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Household TermsIf you have completed lessons 1-5, you are now ready to start learning household terms. It is mainly a bunch of vocabulary words...I know, that doesn't sound fun, but it's part of the language! One of the hardest things about learning any language is just building a large enough vocabulary.Luckily for you, this lesson will be full of items commonly found around the house. You will see them frequently, so whenever you do, think of the Korean word, not the English word. This is the best way to learn all the household terms. Plus, you will begin to build the foundation of your vocabulary with common items and tasks. You will get used to the structure of sentences and the language, and can practice while you walk around at home! It'll be a breeze :) Household Term Nouns
Household Term VerbsHere is a list of common household verbs to go along with the household terms. To form the casual style, drop the 요 at the end.
Total, that will give you 19 household verbs and 31 household nouns, 50 household terms total! I recommend memorizing the lists over the next few days. Once you have them memorized, remember to remember the Korean household term for the object or task you are doing whenever you do it! This will help you retain the vocabulary much faster than continuously returning to the list or a dictionary. This is a good idea to try with any word in the language, not just household terms. Keep that in mind for future lessons! Household Terms does not have to be the only easy lesson! A Korean Paragraph Using Household TermsNow this can be your real first lesson diving into real Korean and real sentences. It will be based using the vocabulary above, and we will examine some sentences and then have some practice ones. First, read through the following paragraph. Try your best to understand it, even if there are a couple of words you do not know yet :) You will be amazed at what you can accomplish by now if you have done the previous lessons and learned some household terms. It will all be in present tense since that is the only tense that has been discussed so far. Be sure to read it outloud to yourself at least once! 7시에 일어나요. 운동하고 샤워해요. 샴푸하고 비누 없어요. 나는 8시에 먹어요. 학교에 가요. 학교에서 공부해요. 3시 집에 와요, 그리고 숙제해요. 4시에 청소하고 놀아요! 6시 반에 저녁 먹어요 (밥과 김치와 불고기!). 저녁 후에 텔레비전을 봐요. 그리고 책을 읽어요. 9시 자요. 알아요? I bet you did! Now that you have read it, let me cover a couple things that you may have picked up. First off, this is a general account of what could happen in a day using the household terms, but all in the present tense. numbers were used to help you pick up on this. As you may have noticed, 시 means hour. 3시 means 3:00. 반 means half. It is used when you say 3:30. 3시 반. 3 hours and half! 분 is used like 시, but means minutes (it is not needed when you use 반). 3시 26분에 means at 3:26. if you see 하고 attached to a noun, it will either mean "and" or it will mean "with". In these cases, it means "and". 불고기하고 밥 would mean bulgogi and rice. Yet wait, you see another thing used for and when I listed the foods. When using to attach nouns, you can also use 와 and 과. 와 comes after a word that ends in a vowel, while 과 after a noun that ends in a consonant. It will have the same meaning as 하고. There were a few 그리고 in there. That means "and" as well! When connecting sentences that is. One final thing, if you see two or three things that all seem like verbs but don't seem to have the exact same end on the word as you would've thought (운동하고 샤워해요) You would think it would be 운동해요. But, this is one last way to use "and". When listing verbs, you can add 고 to the stem of the verb. Only the final verb in the list will be conjugated otherwise. Now read that paragraph again (or maybe twice!) now that you understand those couple things. Now continue to read an English translation... At 7:00 I get up. I exercise and shower. There is no shampoo and soap :( . At 8:00 I eat. I go to school. At school I study. I come home at 3:00, and I do homework. At 4:00 I clean and play! At 6:30 I eat dinner (rice and kimchi and bulgogi!). After dinner, I watch tv, and read a book. at 9:00 I sleep. Korean Practice Using Household Terms한국말 책을 읽어요.
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