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Learn Korean Ep. 132: 만에 “After”

Keykat is too good at rock paper scissors, but if I can beat her then she’ll buy lunch for everyone. I just have to focus.

This lesson is about the grammar 만에, which is attached after a noun and means “after” doing something. It can also translate as “since” something has happened.

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“Let’s” ~자, ~ㅂ시다, ~시죠 | Live Class Abridged

This past Sunday I taught a live class about how to say “Let’s” using four different forms, ~자, 같이 and ~요, ~ㅂ시다, and ~(으)시죠. These go in order from casual to more polite. The full live stream was two hours, but the abridged version of just the important lesson parts is under 10 minutes.

Do You RAISE or LOWER Your Voice in Korean?

When speaking Korean do you tend to raise or lower your voice tone? I found that most people tend to raise their voice in Korean, but it’s not always the case. Also there are some common reasons why this might happen. How about you? Do you raise or lower your voice in Korean? Let me know here or in the YouTube video comments.

조차 마저 “Even” | Live Class Abridged

Most Sundays I teach live Korean classrooms, and last Sunday the 5th I taught the particles 조차 and 마저, which both mean “even.”

You can find my live stream schedule here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18KsfU7QPRuEAhhQqRqn5jJOi_3HBTUooaRYweIuIonY/edit?usp=sharing

Korean Sentence Connectors With Billy Go | #20: Rather

This lesson is about sentence connectors that mean “rather,” including ~느니, 반면(에), ~기보다, ~반면(에), ~커녕, ~고사하고, and ~바에.

This is a free 20 lesson course that teaches sentence connectors. It covers over 250 common and useful Korean sentence connectors. Here’s the full playlist for this course: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbFrQnW0BNMWgwIZRvtiw5qyniZvEimJs

How Koreans Say “Get” Using 생기다 | Korean FAQ

I often see beginners using the expression 친구 만들다 to mean “to make friends.” This is technically correct, but it’s not often the most natural way to say this. The verb 생기다 means “to occur” but is often a more natural way to say “to get” when used with friends, motivation, questions, and more nouns. It’s simple to use, and only requires learning this one verb.

Korean Sentence Connectors With Billy Go | #19: Comparisons

This lesson is all about making comparisons, such as saying something is “more” or “less” than something else, or “similar” or “like” or “as much as.” The forms I teach in this lesson are 보다, 처럼, 같이, ~에 비해(서), 달리, 마찬가지, ~다시피, ~만큼, ~정도(로), ~에 비하면, 마치, 마찬가지로, ~(으)나 마찬가지, ~(이)나 마찬가지, ~거나 마찬가지, 다름(이) 없다, ~다시피 하다, ~듯(이), ~듯하다, ~듯싶다, ~다시피 하다, and ~만치.

This is a free 20 lesson course all about Korean sentence connectors for all levels – beginner, intermediate, and advanced.

“Of course” ~고말고(요) | Live Class Abridged

The form ~고말고(요) is a simple verb ending that adds the meaning of “of course” to a sentence. It attaches to any verb stem, in the present tense or the past tense. In the latest live Korean class I did on my YouTube channel I taught how to use this form, along with the similar form ~다마다(요).

Korean Sentence Connectors With Billy Go | #18: Through & According To

This is a free course for learning all of the most common and essential sentence connectors – pieces of grammar that are used to make longer sentences. There are 20 lessons in the course, and each week I’ll post one new episode. This lesson teaches the forms ~통해(서), (으)로, ~에 따라(서), 예를 들다, 가지고, 따라서, ~지에 따라(서), ~에 의해(서), ~에 의한, ~으로써, (으)로서, (으)로써, ~냐에 따라(서), ~에 의하면, ~에 따르면, ~건대, and ~컨대.

“First” 먼저, 일단, 우선, ~부터 (하다) | Live Class Abridged

On Sunday I taught a live Korean class about how to say “first” in Korean. Like anything, there are many ways it can be done. However mostly these are just simple adverbs you can just memorize. I also taught a more intermediate form which has a similar meaning, and can be used together for more emphasis. The words I taught were 먼저, 일단, 우선, 처음, and ~부터 (하다).