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Korean Hiking: HARDCORE or WIMPY?

I recently got to hike up Gwanak Mountain (관악산) for my first time, which is a popular climbing spot easily accessible right in Seoul - next to Seoul National University.

Joining me was my friend Anna who also has her own (new) channel. She carried up all of the food we were supposed to eat when we reached the top... if only we had reached the top before the sun was already setting.

How is hiking in your country? In this video we compare hiking in mine (the US) with Korea, and talk about what makes each one better or worse.

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Are You Translating “Someone” and “Anyone” Wrong? | Korean FAQ

I often see the words 누군가 and 아무나 used by beginners to translate "someone" and "anyone." And while these words do mean "someone" and "anyone" respectively, they're often not the correct way to translate them from English and can sound awkward in many situations. In this episode I'll show you how you can use the regular word 사람 (or 분 for honorific speech) to translate "someone" and "anyone" more naturally.

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Can Koreans pass a DIALECT QUIZ? | Street Interview

I went to Seoul and gave Koreans a dialect quiz. I asked them to recognize a variety of different phrases in dialects from around Korea. In total, I had a list of about 30 different expressions. Some of them were intentionally simple, while others I made as difficult as possible to see what their reactions would be.

Are you able to understand any of these expressions? How do you think you'd do if you were to take this sort of test, but with dialects in your own language of English?

And, would you like to see more street interviews like these? Let me know!

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Hope and Wish | Live Class Abridged

There are so many ways to express "hope" and "wish," and I put them all together into this past Sunday's live Korean class.

I taught about the forms (으)면 좋겠다, (으)면 좋다, (으)면 하다, 기(를) 바라다 and 빌다, (으)면 싶다, and the verbs 희망(을) 하다 ("to hope") and 소망(을) 하다 ("to wish").

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Repetitive Adjectives – 흔하디흔하다 & More | Korean FAQ

For years as a beginner I saw verbs that used this form but never knew what they were, nor did I recognize that it was an actual form - just that this form kept popping up from time to time. This form doesn't have its own name, but you can think of it as the 디~다 form since that's the pattern that gets repeated when it's used.

Some common examples of this form are the verbs 흔하디흔하다, 높디높다, 쓰디쓰다, 푸르디푸르다, 좁디좁다, and 예쁘디예쁘다.

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Grading YOUR Korean Journals Ep. 2

This is the second time I've had the pleasure of grading YOUR Korean Journals. This time I met up with Inae Saem and we looked at 8 of your latest journals, written entirely in Korean. What we were surprised by most is that this time everyone's level seemed pretty high (the Korean was easy to understand). Thanks for sending in your journals! Maybe I can make this a more regular thing if there's enough interest.

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How to “YEET” Something in Korean – Using “처” | Korean FAQ

I've seen beginners occasionally use verbs that begin with 처 in their sentences inappropriately, and wanted to clarify how these are used and exactly what they feel like. 처 can be added to the beginning of action verbs to make them stronger, almost like a swear (but not a swear). Today's latest "Korean FAQ" video explains the 처 suffix in detail and gives some examples that you can use as well.

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Are you hiding your Korean dialect? | Street Interview

Recently I visited Seoul to film some videos, and while I was there I stopped to interview several people about Korean dialects.

For this video, I asked people if they knew any dialects. Most people responded that they didn't know anything, but once we started the video it was clear they actually knew a lot more than I thought. I asked them to share some of their dialect with me, or to share what they knew about dialects, and here's the result!

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"Unexpected Contrast" 건마는/건만 | Live Class Abridged

The grammar form ~건마는 or ~건만 is used to add contrast to a sentence when something was unexpected or different than what you thought it would be. It's an Advanced Level form, and this Sunday's past live stream was for those learners.

Let me know what level you'd like to see me teach more in my live streams! If there's enough interest, I'll continue making more Advanced Level classes like these~

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They film K-dramas here! Bojeong-dong Café Street (보정동카페거리)

보정동카페거리 (also called 죽전카페거리) is a street lined with cafes that's frequently used as a spot for filming commercials and Korean dramas. So when my friend suggested we go there for lunch, I had to go see it for myself.

Although it's small (even more than it looks), it was filled with people enjoying drinks and shopping for clothes and was a relaxing and attractive location for our lunch. While not a huge tourism spot (I don't even remember seeing any foreign tourists that day), it was worth a visit if you're already near the area. For more info, check out the video description. This was not a sponsored video.

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