIONS


  • ๋ญ = use to make "what" questions


Form:

๋ญ + verb


Examples: ๋ญ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”? = What did you do?

์ด๊ฑฐ ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”? = What is this? ๋ญ ๋จน์„๋ž˜์š”? = What do you want to eat?


  • ์–ธ์ œ = use to make "when" questions


Form:

์–ธ์ œ + verb


Examples: ์–ธ์ œ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”? = When did you do it? ์–ธ์ œ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜์š”? = When do you get up?

์˜ํ™”๋ฅผ ์–ธ์ œ ๋ณผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”? = When are we going to watch the movie?


  • ์–ด๋””ย = use to make "where" questions


Form:

์–ด๋”” + verb


Examples: ์–ด๋”” ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”? = Where do you want to go?

์–ด๋”” ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”? = Where are you going?

์—ญ์ด ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”? = Where is the station?

2. SINO-KOREAN NUMBERS


Use:

  • price

  • numbers (bus, phone)

  • temperature ๋„

  • full date ๋…„, ์›”, ์ผ

  • minutes ๋ถ„, seconds ์ดˆ

  • age ์„ธ / (*age ์‚ด is used with native number)

  • months

  • anything over 100

์ผ = 1

์œก = 6

์ด = 2

์น  = 7

์‚ผ = 3

ํŒ” = 8

์‚ฌ = 4

๊ตฌ = 9

์˜ค = 5

์‹ญ 10

์‹ญ์น  = 17 (10+7)

ํŒ”์‹ญ์˜ค = 85 (8+10+5)


  • ๋ฐฑ = 100

  • ์ฒœ = 1.000

  • ๋งŒ = 10.000

  • ์‹ญ๋งŒ = 100.000

  • ๋ฐฑ๋งŒ = 1.000.000

  • ์ฒœ๋งŒ = 10.000.000

  • ์–ต = 100.000.000

  • ์‹ญ์–ต = 1.000.000.000


3. COUNTERS

๋ช… / ๋ฒˆ = counting marker

๋ช…

a counter for people

๋ฒˆ

a counter for behaviors/actions/numbering

Form: object that we count + number + counting marker


Examples:

  • ์‚ฌ๋žŒ ํ•œ ๋ช… = One person

  • ์‚ฌ๋žŒ ์„ธ ๋ช… = Three person

  • ๋‚ด์ผ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘ ๋ช… ๋งŒ๋‚  ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”. = I'm going to meet 2 friends tomorrow.

  • ๋™์ƒ์ด ๋‹ค์„ฏ ๋ช… ์žˆ์–ด์š”. = I have five 5 siblings.

  • ๊ทธ ์˜ํ™”๋ฅผ ์—ฌ์„ฏ ๋ฒˆ ๋ดค์–ด์š”. = I've watched this movie 6 times.

  • ์–ด์ œ ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฅผ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋งˆ์…จ์–ด์š”. = I had a cup of coffee yesterday.

  • ์ €๋Š” 125 ๋ฒˆ ๋ฒ„์Šค๋ฅผ ํƒ€์š”. = I take bus number 125.



3. PRACTICE MORE


Applied conversation / ๋ฐ˜๋ง


๊ฐ€: ํ˜น์‹œ ์ด๋ฆ„์ด ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”?ย 

๋‚˜: ์ €๋Š” ์•„๋ฆฌ์˜ˆ์š”.ย 

๊ฐ€: ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ€์›Œ์š” ์•„๋ฆฌ์”จ! ์ €๋Š” ์ง€์ฒ ์ด์—์š”.

ย ย ย ย ย ํ˜น์‹œ ๋‚˜์ด๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜์„ธ์š”?

๋‚˜: ์ €๋Š” 22์‚ด์ด์š”. 02๋…„์ƒ์ด์—์š”.ย 

๊ฐ€: ์™€! ์ €๋ž‘ ๋™๊ฐ‘์ด์—์š”. ํ˜น์‹œ ์ƒ์ผ์€ ์–ธ์ œ์˜ˆ์š”?

๋‚˜: 5์›”์ด์š”.

๊ฐ€: ๋Œ€๋ฐ•! ์ €๋„์˜ˆ์š”. ์™€, ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ˜๋งย ์จ์š”!ย 

๋‚˜: ์ข‹์•„์š”!ย 

ย ย ย ย ย ์ง€์ฒ ์ด๋Š” ์–ด๋””์— ์‚ด์•„?

๊ฐ€: ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋‚จ์— ์‚ด์•„. ๋„ˆ๋Š”?

๋‚˜: ๋‚˜๋Š” ์„œ์ดˆ๋™์— ์‚ด์•„.ย 

๊ฐ€: ์šฐ์™€! ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๊ฐ€๊น๋„ค. ์ฃผ๋ง์— ๋งŒ๋‚ ๊นŒ?

๋‚˜: ๊ทธ๋ž˜ ์ข‹์•„.ย 

๊ฐ€: ์ „ํ™”๋ฒˆํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ญ์•ผ?ย 

๋‚˜: ๋‚ด ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ๋Š” 010-2345-1234์•ผ.ย 

๊ฐ€: ์˜ค์ผ€์ด, ์ €์žฅํ–ˆ์–ด! ์นดํ†ก๋„ ์นœ์ถ”ํ• ๊ฒŒ.ย 




*์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜์„ธ์š”? - What is your~?

ex) ์ด๋ฆ„์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜์„ธ์š”? = ์ด๋ฆ„์ด ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”? = what is your name.

๋‚˜์ด๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜์„ธ์š”? = ๋ช‡ ์‚ด์ด์—์š”? = how old are you?(what is your age).


*02๋…„์ƒ์ด์—์š”. Recently, Koreans have been asking "How old are you?" as "What year are you born?" because "Korean age" has recently been eliminated, and Koreans ask when they were born for clarity.


4. VOCABULARY

  • ๋ญ = What

  • ์–ธ์ œ = When

  • ์–ด๋”” = Where

  • ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ = Who

  • ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ = How

  • ๋ช‡ ์‚ด์ด์—์š”? = How old are you?

  • ๋ช‡ ๋ช… = How many people

  • ๋…„ = Year

  • ์›” = Month

  • ์ผ = Day

  • ์ƒ์ผ = Birthday

  • ์ •๋ง = Really (Casual) / Indeed (Formal)

  • ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ = As it is

  • ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด (shorter version - ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ) = Then

  • ํ˜น์‹œ = By any chance

  • ์นœ๊ตฌ = Friend

  • ์‚ด๋‹ค = Live

  • ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค = Close, Nearby

  • ์˜ค๋‹ค = Come

  • ๋„ˆ๋ฌด = Too, So

  • ์ข‹๋‹ค = Good, Fine

  • ๊ฐ€์กฑ = Family

  • ์—„๋งˆ = Mom

  • ์•„๋น  = Dad

  • ์˜ค๋น  = Brother

  • ์—ฌ๋™์ƒ = Sister (Younger)

  • ๋งŽ๋‹ค = Many, A lot of

  • ์ž์ฃผ = Often

  • ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋‹ค = Meet, See

  • ์ „ํ™”๋ฒˆํ˜ธ = Phone number

  • ์—ฐ๋ฝ = Contact

  • ๋™๊ฐ‘ = same age

  • ์นดํ†ก = korean texting application

  • ์นœ์ถ” = abbreviation of '์นœ๊ตฌ์ถ”๊ฐ€'. that means "add friend".


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tomleecomi
6์›” 08์ผ

์ข‹์€ ๊ธ€ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋กœ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์› ์–ด์š”. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์ด ๋งŽ์•„์„œ ์ดˆ๋ณด์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋„์›€์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ์ €๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋” ์˜๊ฑธ ์ž๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋Œ€ํ™” ์—ฐ์Šต ์ž๋ฃŒ์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋” ์ข‹์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋„ค์š”. ๐Ÿ˜Š

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tomleecomi
1์›” 31์ผ

์ด ๋Œ€ํ™” ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์ดˆ๋ณด์ž์—๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ง ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๋„ค์š”, ํŠนํžˆ ์‹ค์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ์ผ์ƒ์—์„œ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์‹œ๋“ค์ด์š”. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ์Šตํ•˜๋ฉด ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๊ฐ€ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ‹ฐ๋น„๋ชฌ TVmon ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ด๋‚˜ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜ํ™” ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ž์‹  ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋ ์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”.

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