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~이고 “Or Whatever” | Live Class Abridged

This recent Sunday was my last live Korean classroom until August, as I’ll be spending the summer in Korea again. The lesson was about the form ~(이)고, which is used to dismiss something, and can translate as “or whatever.” We also learned the form ~(이)고 뭐고, and ~(이)고 나발이고, which have a similar usage.

This FREE Korean Study Notebook Will Change How You Learn

I’ve been secretly working on a Korean study notebook for the past 5 months, ever since I started my search to find the perfect notebook last year.

I wanted something that was adaptive to different learning styles, simply designed and easy to use, and that was free so I could recommend it to other learners. So I just made my own.

There are 13 unique sheets, and all of them are together as downloadable PDF files that you can print (in color, or in black and white).

Check out the video below for an explanation of how these study notebook pages work, and for the link to download them for free.

Download the audio content for “Korean Sentences Made Simple” for free!

My newest course and book, “Korean Sentences Made Simple” is 20 lessons teaching all of the most common and essential Korean sentence connectors. A sentence connector is anything used to connect together smaller sentences into longer sentences, such as the form ~고, ~서, ~(으)니까, and hundreds more.

Here’s what you get:

All 20 chapters from the book “Korean Sentences Made Simple.”Nearly two hours of example sentences from the book, recorded by a native Korean speaker.Additional example sentences.Each chapter is separated and organized by track and title.

These audio files were made to be used together with “Korean Sentences Made Simple.”

The files have been carefully created to be used both while at home, and while out and about. You can listen to them while studying at your desk, commuting to work, or during exercise.

Click here to download the audio files for “Korean Sentences Made Simple.”

Korean Folk Tales with Jeremy | 도깨비 방망이

My son wanted to try being in a video all by himself, so we asked if he’d want to try reading a Korean folktale from my book “Korean Reading Made Simple 2.” This is a book full of Korean folktales, and we picked the story 도깨비 방망이 because we liked it. He added some illustrations of his own to the video. Should we make another video like this again?

~커녕 “Far From” | Live Class Abridged

Last Sunday I did a live class about the form ~커녕, which appears as 은커녕 and 는커녕 or 기는커녕, and means “far from.” I also taught the related form 고사하고, which is used with the Topic Marker. The full live stream lasted over an hour, but you can watch the abridged version in just 7 minutes.

Who is the Korean Hanja Master? | Son vs Dad

My son and I had one more competition – for Hanja. Hanja are characters originally from the Chinese language which work kind of like Latin root words in the Korean language. I’ve been studying Hanja since I first began learning Korean because it was interesting to me, but my son also really likes Hanja and has a few books. We’ll find out whose knowledge of Hanja is better, and also practice some new words along the way.

~판 “Situation” | Live Class Abridged

My most recent live stream was about the advanced level form ~판, which means a “situation.” It’s a bit tricky to translate into one word, but it’s used for talking about a situation where something takes place or where something is a certain way. The full live stream was about an hour, but the abridged version is just under 10 minutes long.

20 Years of Learning Korean | The Truth No One Told Me

I started learning Korean in 2005, back before most people had high speed internet, and before YouTube was a thing. But that didn’t matter, because learning Korean just takes a lot of studying and a TON of practice, and I was able to do both of those and while living in Korea. So I compiled some of the most important things I’ve learned over the past 20 years into today’s newest video.

Who is the Korean Onomatopoeia Master? | Son vs Dad

In the third episode of our quiz series I challenged my son Jeremy to an onomatopoeia challenge. This is something he might be better at than me, since kids learn onomatopoeia from children’s books a lot more than Korean learners (such as myself). But I’m also a teacher, so who knows? Actually I know, because I filmed the video with him.

What challenge should we do next?

~(으)나 마나 & ~봤자 “No Matter” | Live Stream Abridged

Both ~(으)나 마나 and ~봤자 are used to say that it “doesn’t matter” whether you do something or not, but the way they’re used is different. ~(으)나 마나 uses verb stems while ~봤자 uses a conjugated verb.