Transportation Chart 2

 

Korean Transportation Vocabulary PART2

Hello My fellow students this is Korean transportation vocabulary video part 2. In the first video we learned all the most common forms of transportation, now we will go for the slightly more uncommon ones. Let us begin.

We are going to use the same verbs as we did in the last transportation video

ta-da to ride and un-jeon-ha-da to drive

Our first mode of transportation is a truck 트럭

트럭 타다

트럭 운전하다

some of these are gonna be real easy. But some are not

Van. Van is 봉고차

봉고차 타다

봉고차 운전하다

봉고차 is van

Sport Utility Vehicle or SUV is 

스포츠 유틸리티 차량 or 스포츠 유틸리티 차 to be more modern or 에스유브이 to be most modern of all 

Notice how 스포츠 유틸리티 차 and 봉고차 both have 차 at the end.

스포츠 유틸리티 차 타다

스포츠 유틸리티 차 운전하다

차량=vehicle

Motorcycle. Here is another easy one 오토바이 or 모터사이클, but o-to-ba-i is more common in everyday conversation

Scooter 스쿠터 even more easy!

and another easy one Tractor 트랙터

Horse. Now things get interesting. Horse=mal. and you don't drive a horse. You ride it.

말 타다

Horse and Buggy/carriage 마차 the original 'cha'. 

마차를 타다.

마차를 운전하다

Now rollerskate, rollerblade and skateboard. They're all English loan words and they go with ta-da I ride the rolerskates I ride the rollerblades, I ride the skateboard

Roller skate 롤러 스케이트 타다

Rollerblade 롤러블레이드/ 인라인 스케이트 타다

Skateboard 스케이트보드 타다

and ski another one in the same vein  I ride the skis or cross country skiis

Ski 스키/ 크로스 컨트리 스키

Ski 스키/ 크로스 컨트리 스키 타다

Alright here's something with an engine: Helicopter 헬리콥터

Helicopter 헬리콥터 타다

Helicopter 헬리콥터  운전하다

Now pay attention because things are gonna get tricky Spaceship 우주선

to ride the spaceship 우주선 타다

to drive the spaceship 우주선 운전하다 you never know when you might do that

우주선 Spaceship 우주선 

Now Submarine 잠수함 잠수함 submarine

잠수함 타다 to ride the submarine

잠수함 운전하다 to drive the submarine

잠수함 submarine 잠수함 

Alright Hot Air balloon 열기구

열기구 타다 weeeee! 열기구

I don't think you drive a hot air balloon I think you pilot a hotair balloon do you remember the word for pilot? jo-jong-ha-da!

열기구 조종하다

And now some animals... that you can ride

Dog Sled 개 썰매 개is dog 썰매 is sled to ride a dog sled 개 썰매

Camel 낙타 to ride a camel 낙타 타다 camel 낙타 낙타 

Donkey 당나귀 to ride a donkey 당나귀 타다 donkey 당나귀 당나귀

Transportation Chart 1

 

Transportation Vocabulary

 Hello my fellow students. This is a vocabulary lesson about forms of transportation. We will start with modes of transportation you can do without a vehicle. Ones that you can do with just your body like 'crawl'. That's one way you can get around: crawl. We're gonna learn these verbs in the infinitive form. Like 'to crawl' That is the way I think you should learn verbs. learn the infinitive, then you can conjugate them to the present, past, or future tenses. People don’t usually talk in the infinitive form but it is useful to memorize the infinitive and learn how to conjugate verbs from the infinitive into whichever tense you want. 

Anyway,

to crawl is 기다 gi-da

이 아기는 겨요 "i a-i-gi-neun gyeo-yo" that's the present tense of "This baby crawls" 이 아기는 겨요 i a-i-gi-neun gyeo-yo 

기다 gi-da

And after you crawl you learn 

to walk 걷다 geot-da

then after you walk you learn 

to run 달리다 dal-li-da

How else can we move? We can jump.

to jump 뛰다 ddwi-da

We can also climb 

to climb 오르다 o-reu-da

Look at how this word sounds like 'over the' o-reu-da. Climb o-reu-da, climb over the.

And, of course, the pinnacle of human movement to dance! 

to dance 춤추다 chum-chu-da

I like to think the sound-effect of dancing is choom choom choom choom. choom-chu-da!

But there is another way humans can move: swim! 

to swim 수영하다 su-yeong-ha-da

and I don't know how many winged creatures will be studying Korean with me, but if there are any then you guys can fly 

to fly 날다 nal-da

And that's all we got for un-aided transportation. We can also move with the help of vehicles. Some vehicles you ride, and some vehicles you drive, and some vehicles you can do both. So I will teach you the word for ride and the word for drive.

to ride is 타다 ta-da

to drive is 운전하다 un-jeon-ha-da

Notice how this word sounds like engine hada? 운전/engine? hada means to do, so this word is like "to do engine"=to drive. But there is another way to say it....몰다. What is the difference between these two words for drive... well more specifically 운전하다 means "to operate a vehicle" and 몰다 means "to transport someone/something". 

so you say I drive a car 나는 차를 운전해 na-neun cha-reul un-jeon-hae

and you say I drive you to Seoul 나는너를 서울에 몰아 na-neun neo-reul Seo-ul-e mol-a. 

We will focus on the word un-jeon-ha-da in the remainder of this lesson.

Alright our first vehicle is 

the bicycle 자전거 ja-jeon-geo 

And in Korean they always say ride a bicycle 

to ride a bike 자전거 타다 ja-jeon-geo ta-da 

Next vehicle… it’s an easy one 

car is 

차 cha

 or 

자동차 ja-dong-cha

Cha is more modern and cool and casual. And you can ride a car 

to ride a car 자동차 타다 or 차 타다 

Or you can drive a car 

to drive a car 자동차 운전하다 or 차 운전하다  

Remember: Car is cha… ja-dong-cha!

Our next vehicle is a taxi. This one is more easy 

taxi is 택시 taek-shi

to ride a taxi 택시 타다

to drive the taxi 택시 운전하다 

If you are a taxi driver the word for that is 택시 기사 (taek-shi gi-sa). If you get into a taxi in Korea you can 안녕하세요 택시기사 (an-nyeong-ha-se-yo taek-shi gi-sa) or you can be extra polite and say  안녕하세요 택시기사님 (an-nyeong-ha-se-yo taek-shi gi-sa-nim). Gi-sa is what you call a professional driver and -nim at the end makes it more polite.

The next vehicle is a bus. Wanna guess how to say bus? 

Bus is

버스 beo-seu

You can ride the bus 

to ride the bus 버스 타다 beo-seu ta-da 

or, if you are a 버스 기사 beo-seu gi-sa, 

you can drive the bus 

to drive the bus 버스 운전하다 beo-seu un-jeon-ha-da

Now it’s time to learn train. 

Train is 

기차 gi-cha 

the train is gonna getchya gi-cha gi-cha gi-cha! 

To ride the train 기차 타다 gi-cha ta-da. 

Notice how the word for car: cha is inside gi-cha. That little word cha is actually inside a few different forms on transportation. If you want to drive the train 

To drive the train is 기차 운전하다 gi-cha un-jeon-ha-da

The next method of transportation is airplane 

Airplane 비행기 bi-haeng-gi 

In Korean you say I drive the airplane. never say I fly the airplane, say I drive the airplane

to drive the airplane 비행기를 운전하다 bi-haeng-gi un-jeon-ha-da

to fly the airplane 비행기를 타다 bi-haeng-gi ta-da

And finally we move to the water and learn boat. 

Boat is 보트 bo-teu

The is how you say boat

to ride the boat is 보트 타다 bo-teu ta-da

to drive the boat is 보트 운전하다 bo-teu un-jeon-ha-da

But what if you have a big boat? That is a ship! 

Ship in Korean is 배 Bae 

which is also the word for stomach. Context is very important in Korean. 

To ride a ship is 배 타다 bae ta-da

To drive the ship you can say  배 운전하다 bae un-jeon-ha-da

and because it is a ship we could also say pilot a ship

pilot a ship 배 조종하다 bae jo-jong-ha-da

to pilot is 조종하다 jo-jong-ha-da

Here's a chart of everything we learned today:

Hanja Part 2 Names of Countries

THIS IS A DRAFT. IT CONTAINS MANY ERRORS.

Hello my fellow students this is our second lesson on Hanja. Hanja is the use of Chinese characters in Korean writing. Hanja is not used especially often in Korea, but centuries ago Korean was written entirely in Chinese characters. It didn't work very well. So the great King Sejong invented the modern writing system that Korea uses today. Some Chinese characters have stuck around, though. The interesting thing about Chinese writing is that each character represents an entire word, not just a letter. And there is something really appealing about being able to express and entire word in just one little picture. It's kind of like using emojis. And we all know how fun and easy it can be to use emojis rather than typing out an entire sentence.

One place where you see a lot of hanja characters is in newspapers and news articles. In particular, when they are writing the names of countries. But not all countries, just some of the ones that tend to be reported on the most

Here they are:

South Korea

North Korea

Japan

China 

America 

England

Lets start with South Korea it looks like 韓國

this part is the symbol for country. We're gonna see this one a lot today. I think it kind of looks like a map and that's how I remember it means country. the big square is the paper and all those lines are like roads and rivers that's a lake. This is what I do when trying to learn hanja, I try to turn the character into a picture that relates to the word it represents. So this one is a map of a country. 

and this means Han. which is the name of the major river in South Korea. South Korea is known as Han country. To say South Korea in Korean it is han-gook. gook is the word for country. This character looks like 2 stick figures holding hands. or should I say holding "han"s. these stick figures are even wearing traditional korean hats.

Now North Korea has the character for han in it too.

and this one means north. North Korea is north of the han. The word for north is 북(buk). North Korea is buk-han. Infact, you may encounter any of the 4 cardinal directions in hanja. Lets learn em all

north 北 (북buk)

south 南 (남쪽 nam)

east 東 (동쪽 dong)

west 西方 (seo 서쪽)

first of all north makes me think of the north pole where santa's elves live. and this is a picture of the elf's legs and the elf shoes, like on the cover of the movie Elf.

Now south. I see this as a church. that's the walls and the roof, and that's the cross on top. And this thing inside. I think it looks like a sheep. and this help me remember south because in the southern US people are more religious.

West- it looks like that. this is one guy getting lowered into a tank of water and another guy running away. I don't know what this has to do with west. but that is what I see. This is getting difficult.

East - Here's one that I can explain. did ya ever notice that the country to the east of Korea is Japan? Japan is written like this Do you remember this character from our first hanja lesson? It looks like a window and it means sun. Japan is the land of the rising sun. Have you heard that before? land of the rising sun. and the red circle on its flag represents the sun. and where does the sun rise? in the East! This character for east is what you get when you put the characters for Japan ontop of each other.

mind. blown. (Japan in korean is il-bon "il" means day, you know like the days of the week all end in "il" wo-yo-il, hwa-yo-il, su-yo-il and so on. il means day and this character means sun, but it also means day. You use it when you write the date 2023 年 1 月 21 日)

Alright now the country where this whole writing system originated China.

Oh. Oh. Oh. another character we remember from last time "middle"! and we know this one too. It looks like a map. It means country. China means middle country. Why do they call it that? Well the Chinese called themselves middle country because from where they stood there was land to the east, lands to the west, to the south, to the north and where are they standing? well in the middle of course. From your own perspective you are always standing in the middle of the world. When the English created modern time zones they used England as the middle of the world. people are always seeing things from their own perspective. We are the centre of our own universes. that's how china came to be called middle country. (In Korean 중국)

Speaking of England check out how you write that in hanja. Again. we have the character for country. and I swear this is British soldier. Like it looks exactly like a British soldier.

And finally the United States of America. again there it is country country country! but what's this? This is the Chinese character for 'beautiful'. What a nice compliment. If you see this character all by its lonesome it just means beautiful. You might see it in advertising for cosmetics. Actually, maybe not. You're more likely to see English or even French in Korean cosmetics ads. 

South Korea 韓國

North Korea 北韓

Japan 日本

China 中國

England 英國

America 美國

So those are the countries that you will encounter when reading the news in Korean. and they are usually shortened to just 1 character like so.

South Korea 韓

North Korea 北

Japan 日

China 中

England 英

America 美

South Korea is just "Han", North Korea is just "north". Japan is just "sun". China is just "middle", England is just "English", America is just "beautiful". It might seem confusing to give these countries names with double meanings but remember Korean is very contextual. You should able to figure out what you're reading based on context. Although, it is a little funny to think that when the president of Korea makes a trip to Japan the Newspaper says "the president of Korea will fly to the sun tomorrow"

Cardinal Directions Written in Hanja

 

Countries Written in Hanja