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Sometimes it’s hard not to feel stuck in a rut, especially if you are self-studying and don’t have a clear lesson plan to follow. Or maybe you feel tired of what you are currently doing. Trying out new methods to learn Korean is a good idea to revitalize your motivation! You can decide to pair a new technique alongside what you have already or swap entirely if it works for you.

Here are some new methods I have heard about, so let’s go through them and see if any could work for you. And don’t feel bad if some don’t work, everyone has their own learning style and limits on the time and effort they can put into learning!

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After getting down Sino-Korean and native numbers, another hurdle is right there for beginners- Korean counters. Counter particles have to be attached to the word you are counting and it isn’t as simple as a universal counter.

There are a lot of different counter particles to be used for animals, people, books, glasses, and more. Each is either paired with sino or native numbers. Today I’ll cover the most popular and widely used ones!

I know it seems a lot but in English we have something similar; slices of pizza, pairs of jeans, cups of coffee, portions of pasta, etc. It’s just that in Korean this is the default way to say multiple and to count multiple things.

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Today we’re getting into Korean prepositions and positions! Learn your right from your left and up and down (just like EXID). This’ll be quick and easy vocab so let’s get into it.

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Today is 한글날 or Hangul Day, which is a Korean holiday dedicated to celebrating the Korean writing system and its creator King Sejong! So to commemorate I’ll go through a bit on Hangul’s history, King Sejong, and some resources on how to learn Hangul yourself.

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Why is Hangul Day Celebrated?

The holiday is of course dedicated to the creation and history of Hangul. Because it’s one of the few writing systems where the founding date is known it is always celebrated on the 9th. On October 9, 1446, King Sejong officially released his manuscript, which introduced Hangul to the public.

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If you are feeling that you have a grip on present tense conjugation in Korean the next step is to go into the past! Past tense in Korean might seem tricky at first, but going through a few examples will help a lot. So I’ll introduce the conjugation and we can get started.

How to Make Words in Korean Past Tense?

When turning an unconjugated word into past tense you add ~ㅆ어요 on the end of your word. The ㅆ takes the place of the bottom of a verb, and depending on the verb the ㅆ brings in a vowel to turn into 았/었.

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I’ve mentioned before when introducing Sino-Korean and Hanja-based words that the English equivalent is similar to seeing “un” in a word and knowing it means “not __”, this Hanja we are looking at is almost the exact same!

不 means “not” and is very much like not, non-, un-, dis-, etc. in English! It generally appears in Korean as 불 or 부 at the front of a word. With that said Let’s get into some negative Hanja words! I’ll start out by breaking some of the words down, so you get the 2-for-1 combo~

Negative Emotional words

불 + 행복, not + happiness =
불행: unhappiness/misfortune

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