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The Many, Many Ways to Say “RICE” | Korean FAQ

"Rice" is a word that might be difficult to translate into Korean, only because there are so many different ways to translate it depending on what type of rice you mean. For example, you might call uncooked rice 쌀, and cooked rice 밥, and different words for different types of rice. Here are all of the most important ones I've found, and which you should definitely learn.

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Korean-Speaking Jeremy Makes & Devours Watermelon Hwachae 수박화채

My son Jeremy is 7 years old, and speaks both Korean and English. You may have seen him in one or two of my videos in the past, but recently he started asking me to let him appear in more videos together. For this video he wanted to make watermelon punch (수박화채), which is made of watermelon, lemon/lime soda, and various fruits. I think I appear in this video for less than a minute. Most of it he did himself as you can see, except for cutting the watermelon which I did for him, as well as all of the cleanup afterwards.

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하마터면 "Almost" | Live Class Abridged

하마터면 is used together with the grammar form 뻔하다 ("almost" or "barely") to add emphasis to this form. Another word that's also used together with 뻔하다 is the verb 자칫하다, as either 자칫하면 or 자칫했더라면. This is an advanced Korean level live stream.

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Important Hanja: Find Your 도 (道) (한자) | Korean FAQ

It's time for another Hanja episode! (I have more of these Hanja lessons on the way). This time I'll be explaining how to use the Hanja 道 (도), which means a "way" or a "road." Where have you seen this Hanja used before?

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Time Counters 시/시간, 초/분, 년/월/일/개월, 주/주일, 번... | Live Class Abridged

My most recent live stream was about time counters, which are words used when counting the time. For example, we learned about 시 which is used for counting the current hour ("o'clock"), and 시간 which is used for counting hours ("1 hour," "2 hours," "3 hours," etc.). We also learned about counters for years, months, weeks, and days, times, and more. The full live stream was around 2 hours long, but the condensed version is just 9 minutes.

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Why Korean Should be Your Next Language: 10 Reasons to Start

For any of you who are still on the fence about learning Korean, I made this video with 10 reasons why you should learn Korean. Here are 10 reasons you should start learning Korean now. This video also serves as an introductory video to Korean, and includes links to a free full Korean course, a guide to the history, as well as some more YouTube channels to help get you started.

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ㅂ Sound Change SIMPLIFIED | Korean FAQ

"ㅂ verbs are irregular." Everyone learns this as a beginner when you study how to conjugate the 요 form. But knowing "WHY" ㅂ verbs are irregular can help ease some of the confusion, and make learning them much simpler. In today's video I explain the reason why ㅂ-verbs are irregular, or why they're actually NOT irregular.

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Can I Guess How Long They've Studied Korean?

A couple of months ago I had a fan meetup in Seoul, and I tried to guess how long several of my subscribers had been learning Korean for. Some of them had just recently started, while others had been studying for years. So I did my guess to estimate exactly when they started learning, and absolutely failed (at most of them, but not all). Can you guess how long they've been learning Korean better than I did?

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Future Tense Questions ~ㄹ게요 & ~게요 | Live Class Abridged

This past Sunday I held a live Korean class on my YouTube channel about the grammar forms ~ㄹ게(요) and ~게(요), including ALL of their various uses.

The full live stream was nearly 2 hours, but you can watch the summary here in just about 9 minutes.

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My Korean Learning Toolkit: The Best Tools and Resources

It's time to share every one of my favorite tools and resources for learning Korean. I've been compiling tools for years and selected several of the best, most useful ones for learners of all levels - most of these I still use myself.

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