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Informal vs Formal | Live Class Abridged

This past Sunday I taught about using the ~니다/~니까 forms used in Formal Speech, and compared them to the standard ~요 form. I taught when and how to use each one of them, and how both of them can also be mixed in the same sentence. The full live stream was around an hour but I managed to condense the most essential parts to just 17 minute here.

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Billy Go’s Korean Conversation Course | #17: Paying – 계산하기

This course features twenty completely natural Korean conversations along with full explanations of every sentence. In this lesson you'll hear someone who's making a purchase at the convenience store, and also answering a few common questions.

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어쨌든 vs 아무튼 “Anyway” | Korean FAQ

어쨌든 and 아무튼 both translate as "anyway," and either can be used most of the time. However, they're not the same in every situation. There are also a few other words that translate as "anyway" that I explain in this video, such as 하여튼 and others.

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Billy Go’s Korean Conversation Course | #16: Hair – 머리

It's a new episode of my FREE Korean conversation course, and this time it's about how to get your hair done in Korea. Specifically I included examples for both the boyfriend and the girlfriend in the conversation.

This is a free course for practicing completely natural, real Korean conversations. Each lesson is an entire conversation, and comes with full explanations for every sentence. I recommend this course if you're already an intermediate speaker, or if you've already finished my other "Beginner Korean Course." There are a total of twenty episodes in this series. There's also a book version with five additional conversations as well, for even more practice.

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Billy Go’s Korean Conversation Course | #15: Making Kimchi – 김장

This is a free course for practicing using real, natural Korean conversations. It's 20 episodes long, so that means there are only 5 more episodes remaining.

This episode is a natural conversation about making 김치, and involves a mother and her daughter.

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Improve Your Korean Intonation | Korean FAQ

Korean intonation can be tricky, because it includes not just how you stress certain sounds or words, but it also includes how you might pronounce them and what pitch they have. In Korean pitch accent isn't essential to speaking fluent Korean, but there are some things related to intonation (including the pitch of a word) that can be useful to be aware of. Knowing how native Korean speakers pronounce words and use intonation will help you to sound more natural. In this video I give a summary of Korean intonation, as well as some tips for learning intonation and using it.

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Billy Go’s Korean Conversation Course | #14: Shoes – 신발

This is a FREE video course made for INTERMEDIATE level learners, and includes 20 full, natural Korean conversations. It also serves as a sequel to my previous free "Beginner Korean Course." I also have another free course called "Master Politeness Levels" on my channel which can be used on its own. Are you noticing that I offer a lot of free courses and content on my YouTube channel?

Today's newest episode is lesson 14 (out of a total of 20 in this video course), which is about someone deciding on a gift to buy for their younger sibling - a pair of shoes.

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Billy Go’s Korean Conversation Course | #13: Bus – 버스

The newest episode in my FREE Korean conversation course is now up, and it's about taking the bus. This course contains 20 episodes and is intended for learners who are intermediate level, or for learners who've already completed my Beginner Korean Course. All of these conversations are completely natural, just like REAL conversations you will hear from native Korean speakers.

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사진빨? What is 발? | Korean FAQ

This lesson is about 발. Or is it 빨? What is 발 or 빨? It means an "effect," and it's used directly after a noun to mean the "effect of (noun)." It's used commonly in words such as 사진발 (often as 사진빨), 옷발 (옷빨), 머리발 (머리빨), 화장발 (화장빨), 약발 (약빨), 말발 (말빨), and many others.

This question was originally sent in by one of my subscribers, who was listening to a Stray Kids song and heard it used. Have you ever seen this used before? Let me know here or in the comments on YouTube.

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Billy Go’s Korean Conversation Course | #12: Restaurant – 식당

Do you want to hear REAL and NATURAL Korean conversations? Are you INTERMEDIATE level, or currently entering the intermediate level? Then this series is perfect for you. And best of all, it's FREE. This is a 20 episode video series that provides real, natural Korean conversations, and also explains everything to you one line at a time. If you've always wanted to start understanding actual conversations, then look no further! Why am I pitching this like it's a paid course when it's free?

There is also a book version with the same contents as this course, and 5 additional conversations (for a total of 25). But this video course still has 20 episodes, stands on its own, and is completely free. This lesson is #12, so we're already more than halfway finished.

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