Learning Journal #3 (105)

[Jeffrey Choi]

The sentence and word structure is significantly different to English. Koreans do not conjugate verbs using agreement with the subject. A reference to the past in Korean would be made through a single past tense. In English, there would be many other possibilities such as past simple, present perfect, past perfect continuous. The Korean language also uses a subject-object-verb grammatical structure. For example, I am learning Korean would be pronounced I am Korean learning. All this information can be found through some simple research online. There are many educational sites that teach these important concepts of the Korean language. I think a reference grammar would be beneficial in reinforcing the structural ideas of the Korean language. It would helpful in the beginning of learning the language because all the grammatical differences compared to English would be new to me.