~ Lesson 3: 3 과 First Introductions ~
This Lesson will be the first lesson to Focus on conversation, Reading, vocabulary building and writing if you choose to. There will also be a quiz at the end of this lesson . Now that you have basic working knowledge of how to read and pronounce Korean, this lesson should be quite easy. From here on there will be no romanization usage unless to make a point in an explanation. If you are having difficulty reading Hangul go back and practice before you decide to move on to this lesson. Remember keep practicing and reviewing until you get to a point where you feel comfortable. If you are not comfortable with Hangul then you won't be comfortable moving on to the next lesson. If you are not comfortable then it will make it harder for you to learn efficiently. So just be calm and take your time to take everything in.
I Humble form: 저 Plain Form: 나
Hello 안녕하세요
Korea 한국
United States 미국
Lesson, Chapter 과
Student 학생
School year 학년
Person, People 사람
College Student 대학생
Greeting 인사
Freshman 1학년
Sophomore 2학년
Junior 3학년
Senior 4학년
To be 이다(이에요/예요)
Also/Too 도
Topic particle (as for) 는 /은
0 공/영 6 육
1 일 7 칠
2 이 8 팔
3 삼 9 구
4 사 10 십
5 오
Here is a video of how to pronounce Sino-Korean numbers. She goes Further than ten. So if you would like to get ahead and know how to count to 100 this is a good video to watch. As always practice by repeating after the video and pronounce it out loud.
Vocabulary
I Humble form: 저 Plain Form: 나
Hello 안녕하세요
Korea 한국
United States 미국
Lesson, Chapter 과
Student 학생
School year 학년
Person, People 사람
College Student 대학생
Greeting 인사
Freshman 1학년
Sophomore 2학년
Junior 3학년
Senior 4학년
To be 이다(이에요/예요)
Also/Too 도
Topic particle (as for) 는 /은
Sino-Korean Numbers
Sino-Korean numbers are used for counting floors of a building, minutes, lessons, years, months, days, dollars, won, miles, school years, serial numbers and weeks. For telephone numbers zero is read as 공.0 공/영 6 육
1 일 7 칠
2 이 8 팔
3 삼 9 구
4 사 10 십
5 오
Here is a video of how to pronounce Sino-Korean numbers. She goes Further than ten. So if you would like to get ahead and know how to count to 100 this is a good video to watch. As always practice by repeating after the video and pronounce it out loud.
Introductions
Sentence structure (Noun1) N1는/은 N2 예요/이에요.
*N1는/은 is the topic.
N2 예요/이에요 is the comment
Kai and Sehun have just met they are introducing themselves to each other and telling each other what grade they are currently in.
카이: 안녕하세요? How are you?/Hello
저는 카이예요. I'm Kai
4학년이에요. I'm a senior
오세훈: 안녕하세요? How are you?/Hello
오세훈이에요. I'm Oh Sehun
2학년이에요. I'm a sophmore
*Notice that Kai is using 저는 and Sehun is not. This is because the topic has already been brought up by Kai, and since Sehun is also going to introduce himself with the same information it is not necessary for him to repeat 저는 back to Kai. But if Kai started a new topic about himself then he would need to indicate it by using 저는.
*Also take note of the highlighted parts. 는/은 are used in special ways. 은 is used when the noun ends in a consonant. and 는 is used when the noun ends in a vowel. Do you remember in the previous lesson we learned which Hangul were nouns and which ones were consonants? If not it might be a good idea to go back and test yourself. Anyway 는 is used after 저 because it ends in the vowel ㅓ.
*이에요/예요 is similar to 는/은 because like those 이에요 is used when N2 ends in a consonant. 예요 is used when N2 ends in a vowel. Simple right? so since Kai's (카이) name in Hangul ends with vowel 예요 is used.
Sehun's (세훈) name in Hangul ends with a consonant so 이에요 is used.
Now try to introduce yourself.
You: 저는 예요/이에요. I'm .
학년이에요. I'm a .
You can also describe someone with short sentences with the vocabulary that we learned at the beginning!
오세훈은 학생이에요. Oh Sehun is a student.
카이는 한국 사람이에요. Kai is Korean.
오세훈도 한국 사람이에요. Oh Sehun is also Korean *NOTE* Do not use 는/은 with 도.
카이는 4학년이에요. Kai is a senior.
Let's make a sentence using Kai and Sehun where they are introducing themselves further.
카이: 저는 카이예요. 4학년이에요. 한국 사람이에요. I'm Kai. I'm a senior. I'm Korean.
오세훈: 저는 오세훈이에요. 2학년이에요. 저도 한국 사람이에요. I'm Oh Sehun. I'm a sophmore. I'm also korean
Now you try to make a sentence about yourself. State your name, Your year, and your nationality.
You: 저는 예요/이에요
학년이에요.
사람이에요.
You can also pretend to be someone else talking about you and make up some short sentences. Like the ones about Kai and Sehun.
Here is a video on introducing yourself. I didn't teach the word 입니다. But it is absolutely the same as 예요/이에요. Just more highly polite when Introducing yourself to strangers. But either way is fine for how you want to introduce yourself.
