Friday, December 28, 2018

The Date in Korean


WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjKyVx5J_CA
This lesson is on how to say the date in Korean. For this lesson you will need to know your Sino Korean numbers.
To say the date in Korean we first say the year and add the word 년(nyeon) to the end. 년(nyeon) is a counter. If you know what a counter is, then great! If you don't you can still understand this lesson & a video on counters is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RiNggsXAhw&t=16s who are curious.
Example:
2018년
i-cheon-ship-pal-nyeon

Then we say the month. The months are just numbers with the word 월(wol) at the end EXCEPT FOR June 유월 and Oct 시월
Example:
December
12월

and thirdly, we say the day, which, no surprise, is represented by a number and it has the word 일(il) at the end.
일(il) is a word with multiple translations: it is the counter for day, and it is sino Korean 1, it also means tooth.
The fact that it means one and day means that on the first of the month you say it is 일일 il-il. If it is January 1st you say
일월 일일
il-wol il-il

if it is Jan 1st, 1001
일천일년 일월 일일
il-cheon-il nyeon il-wol il-il
so many eels! or ills...

and then the last thing you add to the date is the day of the week. And they also end in il. yo-il more specifically
Mon 월요일
Tues 화요일
Wed 수요일
Thur 목요일
Fri 금요일
Sat 토요일
Sun 일요일
So just for fun lets say Sunday, Jan. 1, 1001
일천일년 일월 일일 일요일
il-cheon-il nyeon il-wol il-il il-yo-il
I wonder if that actually was a Sunday...
These days of the week might be hard to memorize... so I found a song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxqnE1GqBg&t=1s

Now let's do some practice. How do we say
Monday, Dec. 31 2018?
every date looks like this:
___년 __월 __일 __요일
and then we fill in the blanks
2018년 12월 31일 월요일
and remember how to say our Sino Korean numbers
이천십팔년 십이월 삼십일일 월요일
that's how you say the date in Korean.
Have some more practice.

Thanks for studying with me.
WATCH THE LESSON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjKyVx5J_CA

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Telling Time in Korean

Hello fellow students. Let's learn about time. Before we begin make sure you know your Korean numbers. Both the Sino and the Native-Korean numbering systems will be needed to tell time. If you aren't already familiar I have a video for each in the description.
TO TELL TIME IN KOREAN YOU USE the native Korean Numbering system for hours and the word 시 means hour or o'clock.
시 is actually a counter. That's another video you should watch. But, basically, when you are saying how many of something there is you need to use a counter. The counter for hours is 시 and numbers 1, 2,3, and 4 all lose their last letter when they're used with a counter.
So we say han-shi instead of hana-shi
du-shi not dul-shi
se-shi and ne-shi without the t sound.
and the rest of the numbers to twelve just like normal da-seot shi ya-seot-shi

And then when we're telling minutes we use the Sino Korean Numbering System and the word for minutes is 분. This word is also a counter. And it's a homonym of the formal word for person. Which could make things confusing, but context should make it obvious which translation is meant.
so just put the sino Korean number in front of 분 (bun) and when you get to 30 min you can instead say half. 반.
Here are a few examples to make sure we understand:
to say 5 o'clock you say
다섯시
to say 1:30 you say
한시 삼십분
or
한시 반
and there's one more important thing to add to the time: AM or PM
AM is 오전 and PM is 오후 and this goes before the time
So 5:00 am is 오전 다섯시
and 1:30 pm is 오후 한시 삼십분 or is 오후 한시 반
 and that's how you tell time in Korean. If you want to say "It is 5:00am" then use the verb i-da 이다
오전 다섯시야.
오전 다섯시여요.
오전 다섯십니다.
Now you know how to say time in Korean. Thanks for studying with me, you guys.
here's some practice answers in the description.