Korean study blog for my help and yours. Korean grammar and vocabulary posts as well as interesting cultural knowledge!
Wanted to bring in more grammar posts and I think one of the best things starting out is learning some beginner Korean conjunction! Learning conjunctions like how to say ‘and’ in Korean is the easiest way to take your sentences and make them more natural and flow better!
Let’s get into some grammar today for beginners and learn about 받침 or batchim rules! Batchim affects how you pronounce a lot of words and sentences so it is a key thing to learn early on.
받침 is a grammatical feature focused on pronunciation. The word 받침 means to support or prop; and is the bottom character in a Korean syllable (like 받: ㄷ 침: ㅁ).
The word itself is an example of its grammar rule! Each letter romanized comes out to equal badchim but it is actually pronounced more like batchim and so more often you’ll see it romanized as batchim rather than badchim.
As of just this week South Koreans are now a year or two younger! Now this isn’t literal, if you and your Korean friend were both born in 2000 they are not suddenly younger than you. For the longest time Koreans had a separate age system that added a year to a person’s age. Well not anymore!
For a while now many Koreans and politicians have wanted to put an end to the Korean age system. The president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has said before the current age system has been a drain on resources. And a recent 2022 survey suggested “86% of South Koreans said they would adopt the international system”. So better late than never the change starts now!
This one will be a quick vocab rundown of appearance in Korean. Key points like height, hair, appearance, weight, disability are all included! With some quick sentences to help you get into the flow and start putting together some yourself.
키가 큰: tall
평균 신장: average height
키가 작은: short
키가 적다: tiny
우리 남동생은 키가 크다: My younger brother is tall
웬디는 키가 너무 작다: Wendy is so short
Happy pride month! A while ago I mentioned briefly how gay Koreans would use certain terms to refer to a partner/romantic interest and I want to delve deeper into the culture! Both with some points on Korean LGBTQIA+ culture and life, and some great vocab!
If you’ve learned some words associated with school or education like 학교 you might have noticed the reoccurring 교 theme, that’s because a lot of school and educational words use Sino-Korean!
This one will be a 2-for-1 deal – there are two different Hanja that are pronounced 교 and both used for educational terms:
校: more specific to the school and environment
敎: related to the education process
