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An incredibly easy to hear verb ending, this one was hard for me to pick up at first because it sounded so close to the ~찮아 in 괜찮아. So, at f...

I really Schruted this one at first. Since I hear it from kids a lot (and my wife when she talks in a cute way) I thought it was a way of m...

If you want to say something that is very likely to happen, use ~어/아야겠어요. How it differs from the rest (forgive the non-exact translations):...

"Do you know about something" or "do you know how to do something" has already been covered with ㄴ/는지 알아? but this one ...

To ask if someone knows about something or how to do something in general, use ~(으)ㄴ/는지 알아요? or ~(으)ㄴ/는지 몰라요? I would advise you to use this...

fresh off the heels of just getting comfortable with ~는 대로 I come to find out that it it isn't all that common. In fact, there's a ...

To ask permission, use this lovely little guy <동사> + 도 되다 If unsure when to use 되 or 돼 check what I wrote and it might help  ^^ Exam...

When you guess something and you're really sure about it, you use ~테니까. It conveys a slightly different feeling than 인니까 as they both ex...

Stay with me because this one is a bit tricky. As you know, ~어/아서 is a connection to show order with reason. "Because A happened, B ...

Another reason my teacher is awesome is that she'll answer just about any question I have regardless of how trivial or basic it may seem...

When you want to press pause in your Korean, use 다가. A similar connector "~면서" means "at the same time" while "~다...

To wish for something in English carries a few meanings. it could mean "What did you wish for?" "무슨 소원을 빌었어요?". However,...

I like this grammar point and kind of wish English had something similar. <동사>는 길 is the equivalent of "On my way to I'll ...

Ask me why I mix these two up? I have no clue. They have virtually nothing to do with each other besides sharing similar pronunciation. I fe...

Picking right up after the last grammar point about order comes one that I find helpful. If you want to express a sequence of events that i...

Update: part two of my thoughts on this one. part one . I get flustered trying to do the whole sequencing thing in Korean. Like all good s...

Korean is a fascinating language. There's even a great way, in Korean, to confirm that you didn't hear what someone just said. Furth...

NOTE: This should have been posted a month ago but got lost in the pile of drafts. It's still pretty rough as "역시" is a strang...

I love using Korean kinship titles. I really do. 호칭 좋아해. I wrote about them a while back. When I hear 오빠 I melt. When I hear 형 I feel clo...

Thus begins the first of a series of simple grammar points that intermediate speakers should already know but for some reason still are not ...