Korean Lesson.

Greeting Words

Greeting Words.

When learning a language, people always want to learn "hello." "How are you." And "thank you" before anything else. I knle that However, at this stahe you only know words and have no knowledge or experience in how to use or conjugate these words. The grammar within these words too complex for you to understand right now. However, you can just memorize these words as one unit and not worry about the grammar within them at this point.
안녕하세요 -Hello
감사합니다 and 고마워 are the two words that commonly used to say thank you. However, they are rarely used in those forms and are almost always conjugated. They can be conjugated in a variety ways, which you won't learn until Lesson 5 and Lesson 6. I will show You a list pf the mpre commonly used bprms, but I can't stress enough that you won't understand how this works until later lessons:
감사합니다
감사해요
고마워 
고맙습니다
고마워요
잘지내세요? - How are you?

Technically the appropriate expression i Korea, buy not as common as "How are you." In English. I would say that using "잘지내세요?" Is an English style of greeting people in Korean.
제발 - Please.

It is, of course important for you to memorize these expression in Korean, but you need to know that theh are said that way. For now, don't worry about why they are said that way, and simply memorize them. We will get back to them later lessons when they become important.

Sentence Word Order.

One of thw hardest thing to wrap your head around Korean is the alien-like sentence structure. For our purposes in Lesson 1, Korean sentences are written in the following order:

Subject - Object - Verb (for example: I hamburger eat)
Or Subject - Adjective (For example: I beautiful)

I am going to quickly explain what a "subject" and "object" meas, as your ability to understand later concept depends on your understanding of this.
The subject refers to person/thing/nouns/ whatever that is acting. The subject does the action of the verb. For example, the subject in each sentence below is Boldeface.

I went to the park.
I will go to the park.
My mom loves me.
He loves me.
The dog ran fast.
The clouds cleared up.

In English, the subject always comes before the verb.
The object refers to whatever the verb is aching on. For example the object in each sentence below is boldface.

My mom loves me.
The dog bit the mailman.
He ate rice.
Student studied Korean.

In English, the object always comes after the verb. However, a sentence with a verb does not require an object, For example

I sleep
I ate
He died

Sometimes there is no object. For example "I ate" or "I ate rice" are both correct sentence. Other verbs, by their nature, cannot act an object. For example you cannot place an object after the verbs "sleeps" or "die".

I sleep
I die

Subjects are also present in sentences with adjectives. However, there is no object in a sentence with an adjective. The subjects are boldface in the following adjective-sentences below.

School is boring.
I am boring.
The movie was funny.
The building is big.
My girlfriend is pretty.
The food is delicious.

It is indirectly important that you understand this from the very beginning. Every Korean sentence MUST end in either a verb (like eat, sleep or walk) or an adjective (like beautiful, pretty and delicious). This rule is important that I'm going to say it again: Every Korean MUST end either a verb or adjective.

It is also important to point out here that there are two ways to say "I" and "me" in Korean. Depending on how polite you need to be speaking, many things within a sentence (mostly the conjugation) can change. You won't learn the different honorific conjugation until Lesson 6, so you don't need to worry about understanding those until then. However, before you reach those lessons, you will see two different words for "I" which are: 나, used in informal sentences, and 저, used formal sentences.

As Lesson 1-5 make no distinct or formally, you will see both 나 and 자 arbitrarily used. Don't worry about why one is used over the other until Lesson 6, when politeness will be explain.

Okay, now that you know all of that, we can talk about making Korean sentence. :)