I have learned about 55 new words with my language partner. But the issue is trying to remember them and be able to correlate it with the English translation.
I learned how to say greetings and introductions both informal and formal, some grammar structure, I like phrases, phrases and words associated with restaurants and dining, numbers, some food and drink words, a few traveling phrases, action words, and business related phrases.
Some of these phrases are:
- See you later (formal) --> man na seo ban gab seub ni da
- What's your name? (formal) --> seonghami eo ddeoh gae dwA sae yo
- Haven't seen you in ages (informal) --> o laen man i ya
- How are you? (informal) --> jal ji naess eo
- how? --> eo ddeoh gae
- I like traveling --> na neun yeo haeng haneun geol
- doing something --> ha neun geol
- How many people? (formal) --> myeot myeong i sae yo?
- # people --> # myeong i yo
- 2 people --> du myeong
- to come --> oda
- (measurement for people) --> myeong
- (measurement for object) --> gae
- 1 person --> han myeong
- 3 people --> sae myeong
- Bulgogi
- Hamburger --> Haem beo geo
- water --> mul
I have to keep practicing in remembering and recalling these phrases!!
I kind of think I have realistic goals. In the beginning, I kind of feel like I was too ambitious in trying to learn too much in one session. Therefore I have scaled it back a few notches in order to pace myself and make it easier for learning. As of right now, I still think I have ambitious goals in trying to be fluent in Korean. But I do have realistic goals as well. I'm happy that I was able to learn some important phrases related to introductions, farewells, greetings, and dining. I know that there are so many versions to say one phrase in Korean, to which I still need to learn but that would be another time.
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