SHUTUP.....Let's Go Crazy With Hangul!

First things first....

Hi ^^. Right now I am to frustrated with my teacher to study so I thought I should at least write a new post.

I decided it's time to buckle down and try my best to show you how I learned how to remember the Korean alphabet. So here we go.

When I first decided I wanted to try to teach myself Korean, I did the worst thing possible: I bought a bunch of random Korean books. They were so expensive and in the end, they didn't even teach the alphabet!

Feeling miserable (and out of $$) I went into the iTunes app store hoping to find something free to help me. After downloading a ton of free Hangul apps, I stumbled upon the best teacher ever! The app is called TenguGo Hangul and personally, for a free app, it's the best!!

This app does everything from the basic stroke order of every letter, to how to write in the block system! It also goes into great detail about how each letter sounds with audio.

 

The best part about this app is it also has quizzes for you to take as practice. You can take them as often as you want in order to make sure you understand every letter.

 

 

Of course long after learning Hangul (maybe like a 2 year break) I found talktomeinkorean.com. The books are wonderful and easy to understand not to mention the teachers audio podcasts make learning fun as they joke around. In the workbook, there is a brief description of the Korean alphabet which is nice if you are just learning or need a refresher.

Because I am still learning Korean, I don't feel like I'm the best to teach the alphabet to you all but if you have any questions just comment and I will do my best to answer them ^ ㅅ ^.

Now that you have the tools to read and write in Korean, here is our words of the week.

Korean Slang (As taught by my amazing 언니 Hyea)

닥쳐 - Shutup

Romanization: dakjo

Sounds Like: Doc-Joe

Example:

-Friend: I'm pretty don't you think?

-Me: 닥쳐 >.>

Very Common Words Found in KPOP Songs

미친 - Crazy (adj.)

Romanization: Michin

Sounds Like: Mich ' in

You might also hear this word as  미쳐 (michyo)

Now there has to be about 100 songs that are titled "crazy" or some form of "미친" but one of the most recent songs that is crazy popular is 미쳐 (crazy) by 4Minute

So really, now if someone calls you crazy you can tell them to shutup ㅋㅋㅋ (its like lol).

Bye! Until next time!!

My pretty followers....I'm back!

ㅠㅠ Hey guys...it feels like I abandoned my blog "child" only to come back as a proud mother! lol When I last checked my posts in August '14, I only had 80 views and now I have over 900! What an amazing feeling.

Soon after my "Eyes, Nose, Lips, & Perler Beats" post, I managed to get myself a full time position where I work as a receptionist. Growing  accustomed to long hours and working five days a week wore me out for a while, but also brought a lot of great new opportunities! I found more time to practice and "hone" my Korean skills (with the help of my new friend Hyea who lives in Korea) and open my very own shop on Etsy (you can find out more information about my shop in my about me)! One of the residents at my work gave me the idea, and it is fantastic to know I have over 50 people supporting me in my endeavors.

Although  I feel ready to get into the habit of posting more frequently, I am worried of abandoning my baby again due to school clawing its way back into my life. With school, I study online through one of my local colleges which is nice ;however, I take up so much of my free time. But enough about school. Let's talk about how I met my wonderful Korean friend Hyea.

There is an app for iTunes and Android called Hello Talk. It brings together people who are in the process of learning other languages. Now, I have made several good friends on Hello Talk, but none of them beat my 언니 (eonni/a girls big sister) Hyea. She is kind, funny, and very smart. We have quite a bit in common and I have grown very fond of her. She helps me when I have questions, and doesn't mind correcting me when I'm wrong. The best part about Hello Talk is learning the conversational aspect of whatever language you are learning. Most books or classes only teach the basics of languages but not the slang. From my books, there are very little lessons on slang, but with the help of my Korean friends, I can have short conversations! I cannot believe how much I have grown with my languages skills within the last few months. I went from knowing random words, to knowing over 20 phrases! Swear, it is super helpful.

In honor of Hyea, I will be teaching 2 new words each post. 1 slang word (that we will be learning together as Hyea teaches them to me ^ ㅅ ^ )  & 1 from a kpop song.

Slang (as taught to me by Hyea)

멘붕 - Mental Breakdown.

Romanization: menboong

Sounds like: men-boo-ng

Note: is actually made up of small parts of two other words.

멘 is from 멘달 (mental) which means mental

and

붕 is from 붕괴 (boonggwi) which means breakdown

Hyea's example:  "You are watching a child, and the child spills food everywhere. You would have a 멘붕"

*You may also know this word from CL's solo song called Mental Breakdown*

Popular Korean Words Found in Kpop

예쁘다 -  To be pretty

Romanization: yeppuda

Sounds like: yeh-poo-duh

Note: All verbs end in 다 (da)

And a kpop song that shows this word in nearly every verse is the song U BEAUTY by 100%

Bye! 잘가! ( bye!)  감사합니다 (Thank you) for reading! Until next time!