Bi-weekly post #5

[Mary Lee]

This week we learned the different variations of 가다(to go) and 오다(to come) based on the different positions of where you are and your relation to the person going and coming. Some examples are 나가요 which means someone is leaving your house,room, etc. whereas 나와요 is when someone is coming outside to meet you. 올라가요 is when someone is leaving up the stairs. 내려와요 is when someone is coming down the stairs towards you. We also learned the different ethnic restaurants such as 한식집(Korean restaurant), 일식집(Japanese restaurant), 양식집(Western food restaurant), and 중국집(Chinese restaurant). The next week we learned the sentence structure where we suggest something. You first have the verb and then the subsequent ending of -ㄹ/을까요? You could say 식당에 갈까요?(Shall we go to the dining hall?) If you are talking more informally with someone you can use the structure of the verb used and the ending of -ㅂ/읍시다. This asks the listener to perform some action together and is a stronger way of suggesting something. For example, 영화를 봅시다(Let’s watch a movie together).