As of now, I am sure of what I am going to do during my presentation. I am going to find a famous saying and decipher it. I have found an article on Korean proverbs which I will link at the end of this post. The website provides a basic translation, so I will try to find a deeper meaning within the quotes. By next week I will have decided on a quote and will start thinking about explanations. Despite the preparations, I have still not achieved what this 20% time was supposed to help me with. My grasp on Korean is poor and I do not think I can hold a conversation yet. So in the coming weeks, I will try to speak with my mentor in complete and correct sentences. I will report back on this in a few weeks since it might be difficult to do.
The link mentioned: http://seoulistic.com/korean-culture/wise-korean-proverbs-to-live-by/
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Monday, October 20, 2014
Future tense
This week I focused on future tense. In Korean, there are two types of future tense, probable and intentional. Neither are directly similar to English forms of the future tense, but they are easy enough to get a grasp on.
Probable future tense, as its name implies, tells what is likely to happen. The example given in the website reads, "I will probably eat" and "I will probably go to school tomorrow." It then gives the same phrase in Korean. 난 먹을 거에요. When I got to this point, I was stumped. For the other tenses, I already had a bit of knowledge on the area, but this time, I was in a completely new territory, so I decided to consult my mentor. He told me that this was the formal way of talking in the future tense and that the form that I am probably used to hearing is the informal way of speaking.
The second future tense form is the intentional future tense. In the intentional future tense, you add 겠(gess) to the end of the base verb. Then add 어 or 어요 to the word. This form is more certain than the probable future tense. There are less implications and more intents.
The rest of my time this week was practicing this form and the forms I learned in previous weeks.
Again, the website I am using to help me with verb tenses is http://www.learnkoreanlanguage.com/Verb-Tenses.html.
Probable future tense, as its name implies, tells what is likely to happen. The example given in the website reads, "I will probably eat" and "I will probably go to school tomorrow." It then gives the same phrase in Korean. 난 먹을 거에요. When I got to this point, I was stumped. For the other tenses, I already had a bit of knowledge on the area, but this time, I was in a completely new territory, so I decided to consult my mentor. He told me that this was the formal way of talking in the future tense and that the form that I am probably used to hearing is the informal way of speaking.
The second future tense form is the intentional future tense. In the intentional future tense, you add 겠(gess) to the end of the base verb. Then add 어 or 어요 to the word. This form is more certain than the probable future tense. There are less implications and more intents.
The rest of my time this week was practicing this form and the forms I learned in previous weeks.
Again, the website I am using to help me with verb tenses is http://www.learnkoreanlanguage.com/Verb-Tenses.html.
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Preparing for My Final Presentation
Saturday, October 11, 2014.
After much consideration, I have decided on a final presentation that is both within my ability and plausible in the time I have allotted. I have decided to translate and decipher a Korean proverb; although, I have still not found one. I plan to find the quote within the next couple weeks. I am sure that if I have trouble finding a quote or proverb, my mentor can assist me, so I am not worried about not being able to find one.
The three tenses I have learned in the previous weeks have been helpful in my understanding of the language. I think in addition to present tense, past tense, and infinitive tense, future tense will be the next tense to have a lot of real world use.
I did not want to overload myself the week before I took SAT subject tests so this week was not as accomplishing as I wanted it to be. Hopefully next week will be better since early applications for some colleges will be over by then.
After much consideration, I have decided on a final presentation that is both within my ability and plausible in the time I have allotted. I have decided to translate and decipher a Korean proverb; although, I have still not found one. I plan to find the quote within the next couple weeks. I am sure that if I have trouble finding a quote or proverb, my mentor can assist me, so I am not worried about not being able to find one.
The three tenses I have learned in the previous weeks have been helpful in my understanding of the language. I think in addition to present tense, past tense, and infinitive tense, future tense will be the next tense to have a lot of real world use.
I did not want to overload myself the week before I took SAT subject tests so this week was not as accomplishing as I wanted it to be. Hopefully next week will be better since early applications for some colleges will be over by then.
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Past tense
Saturday, October 4, 2014
As I did last week, I am learning more verb tenses this week.
The first tense I learned this week is the past tense. To turn a verb into its past tense form, you take the base of the word and add the component 었(pronounced uhs) and then add 어(pronounced uh). For formality, also add 요(pronounced yoh). For example, to make the word 먹다(eat) past tense, take the base 먹(pronounced muhk), add 었, and then add 어요 to make 먹었어요(ate).
Due to the complexity of the past tense and the different conjugation rules surrounding it, I could only work on one tense this week, but I will go over the tenses that I learned last week.
The infinitive form of a verb is formed by adding 다(pronounced da) to the base of a verb. For example, adding 다 to the word for eating, makes 먹다(to eat).
The present form is made by adding 어요 (pronounced uh yo). Again using the word 먹(eat), to create the present form, add 어요 to 먹 to make 먹어요(eating).
The website I used is the same as last week, but I will link it again.
http://www.learnkoreanlanguage.com/Verb-Tenses.html
As I did last week, I am learning more verb tenses this week.
The first tense I learned this week is the past tense. To turn a verb into its past tense form, you take the base of the word and add the component 었(pronounced uhs) and then add 어(pronounced uh). For formality, also add 요(pronounced yoh). For example, to make the word 먹다(eat) past tense, take the base 먹(pronounced muhk), add 었, and then add 어요 to make 먹었어요(ate).
Due to the complexity of the past tense and the different conjugation rules surrounding it, I could only work on one tense this week, but I will go over the tenses that I learned last week.
The infinitive form of a verb is formed by adding 다(pronounced da) to the base of a verb. For example, adding 다 to the word for eating, makes 먹다(to eat).
The present form is made by adding 어요 (pronounced uh yo). Again using the word 먹(eat), to create the present form, add 어요 to 먹 to make 먹어요(eating).
The website I used is the same as last week, but I will link it again.
http://www.learnkoreanlanguage.com/Verb-Tenses.html
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