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Korean Buzzwords – 아아

AAAH..Ahem. 아아?! What the heck does that mean?! Cassie explains this phrase, which is the abbreviation of two words, as strange as it may sound.  Have you seen it in use before? Did you guess the meaning of this expressionRead more

Korean Q&A – 한 번 and 한번 are different? (Korean spacing rules)

Did you know that 한 번 and 한번 actually mean different things? 한 번 literally means “one time” whereas 한번 is used when you are talking about “giving something a try”. Learn more about this rule and some other examplesRead more

Intermediate Korean Lesson – 깨가 쏟아지다

Sesame seeds are spilling? What kind of situation is it? Can you guess the meaning of this idiom? Accompanying e-book for this video series: https://goo.gl/YBSi9s (Get full transcripts + translations + more sample sentences) This intermediate lesson covers the phraseRead more

Korean Tongue Twisters! – Weekly Korean Challenge

Can you try saying these Korean tongue twister sentences really quickly? This week’s Korean challenge is a tongue twister mission! Jooyeon gave the other TTMIK members some difficult tongue twister sentences to read out loud. Who do you think didRead more

Iyagi For Beginners – Do you like traveling?

Do you like traveling? Let's find out if Kyeong-eun and Jooyeon like to travel and what they do when they are traveling. Listen to this beginner-level Korean conversation! You can download the full transcript for this Iyagi conversation for free:Read more

Korean Soft Spoken ASMR – 한국 속담 (Korean Proverbs)

Go to sleep (or study Korean) while listening to Jooyeon’s Korean ASMR story-telling for this week. In this week’s Korean ASMR video, Jooyeon will tell you about some interesting Korean proverbs that translated similarly into English. Tune in every FridayRead more

Korean Buzzwords – 개이득 (wild… benefit?)

What would your guess be for the meaning of this word if you heard someone say it? Watch all of our Buzzwords videos: https://goo.gl/tpH8Vu 개이득?! What the heck does that mean?! Cassie explains this fun expression, frequently used to describeRead more

Korean Q&A – Why is “coconut” 코코넛, not 코코넡?

Why are many English words ending in “-t” written in Hangeul as ㅅ? Coconut is written in Korean as 코코넛, the Internet is written as 인터넷, and robot is written as 로봇, all with ㅅ at the end instead ofRead more

Intermediate Korean Lesson – 귀가 얇다

Your ears are thin? What do you think that expression means? Learn even more with the accompanying printable e-book for the Intermediate Korean lesson series! You can study with the full transcripts and translations as well as more sample sentencesRead more

Translate “I will see you tomorrow.” – Weekly Korean Challenge

Can you translate this sentence into Korean? How do you say “I will see you tomorrow.” in Korean? Let us think about it together and solve the quiz! Learn some of the most natural ways to say this greeting inRead more