Vocabulary
The vocabulary is separated into nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs for the purpose of simplicity.
Nouns:
한국 = Korea
Common Usages:
한국 사람 = Korean person
한국어 = Korean language (For Korean people, Korean language class is called "국어 (수업)")
한국인 = Korean person
한국 역사 = Korean history (in school, Korean history class is usually called "한국사 (수업)")
한국 문화 = Korean culture
한국 경제 = Korean economy
한국 전쟁 = the Korean War
한국주식시장 = Korean stock market
한국어능력시험 = Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK)
Notes: The formal name of the country is 대한민국
Examples
저는 7년 동안 한국에서 살았어요 = I lived in Korea for seven years
저는 내년에 한국에 갈 거예요 = I will go to Korea next year
저의 어머니는 올해 한국에 올 것입니다 = My mom will come to Korea this year
저는 한국어를 한국에서 배웠어요 = I learned Korean in Korea
고등학교는 한국에서 어려워요 = High school is difficult in Korea
그 집은 한국에서 지어졌어요 = that house was built in Korea
저는 한국에서 살고 있어요 = I live in Korea
도시 = city
이름 = name
저 = I, me (formal)
나 = I, me (informal)
남자 = man
여자 = woman
이 = this
그 = that
저 = that (when something is far away)
것 = thing
이것 = this (thing)
그것 = that (thing)
저것 = that (thing)
의자 = chair
탁자 = table
선생님 = teacher
침대 = bed
집 = house
차 = car
사람 = person
책 = book
컴퓨터 = computer
나무 = tree/wood
소파 = sofa
중국 = China
일본 = Japan
문 = door
의사 = doctor
학생 = student
Adverbs and Other words:
이다 = to be
네 = yes
아니 = no
Greeting Words
When learning a language, people always want to learn "hello," "how are you," and "thank you" before anything else. I know that. However, at this stage you only know words – and have no knowledge or experience in how to use or conjugate these words. The grammar within these words is 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
감사하다 and 고맙다 are the two words that are 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 of ways, which you won't learn until Lesson 5 and Lesson 6. I will show you a list of the more commonly used forms, but I can't stress enough that you won't understand how this works until later lessons:
