This podcast is brought to you by Kay, a veteran Korean teacher and author of several Korean language books, including Korean Through Folktales, Essential Korean for Daily Conversation, and Online Learning Module for Advanced and Superior Korean. If you want to learn from a teacher who explains the nuances of the Korean language and its grammar, asks you questions, and practices with you with real-life examples, this podcast is for you. If you like the content of this podcast, please check o ...
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53. Korean Cinema & Music: A Journey Through 'ㅆ을까
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Dive into the poetic depths of the Korean language with Episode 53 of the Essential Korean Podcast, where Kay샘 unravels the complexities of 'ㅆ을까'—a grammatical form that captures the poignant musings of past choices and the bittersweet tang of what might have been. In this episode, we dissect a poignant scene from a movie, parsing the emotion behin…
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52. Mastering Korean Food Verbs for Iconic Korean Dishes
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Transcript and Key Lesson Points - - - In this episode, we explore unique Korean verbs that are associated with the preparation of traditional dishes such as kimchi 김치, jjigae 찌개, namul 나물, and more. This episode introduces the verbs in a fun and interactive way, using vivid imagery and repetition for a memorable learning experience. You'll not onl…
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51. How To Use Question Word 몇 for Numbers and Classifiers in Korean
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we'll cover one of the question words, which is long overdue because we had an episode, Episode 3, on basic questions such as 뭐예요 (what is it), 언제예요 (when is it…
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Welcome to the Essential Korean Podcast, where I help break down the nuances of the Korean language to help you become a more aware and confident speaker of Korean. We’ve created the Essential Korean membership to help provide a complete set of tools to elevate your Korean to the next level. Check that out on our website, along with my weekly newsl…
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49. How To Express Wants or Wishes Part 2: What He/She/They Want (3rd Persons)
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Welcome to the Essential Korean Podcast, where I help break down the nuances of the Korean language to help you become a more aware and confident speaker of Korean. We’ve created the Essential Korean membership to help provide a complete set of tools to elevate your Korean to the next level. Check that out on our website, along with my weekly newsl…
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48. How To Express Wants or Wishes Part 1: What 'I' or 'We' Want
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we will learn the pattern most frequently used in daily conversation to express what 'I' or 'we' wants in Korean.…
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47. 사랑해 줘 Love me VS. 사랑해 주세요 Love me - The difference?
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! - - - In this episode, we will discuss speech styles and speech levels (again :), this tiime with a question from a student, based on a situation from the drama, 힘쎈 여자 도봉순 Strong Girl…
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46. At a Cafe in Korea: What You Will Hear and How To Order
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In today's episode, we'll take a break from grammar-focused lessons for a more real-life situation-based lesson! We will learn: 1) a few very useful expressions you will hear in…
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45. Future Tense in Korean | Part 3
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- This episode is the last in our three-part series on Korean future tense. We’ll expand upon what we have learned in the previous episodes by combining a few sentences with verbs…
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44. "It’s OK. Everything Will Turn Out Alright" in Music
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- (We were supposed to have Part 3 on the topic of Korean future tense covered in this episode, but I’ve decided to give ourselves a little break with some music today, sprinkled …
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43. Future Tense in Korean | Part 2
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- Today’s episode will continue our journey with the future tense, and is divided into three parts: 1) discussion on the difference between the future tense form and the present t…
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42. Future Tense in Korean | Part 1
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In today’s episode, we have another exciting grammar point to cover: the future tense form in Korean. We’ll learn how to conjugate verbs in the future tense, as well as how to c…
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41. How to Approach Making Complex Korean Sentences & Pronouncing the 고 Conjunctive in Colloquial Speech (& Tribute to Extraordinary Attorney Woo :)
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we’ll do two things: First, we’ll be revisiting sentences from previous episode to learn how to pronounce the 고 conjunctive in casual, colloquial language and p…
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40. Past Tense Part 2 & -고 Conjunctive
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In today’s episode, we will combine all the key lesson points you’ve learned from Episodes 37 and 38 on the 고 conjunctive and Episode 39 on past tense. By the end of the lesson,…
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39. How To Form Past Tense in Korean (w/ situational examples)
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we will be learning about how to form the past tense in Korean, step-by-step. We'll learn the general past tense form first, and then we’ll go through a number …
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38. "아깝다" & -고 Conjunctive - Part 2
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- This episode consists of two parts: A mini-lesson on the very Korean word "아깝다" Further lesson on the verb conjunctive 고, using the song 일상으로의 초대 (Invitation To My Routine) by S…
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37. Verb Conjunctive -고 (introducing our first verb conjunctive!)
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we will learn our very first verb conjunctive, the 고 conjunctive! When we add the verbal conjunctive -고 to a verb stem (VS), the conjugated verb carries the mea…
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36. More Situational Examples: Present Tense & Its Meanings (Bonus: 김치찌개 recipe!)
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- This episode is an extension of the previous episode, Episode 35, which centered on the Korean present tense and its meanings. To reinforce the key points covered in the last ep…
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35. Korean Present Tense Form & Its Meanings
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- This episode will first introduce a few expressions exchanged with someone you haven't seen for a while. Then, for the most part, it'll discuss the Korean present tense form & i…
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34. How To Use Particle 에 l Part 3: Temporal
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- We’ll continue with the particle 에, and, as the last part of this 3-part series, look at how it can be used to signal when an action or activity takes place. As always, this epi…
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33. How To Use Particle 에 l Part 2: Destination
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- We’ll continue with the particle 에, and, as the second part of this 3-part series, look at how it can be used to signal a destination. The usage we’ll learn in this episode is t…
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32. How To Use Particle 에 l Part 1: Locational
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, you’ll be introduced to the multi-use particle 에. It has three primary functions: 1) existence, where 에 follows a place to indicate whether an object is present…
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, Teacher Kay will share her thoughts on the single most asked question she's received over the past year, which is "How do I study Korean?" This is an excellent …
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30.5. Korean Pop Music & the Language
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- You'll find that the structure of this episode, Ep. 30.5, is a bit different from what you are used to (that is if you're a regular listener of our podcast :) It was recorded in…
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, you'll learn how to utilize the particle 만, the 'exclusive particle,' while reviewing some of the other particles we've learned so far. *Featured Song > Title: …
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29. When NOT To Use Particle 을/를 (Part 2 of 을/를!)
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we will learn about when NOT to use the Korean object particle 을/를 with situational examples. This is going to be a short and sweet episode, but with indispensa…
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28. How To Use The Object Particle 을/를
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we will learn how to use the Korean object particle 을/를 and compare it with other particles we've learned. And, we will hear a part of the song 잊을게 I'll Forget …
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27. How To Use Particle 이/가 (and compare with Particle 은/는)
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we will learn how to use the particle 이/가 and how the particle 이/가 is used differently from the particle 은/는. And, we will hear a part of the song by Roy Kim ti…
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26. Learn Days of the Week and How To Ask What Others Think in Korean
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we will learn two things: how to say the seven days of the week in Korean how to ask someone what they think of something And, of course, we have a song to shar…
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25. Learn More Korean Numbers (20 to 90 in increments of 10) & New Noun Connector 와/과
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In today’s episode, we'll learn : the Korean number words from 20 to 90 in increments of 10; a new noun connector, the 와/과 set And, of course, I have a song I want to share with…
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24. More About Native Korean Numbers & How To Use the Additive Particle 도
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we will do two things: Learn how to count from 6 through 10 in Korean and what you can expect about learning native Korean numbers from 1 through 99. Learn abou…
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23. How To Count in Korean (Yay, we’re learning numbers!) & Use Korean Numbers in Conversation
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we will do two things: Learn how to count from 1 through 5 in Korean (with a song :) Practice using the numbers in a conversation (You should be able to underst…
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22. How To Contract 은/는 Particle & Use Conjunctive Words in Korean
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we will learn how the contraction of the particle 은/는 works in colloquial speech and practice speaking contracted phrases in sentences. We will also practice us…
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21. How To Connect Nouns with 하고 & Sentences with 그리고 + Using Particle 은/는 with them
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we will learn two things: How to connect nouns with 하고 and sentences with 그리고 How to utilize the connector within sentences with the 은/는 particle (Remember? - w…
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20. How To Use Korean Particle 은/는 as Topic & Contrastive Particle in Sentences (Yes, we're now learning Korean particles!)
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, you’ll be introduced to the Korean particle system. There are two primary types of Korean particles: One type of particle simply marks the function of the word …
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19. How To Express What Someone Doesn't Do in Korean (Verb Negation)
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we’ll learn how to negate verb forms, or more simply, how to express what someone doesn’t do. We’ve learned previously how to say what actions we do, like “I ea…
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18. How To Make Korean Sentences with Pronouns 'I,' 'we,' my,' and 'our' & 10 More Action Verbs
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, continuing from the last episode, you will learn 8 more Korean pronouns and practice using them in sentences with 10 more action verbs we use daily. The practic…
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17. How To Make Korean Sentences with Pronouns 'I' and 'we' & 13 Action Verbs
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, you will learn 4 Korean pronouns for ‘I’ and ‘we’; and practice using them in sentences with 13 action verbs we use daily. The verbs introduced in this episode …
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16. Speech Levels of the Korean Language (with Review of Speech Styles) & 6 Verbs of Daily Routine
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- This episode will start with a review using K-dramas and a K-pop song to illustrate some of the key points discussed in the last episode about "Speech Styles." Then we'll get to…
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15. Speech Styles of the Korean Language
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, you will learn about "Speech Styles" of the Korean language, specifically the polite style and the casual style used in colloquial speech. If you have heard peo…
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14. Basic Terms to Learn for Korean Grammar Lessons
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, you will be introduced to a few basic and important terms that set the foundation for learning Korean grammar. We'll take a closer look at these terms one at a …
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13. How To Say Something Is Present or Is Absent & What Someone Has or Does Not Have In Korean
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we feature two verbs, 있다 and 없다. The verb 있다 means 'to be present' or 'to have'; and the verb 없다 means 'to be absent' and 'to no have.' We also introduce 5 new …
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12. Basic Sentence Structure of Korean
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, you will learn 3 aspects of the basic sentence structure of Korean with two featured sentences: "나 한국말 공부해요" : I study Korean "나 김치 먹어요" : I eat kimchi. This ep…
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11. Review of Learned Phrases in CONVERSATIONS
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, we will review the expressions introduced from Episode 1 through Episode 10. We'll do this situationally, in conversations, so that you can see how these expres…
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10. How To Tell Understanding & Knowing: Difference between 알겠습니다 & 알겠어요 & More Comparisons
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, you will learn 12 variations of two Korean verbs 알다 'to understand' or 'to know' and 모르다 'to not understand' or 'to not know.' Many Korean students ask about th…
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9. How To Say What Something is NOT, How To Express Surprise, & How To Say Congratulations In Korean
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, you will learn 8 new Korean to use in real-life situations. By the end of this episode, you'll have learned when to use and how to say: the daily expression whi…
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8. Useful Application of Learned Expressions & More Essential Korean Phrases
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, you will learn nine very useful Korean expressions to use in real-life situations you're likely to encounter in Korea. A couple of expressions are newly introdu…
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7. How To Get Someone's Attention In Korean & Tell What You Want In The Simplest Form
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, you will learn four new essential expressions used to get someone's attention in Korean and how to say what you want in the simplest form possible, along with u…
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6. Must-Know Korean Greetings & Farewells in Various Situations
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, you will learn five new essential greetings and farewells used in daily life situations. We'll continue with the situation in Episode 1 where an exchange studen…
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5. Difference Between Two Korean "Thank You" Phrases & Several Responses To Thank You In Korean
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* If you liked the content of our podcast, please visit our website, essentialkorean.com, to check out our thoughtfully presented courses, along with other resources! ----- In this episode, you will learn how to say thank you and a few ways to respond to an expression of gratitude in Korean. Moreover, you will also gain some insights into subtle di…
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