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Hi, apologies in advance for soliciting help here, but I wasn’t sure of a better place to go. Please feel free to point me elsewhere if there’s somewhere more appropriate! I don’t mean to bother anyone!

A classmate of mine left some Korean characters on one of my grad school papers and I’m just trying to figure out what they could mean. Google translate and searching around online is not much helping. As far as I know, my classmate doesn’t know Korean, but they are already multilingual, so I don’t know. They could have some familiarity, or almost none. It’s unclear. (Just some context).

A line of Korean that is partially erased looks like this: 스 다 므 (In the second character, the ㄷ shape is facing the other direction in what they wrote though. And in the final character, the top line of the ㅁ extends out further though, past the edges). (Sorry, I don’t know how to use the Korean keyboard).

Another line, not erased, reads as such:

배 타 피 스

Thanks for any help.

I'm trying to enrol in the Beginner 1A course and saw that all of the English slots have been filled up.

Strangely, the Korean slots have many spaces and I just enrolled into one. I'm really confused as to why there are so many spaces available for the Korean slots?

Is it simply a case of people preferring to be taught in their native language or have I completely misunderstood how the course works?

You know, how the registrations are going on for the 2nd term and all the courses for english are filled up.

I am in introductory course at the moment. Tell me is there any chance for me to get 1A course during the cancellation period?

The second thing is simple what books refer to from their textbooks section because I am so confused!

Thank you!

What are my chances of getting into Woosong University in Korea as an international student with a medium GPA and an IELTS score of 6.5 for a full scholarship?

I got back into learning Korean and I am confused about a few things. In my TTMIK book I just learned in chapter 3 that 그래서 means “therefore” / “so”. I know that there are different ways of saying anything but I today heard that 아서 or that 어서 is more common.. My first question is which of these is more common if they both means what I think they mean. Secondly how do I know whether to use 아서 or 어서? I’m assuming that I look at the latest vowel and decide like I would a conjugation but I am not sure so I wanted to ask just incase.

Secondly I’m confused about 서 and 에서. What’s the difference between both of them. Originally I learned that 서 is added to state a location which is why in a phrase like wait here it’s placed after 여기. What confuses me is I later learned heard that 서 isn’t really used alone and it means the same if not extremely similar as 에서.

Overall just loss when comparing and knowing the difference between the first two and also the last 2. Any help is appreciated

i was watching a video from a radio show where the host was presenting a movie and said “보다 보면 마음이 서걱서걱 시려져서 무더운 여름에도 잘 어울리거든요.” (that’s what i got from a video transcriber, i can’t add the video so not sure if something is wrong). my question is how is 서걱서걱 used when describing an emotion? what does it mean in this context? i had only heard about it being used when describing sound.

I'm currently in Seoul and was just at a cafe - My Korean listening and reading is pretty decent but speaking is slightly limited and I'm not the most confident person, so this interaction threw me off ㅠㅠ

I'd eaten a meal and drink at the cafe and had a dessert left which I was too full to eat, so I went back to the counter with the dessert and said

'이거 포장해도 되나요?'

and iirc the worker said '아 포장이요. 안 드시는 거예요?'

so I just said '네'.

but she then kept asking the same thing in different ways like i had said smth wrong.. so I was flustered and said '배불러요' and something like '포장해주면 제가 가져갈게요' to show i am going to eat it, just not now.

she seemed annoyed and the other worker said '안 드시는 것 같은데' and they both kinda laughed? lmao I felt like such an idiot but I have no idea what i was supposed to say, like in that context does 드시는 거 have a different meaning maybe?

the whole interaction just confused me because if I'm asking you to package it, I'm obviously not eating it now? so I don't know what the point of the question was. that's why I got flustered and didn't know what to say. kinda ruined my day bc they had such a weird attitude about it

does anyone understand if/what I could've said different? thanks 😔

안녕하세요 여러분, hopefully this isn't something too much off topic, but does anyone know why the King Sejong Institute website is constantly under a division of whoever can access the site lately? Also, even after waiting in line and getting in, after a while it takes me back to the queue randomly. Does anyone know why and if there's a way not to make it randomly refresh during a lesson?

If anyone also knows any book/website/whatever to recommend while this problem persists, I'd kindly take the piece of advice.

고마워요💗

the ring is made from a coin i believe

Complete beginner here. Three weeks of Duol͏ingo and I can read Hangul reasonably well, but already noticing the app never pushes me to produce language at all. Just recognizing patterns, not speaking.

Building a stack: TTMI͏K for structured grammar, Anki͏ for vocabulary with spaced repetition, and testing Pro͏mova app for short speaking sessions. It has Korean and a short lesson format, and you can practice responses to scenarios in a calm way before you are ready for Hell͏oTalk. Eventually want to learn Korean online and reach actual conversational level, not just reading competence.

What combination of resources actually got you to conversational Korean? And what is the fastest bridge from knowing Hangul to having a basic real conversation?

I haven't done any official test but I believe I probably know at least level 1 level... I can hold basic conversations.

I know many might recommend talk to me in korean but they're too expensive and way out if ny budget... Please tell me about some cheaper and good books, thank you!

One thing I really love with learning hanja is it makes it easier to understand why words mean what they mean and how to pick up stuff you already know and apply it to new words (for example, I know 外 and 出張 so when I saw 외출/外出 without context I could guess its meaning first try)

One thing I struggle with is memorizing korean-native words. I kind of get the "parts" of the words sometimes just from exposure, but for example I just saw 휘파람, where I know why "파람" is here but I don't get what 휘 means. What does 감 in 장난감 mean? No idea (Edit: I asked Gemini and if it's right then that would have been very useful to know), and it's a little more difficult to look up vs if this was in hanja. Is there a good resource that will break down words in the same way hanja resources will? Thanks!

“기억이 안 나” means i dont remember right?

Can i verify if this is correct and natural - 기억이 안 나도록 메모해 두세요? Literally “so that you dont remember, jot it down”?

For a concert tomorrow, I am giving him a note and I just wanna make sure it makes sense!

이건우 님께,

콘서트에서 당신을 직접 본다는 게 어떤 느낌인지 완벽하게 표현할 수 있을지는 모르겠지만, 그래도 한번 써보고 싶어요.

그곳에 서서, 관중 속에서 당신의 목소리를 라이브로 듣는 순간은 공연이 끝난 후에도 오래도록 제 마음에 남아요. 따뜻함과 설렘이 동시에 느껴지고, 잠시 동안은 다른 모든 것이 사라지는 것 같아요. 단순한 무대를 넘어서, 당신이 보여주는 에너지와 수많은 사람들 속에서도 모두와 연결되는 그 느낌이 정말 특별해요. 신기하게도 아주 개인적인 순간처럼 느껴지기도 하고요.

무대 위의 당신을 보고 있으면 정말 생생하고 진심이 느껴져서 그 순간들이 더 소중하게 다가와요. 한 음 한 음, 모든 순간이 의미 있게 느껴지고, 마치 당신이 자신의 일부를 우리에게 나누어 주는 것 같아요. 그 점을 저는 결코 당연하게 생각하지 않아요.

당신의 콘서트를 보고 나면 항상 마음이 한결 가벼워지고, 더 행복해지고, 큰 영감을 받아요. 음악이 얼마나 큰 힘을 가지고 있는지, 또 얼마나 많은 사람들을 하나로 이어줄 수 있는지 다시금 느끼게 해줘요. 당신 덕분에 오래도록 간직할 소중한 추억들을 만들 수 있었어요.

항상 열정과 재능으로 많은 사람들에게 기쁨을 주셔서 진심으로 감사해요.

당신이 얼마나 많은 사랑을 받고 있는지 꼭 알았으면 좋겠어요.

언제나 사랑과 응원을 담아,

크리스 드림

I saw a sentence: 큰 소리로 전화하지 마세요. and now I'm interesting in all grammatical meaning that 로 carries.

I know it can be used with transport, meaning method of transportation. and know that we can use it like a method of using something, like eating foor with chopsticks will 밥을 젓가락로 먹어요

I’ve been learning Korean for about 9 years. I can read and write comfortably, and I understand a fair amount, but my speaking is still quite limited.

I feel stuck because I keep revising things I already know instead of progressing. I’m not sure what I should be focusing on next to actually improve fluency and expand my vocabulary in a practical way.

For those who reached an intermediate/advanced level, what specific methods or study routines helped you start speaking more naturally and consistently?

these three grammars already have a meaning of doing something/go somewhere to do something, like with purpose and intent to do so in the future, right? or.. we still can use future forms to these grammars? I just don't understand, cause once my teacher said that those grammar already has meaning of future activity, but in Internet I see that we can use future forms for them. I'm so confused

Anki users, how do you deal with words with multiple meanings/usages (nouns/verbs)? What's the best way to do it? I think I might've done it the wrong way by putting it all in 1 card lol. Please share your experience, thank you very much!

“ A: 나는 한국 나간다

B: 언제??

얼마나??

A: 나 9월쯤에

최소 4~5년정도?

미용 시작할려고 한국 가는거거든

B: 오옹!!! 축하축하!!

넌 뭔가 잘 할 것 같아!

여친은 같이 가?

A: 고마워

영 같이 나가

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B: 너무 축하해!!!

둘이 이쁜 사랑 오래오래 하고!!

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