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Grading celebrities speaking in Korean

Lately it's becoming more and more common to hear celebrities speaking in Korean, in movies or TV shows.

As a Korean teacher, I'm always happy when I come across these sort of clips.

But how good is their Korean really? Are they pronouncing things accurately, and are their sentences grammatically correct?

In this video I dig into the Korean of Jim Carrey, Blackpink's Lisa, and Lupita Nyong'o.

Who else would you like to learn about? Let me know in the comments on the video, or here~

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Billy Go’s Beginner Korean Course | #60: Location Words

We have a new "Beginner Korean Course" lesson!

In this lesson you'll learn about location words, as well as how to say where things are with a lot more detail than you could before.

We're up to lesson 60 out of 100! Remember that all of these lessons go in order (in this series), so start from the beginning if you're new. Or you can start wherever you want, but know that since everything goes in order you might miss important grammar and vocabulary that will come up in later lessons.

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Billy Go’s Beginner Korean Course | #59: Colors

This lesson will cover all of the most commonly used colors in Korean, as well as how to describe things using colors.

We're up to lesson 59 out of 100~! Remember that all of these videos go in order, so start from lesson 1 if you're new to this series (otherwise you'll miss important grammar and vocabulary that were covered in previous lessons).

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"Even though" ~데도, ~불구하고 | Live Class Abridged

This past Sunday I did a live Korean class for intermediate learners.

The topic of the live stream was the grammar forms ~데도 and ~불구하고, as well as how they're used together.

For ~불구하고, I also taught how it can be used with nouns and verbs in formal sentences.

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“I can’t see” and “I can’t hear” | Korean FAQ

Ever wondered about the difference between 못 보다, 볼 수 없다, and 안 보이다?

Or how about 못 듣다, 들을 수 없다, and 들리다?

This video covers how you can say that you can't "see" or can't "hear" something using these common verbs.

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Billy Go’s Beginner Korean Course | #58: Asking Permission

We're up to lesson 58 out of a total of 100 in this series.

Again remember that all of these videos go in order in this series, so start from the beginning if this is your first time seeing this series.

In this lesson we'll learn how to ask permission, such as how to say "Can I?"

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Billy Go’s Beginner Korean Course | #57: Describing Everything

This is going to be a shorter lesson, but is just as important. In this lesson you'll learn how you can conjugate descriptive verbs before nouns.

Essentially, this lesson teaches how to make adjectives and describe people, places, and things.

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"Because" ~고 해서 | Live Class Abridged

In this past Sunday's live Korean class we learned about the grammar form ~고 해서 (and ~고 하니까).

This form is used for listing one reason, among other reasons, when you're giving an explanation for something - or when you're saying "Because."

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자기, 자신, 자기자신, and 본인 | Korean FAQ

Three words that are often confused by Korean learners are 자기, 자신, and 자시자신.

What's the difference between these three? I answer that in the video below.

Also I added 본인, since it can sometimes seem to have a similar translation in English.

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Billy Go’s Beginner Korean Course | #56: Asking for Clarification

We're up to lesson 56 out of a total of 100.

This lesson will cover how to ask for clarification in a conversation. It won't be grammar heavy.

You'll learn how to say that you didn't understand or did understand something. And you'll learn how to ask someone to say something more slowly, or again.

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