Most difficult: At first it's the pronunciation. Then it's the grammar. And ultimately it ends up being the vocabulary, because Korean just has soooo many words. All the words.
The first woman nailed it. Even though 은/는 and 이/가 are one of the first things you get taught they are still easily the hardest thing for me to conceptually understand. I have been studying regularly for years and i still feel like I only understand it marginally better than when I was a young korean learning warthog.
As someone 100% hitting the intermediate wall these videos are great. I can actually understand most of what they're saying and only have to look up a word or two and it helps with the self confidence a lot haha. Great work Billy keep it up!
I'm studying right now with your beginner lessons and I'm at lesson #55. I'm following through slower these days because I keep forgetting some rules but it's still very informative and easy to follow. 감사합니다 선생님!
I also think that Hangeul is the easiest. The hardest I find the sentence structure. Longer the sentence worse it gets LOL mostly as soon as one starts connecting sentences and there are negative verbs and such. I know one cannot translate directly but when I see what I wrote in Korean and what the English translation is, I am buffled by where the heck are all those words I see in English in that Korean sentence? Or at least some? It is the beauty of learning a new language and becoming a new person along, but gosh it can be frustrating.
For me, memorization is the most difficult part. I think it is more difficult because I am not emersed. I wish I could study abroad! I speak English natively and I think it is hard too! The easiest part of learning Korean for me was definitely the alphabet and forming syllables. It is very intuitive. Now if I could just improve my pronunciation.... PS. Thank you for all your help learning Korean Billy!
For me the most difficult part is listening because it goes so fast and things sound similar. So if I hear 그만 I might think "Stop it!" Instead of 90,000.
Looking back I think that Hangeul was the easiest part of learning Korean for me and it was really fun! Its all uphill after that 😅. Honestly its surprising how quickly you can learn to read and write the alphabet. But it took longer than 10 days so King Sejong would have been very disappointed in me 🤣
As a learner of the language, the difficult part is the topic and subject marking particles, then there comes when to use the negatives in sentence construction, making matters worse, the pronunciation, then sentence condtruction when reading and writing plus translating back to english. I personally apply various strategies when learning the language but some parts I get totally stuck. But I will get there.
For me, most difficult it's 발음 pronunciation, pronunciation changing rules and 문법 korean grammar specially when you're at intermediate level it's more complicated
I'd say the word order (in combination with homonyms and long, fast-spoken sentences) is kind of the hardest part. That's so fundamentally hard-wired in the brain that nobody even thought about it.
Easiest: the alphabet, and the fact nouns don't have gender / verbs don't have different endings for different person (e.g. he "says" vs you "say") Hardest for me is vocabulary and all the nuances around when you can and can't use particular grammar forms. The most fun part for me is sentence structure. Maybe I am a masochist lol. But I love to compare how different languages express things. Korean seems a very elegant language overall, compared to eg European languages with every noun having a gender, Chinese with 20k characters in their "alphabet" and Japanese with 3 alphabets. 한국어 배우기 재미있어요!
Imo, the easiest is definitely 한글. Personally, the hardest for me is grammar maybe? I can just pick up vocab from the contents i watch and while learning it. Second hardest is pronounciation and spelling (happen to me for english too)
For me, it took a while to understand the uses of 거예요 and 거야. I think 한글 was the easiest to learn. Vocab is also tough, but I’ve been studying just over a year and am amazed at how many words I can remember!
Easiest: Hangul! It was the easiest part for sure, I think it took me a month or two to get it down. Hardest: Subject markers... I think i dismissed it as something simple at first and didn't pay much attention to if I was using them correctly- it's been 3 years and I still get confused with them sometimes 🤷♀️
So I'm only 2 months into learning but so far the thing I'm the most nervous about is being impolite or improper because of politness differences...Hangul is really easy so that's been the easiest thus far!!
Conjugation for sure. I’m actually learning sentences & words but I know I have a long way to go before I could ever try to have a conversation. I work so I can’t devote 6-8 hours a day to study. I want to learn & know more quickly, so I try not to get discouraged. I look back on when I first started & think, well I’m not doing too bad. 😂Maybe I’ll get better in 10 years…😂
It’s interesting because I have always been pretty decent at Japanese pronunciation but Korean just throws me off sometimes with how certain words are written and spoken
oh 쓰는 거랑. i knew that you could end a sentence with the 고 ending, but din't know you could also do that with the (이)랑 "with" one. what does it means when using in that way? a soft "and" like the soft 고 "but"?
Most difficult: At first it's the pronunciation. Then it's the grammar. And ultimately it ends up being the vocabulary, because Korean just has soooo many words. All the words.
Ditto.
You're correct😭
please, i can vouch for the veracity of this. 🥹
totally agree
The first woman nailed it. Even though 은/는 and 이/가 are one of the first things you get taught they are still easily the hardest thing for me to conceptually understand. I have been studying regularly for years and i still feel like I only understand it marginally better than when I was a young korean learning warthog.
As someone 100% hitting the intermediate wall these videos are great. I can actually understand most of what they're saying and only have to look up a word or two and it helps with the self confidence a lot haha. Great work Billy keep it up!
I'm studying right now with your beginner lessons and I'm at lesson #55. I'm following through slower these days because I keep forgetting some rules but it's still very informative and easy to follow. 감사합니다 선생님!
I also think that Hangeul is the easiest. The hardest I find the sentence structure. Longer the sentence worse it gets LOL mostly as soon as one starts connecting sentences and there are negative verbs and such. I know one cannot translate directly but when I see what I wrote in Korean and what the English translation is, I am buffled by where the heck are all those words I see in English in that Korean sentence? Or at least some? It is the beauty of learning a new language and becoming a new person along, but gosh it can be frustrating.
For me, memorization is the most difficult part. I think it is more difficult because I am not emersed. I wish I could study abroad! I speak English natively and I think it is hard too! The easiest part of learning Korean for me was definitely the alphabet and forming syllables. It is very intuitive. Now if I could just improve my pronunciation....
PS. Thank you for all your help learning Korean Billy!
For me the most difficult part is listening because it goes so fast and things sound similar. So if I hear 그만 I might think "Stop it!" Instead of 90,000.
Looking back I think that Hangeul was the easiest part of learning Korean for me and it was really fun! Its all uphill after that 😅. Honestly its surprising how quickly you can learn to read and write the alphabet. But it took longer than 10 days so King Sejong would have been very disappointed in me 🤣
Hardest is definitely formality levels for me
As a learner of the language, the difficult part is the topic and subject marking particles, then there comes when to use the negatives in sentence construction, making matters worse, the pronunciation, then sentence condtruction when reading and writing plus translating back to english. I personally apply various strategies when learning the language but some parts I get totally stuck. But I will get there.
For me learning Hangul it is the easiest part and the hardest part probably speaking and expressing naturally (not like a korean but like yourself)
For me, most difficult it's 발음 pronunciation, pronunciation changing rules and 문법 korean grammar specially when you're at intermediate level it's more complicated
My weakness would be conjugations. This trips me up when constructing sentences.
I'd say the word order (in combination with homonyms and long, fast-spoken sentences) is kind of the hardest part. That's so fundamentally hard-wired in the brain that nobody even thought about it.
약 간 is like the demon with thousand faces but meaning instead😂
Easiest: the alphabet, and the fact nouns don't have gender / verbs don't have different endings for different person (e.g. he "says" vs you "say")
Hardest for me is vocabulary and all the nuances around when you can and can't use particular grammar forms.
The most fun part for me is sentence structure. Maybe I am a masochist lol. But I love to compare how different languages express things.
Korean seems a very elegant language overall, compared to eg European languages with every noun having a gender, Chinese with 20k characters in their "alphabet" and Japanese with 3 alphabets. 한국어 배우기 재미있어요!
Imo, the easiest is definitely 한글. Personally, the hardest for me is grammar maybe? I can just pick up vocab from the contents i watch and while learning it. Second hardest is pronounciation and spelling (happen to me for english too)
For me, it took a while to understand the uses of 거예요 and 거야. I think 한글 was the easiest to learn. Vocab is also tough, but I’ve been studying just over a year and am amazed at how many words I can remember!
Easiest: Hangul! It was the easiest part for sure, I think it took me a month or two to get it down.
Hardest: Subject markers... I think i dismissed it as something simple at first and didn't pay much attention to if I was using them correctly- it's been 3 years and I still get confused with them sometimes 🤷♀️
So I'm only 2 months into learning but so far the thing I'm the most nervous about is being impolite or improper because of politness differences...Hangul is really easy so that's been the easiest thus far!!
Easiest thing is to learn hangul korean alphabet that's easy and writing
I agree with the swear words that's the only thing I feel confident in right now 😂
Conjugation for sure. I’m actually learning sentences & words but I know I have a long way to go before I could ever try to have a conversation. I work so I can’t devote 6-8 hours a day to study. I want to learn & know more quickly, so I try not to get discouraged. I look back on when I first started & think, well I’m not doing too bad. 😂Maybe I’ll get better in 10 years…😂
Hangul is definitely the easiest part of learning Korean. The hardest part... everything else!
Are these videos getting easier, or am i able to understand more than the last one in this series? Id
Ike to think the second one haha, Cool
저한데 한국어를 공부할 때 단어 가장 어렵다고 생각해요.
It’s interesting because I have always been pretty decent at Japanese pronunciation but Korean just throws me off sometimes with how certain words are written and spoken
한국어 사용자와 대화할 기회가 많지 않아서 언어 교환 회의나 앱에서 대화하는 것이 조금 어렵습니다. 혼자 쓰고 읽을 수 있어서 익숙하지만 그들이 비교할때 제 말하기 실력이 조금 부족한 것 같아요 . 영상을 재미있게 봤어요 , 고마워요 !!
oh 쓰는 거랑.
i knew that you could end a sentence with the 고 ending, but din't know you could also do that with the (이)랑 "with" one. what does it means when using in that way? a soft "and" like the soft 고 "but"?
Swear words, the type of words that is good to know (in case you see it and for know what it means) but bad to use
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