Post your fifth bi-weekly report on your language-learning activities
These past two weeks, we continued with learning how to say correct sentence structures by studying 이/가.
I personally struggle with using these words because they seem so small, and I tend to forget to use them.
Evelyn told me that I needed to work on incorporating these words into my speaking because it sounds better and helps facilitate better conversations.
From my learning, I have come to understand that these words are used to help with the flow of the conversation. It helps to characterize which noun is being talked about, and what action is being done to the noun.
With that being said, I will first start off with 이/가. 이 is used when the word before ends in a consonant. For example, when I say in Korean "Sharon is ---------," I would say "샤론이" before, adding the 이 to my name "샤론" to add some fluidity. The 이 in this case is used to describe who is the noun in the sentence. I would say it's kind of like an emphasis on the noun. In English, I would say the equivalent would be similar to a conversation like this:
Who took the cookie from the cookie jar?
Sharon did (이)
Sharon
Contrasting from English, it is necessary and must be said. However, the role of these characters is to emphasize and bring to light the noun being mentioned.
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