Welcome to Level 3, everyone! And congratulations on finishing Level 1 and Level 2. In this lesson, we are introducing an expression that is very commonly used, and in two opposite meanings, too. The expression is 너무 [neo-mu] and it can be used to mean both "very" in positive sentences and "too much" in negative sentences. Listen in to learn more about how it is used! TalkToMeInKorean.com

Hello everyone, we are back with another lesson! Like many languages in the world, there are many conjuctions in the Korean language. In this lesson we are introducing two of them: 그리고 and 그래서. 그리고 [geu-ri-go] has the meaning of “and” and “and then”, depending on the context. 그래서 [geu-rae-seo] has the meaning of “therefore” and “so”. If you have any questions, please feel free, as always, to leave us a comment! 감사합니다.

안녕하세요. ^^ In this lesson, we are looking at the object marking particles. As we mentioned a few times through our previous lessons, there are different types of particles in Korean, and these particles (subject marking particles, topic marking particles, location marking particles, and so on) are what make it easy to understand Korean sentences, even when the word order changes. If you have any questions, please feel free, as always, to leave us a comment! 감사합니다.

Congratulations on finishing Level 1 and advancing to Level 2! You have already learned a lot, but you can't stop there, right? Stay with us and don't forget that practice makes perfect and we are always here to talk with you in Korean! Level 2 Lesson 1 introduces the future tense. Future tense is very easy to use once you learn how, so let's get right into it! Listen to the audio podcast and be sure to check out the PDF as well! Thank you! 감사합니다!

TTMIK Level 1 Lesson 3 After listening to this lesson, you will be able to say good-bye in Korean. Do you remember how to say “Hello.” in Korean? 안녕하세요. [an-nyeong-ha-se-yo] If you remember 안녕하세요, that is fantastic. And if you even remember that “안녕” in 안녕하세요 means “peace” and “well-being”, that is even more fantastic. 안녕 [an-nyeong] = well-being, peace, health And in Korean, when you say “Good-bye” in formal/polite Korean, 존댓말 [jondaetmal], there are two types of expressions, and both of these expressions have the word 안녕 [an-nyeong] in them. One is when you are the one who is leaving. And the other is when you are the one who is staying. If you are leaving, and the other person is (or the other people are) staying, you can say: 안녕히 계세요. [an-nyeong-hi gye-se-yo] If you are staying, an the other person is (or the other people are) leaving, you can say: 안녕히 가세요. [an-nyeong-hi ga-se-yo] For now, don’t worry about the literary meaning of the expressinos and just learn them as they are, but if you are really curious and if we were forced to translate these greetings, they would be translated like this. 안녕히 계세요. = Stay in peace. 안녕히 가세요. = Go in peace. But again, don’t worry about the literal meaning of these greetings JUST YET! ** One tip Hyunwoo would like to give you: When Korean people say 안녕하세요 [an-nyeong-ha-se-yo], 안녕히 계세요 [an-nyeong-hi gye-se-yo] or 안녕히 가세요 [an-nyeong-hi ga-se-yo], they don’t always pronounce EVERY single letter clearly. So often times, what you would hear is just the ending part, “세요” [se-yo]. So you can deliberately sound more fluent by just saying 세요 [se-yo] for all of these occasions. http://TalkToMeInKorean.com