[Ask Hyunwoo] Biggest mistake people often make when speaking Korean?

[TechnoDude147]

hey I have a wierd question for you: what would happen If I call a Korean Chinese or Japanese and viceverse a Chinese Korean or Japanese,Japanese Chinese Korean? sorry for the mess :) by the way... are you North Korean or South Korean (I'm Not racist ok?)

[misasoupu]

Helpful! I'm glad that I understand the don't-mix-adjectives-and-verbs thing. :D

And LOL at "I am boring"! But I've heard a lot of English-learners say that, so it's not a big deal :)

[WooyoungBias]

Hi, if "nae" is formal for "yes", what is the informal?

[erini06]

@WooyoungBias informal would be 응 "eung" or 어 "eo/uh"

In my experience, people use 응 more when they write, but when they speak, sounds like 어. I'm not a native speaker, though. :)

[nicollebub]

@WooyoungBias i dont understand korean, but i watch a looot of korean stuff, but i know that yes can be also "de"

ex: are u great?

- de.

hm, understood?

[shineeportal]

@nicollebub Well, it's actually "nae" but can sometimes sound like "dae".

[VVAANNEE101]

@WooyoungBias yae

[shatteringglass100]

YOU ARE SO HOT

[shineeportal]

@shatteringglass100 I thought I was the only one who thought that. :D

[27jpablo27]

hola, ojala pudieran hacer los mismos vídeos pero en español. por favor

hi, plis could you do this kind of videos but in spanish . plese"""""""""""""

[TheSarajka84]

poor me..will i ever learn Korean :(

[irislyfe]

le truc à propos "i am boring" m'a vraiment fait rire ;) . merci pour le fait de partager ces choses avec nous:)

[kpopgrrl]

I'm glad I don't make the adjective mistake. My pronunciation is also pretty good (I have a talent for accents). I need to work on listening comprehension and increasing my vocabulary.

[1004cheonsa]

I agree, my pronunciation is terrible.

[Elina88x]

Thanks this was very helpful!! :)

I love your website I've learned so much in such a short time and keep practicing~ :D

btw you're very handsome ^_^

[marielgata15]

Thanks!

[MBLAQandAnimals]

Then if 네 is formal, can I ask, what is 네 in informal language? Thank you.

[misanthropikbunny]

@MBLAQandAnimals I believe it is 응

[MBLAQandAnimals]

@misanthropikbunny Ohh...I see! Thank you! :)

[sarahxxkristine]

고맙다잉!!! :) ㅎㅎ 영어로 잘하네요! 내가 언젠가 청산유수로 한국어로 말하구 시퍼잉! 얼씨미 공부를 하지 않으면 안돼옄ㅋㅋ

[TheMoori92]

korean grammair is so so diffrent from english .... i m really confused , it s almost 5 months i m studying Hangul very hard ... my San seng nim told me my accent is funny , because i m Iranian and my language is so so diffrent =))))))

[ianpolitano07]

When I've spoken with many Koreans, I've noticed there's often some confusion between bored/boring fun/funny and I don't know how many times I heard: Ian, these days I'm so boring. I think that the hardest part about speaking Korean, remembering to speak with 존댓말, sometimes I forget. But it's ok usually they can understand that I'm learning and a foreigner. I think the hardest part is using the right expressions. When I write, sometimes Koreans have told me the sentences or expressions are weird

[IvyCandanedo]

Pretty flower... That's the example my teacher used to explain descriptive verbs to us in korean class lol

[GenLiu]

@IvyCandanedo Strangely, this is also the example I picked when a friend of mine asked me to say just one thing in French to the kids I saw when I have been to a kindergarden in DaeJeon. It doesn't matter which language you talk, the pretty flower looks to be our brain favorite. lolol

[mohsine1080]

I'm a beginner. And I already knew about descriptive verbs, it's so easy, you just have to WANT to learn korean. 연습할수록 잘하겠어요.

[thedeppfan]

thanks a lot for making this video. i was confusing that too. thanks hyunwoosshi.

[bnz99]

Great video. You could even understand the pointers with little Korean knowledge. Well done!

[saraur2cute]

Hyunwoo soenbeanim...please teach me how to sound as perfect in Korean as you do in English...you're awesome by the way :)

[saraur2cute]

@GrovesSan what does that mean?

[caldevera]

@GrovesSan that's really offensive of you, you know. saraur2cute didn't even have any grammatical errors or spelling errors. and even if he/she did, there's not need to bash them.

[myobsessionsp06]

Ooh~ Answers to these kinds of questions are really helpful. Especially while I'm still a beginner :)

[caldevera]

i hear a lot of people use 난/내가 while ending the sentence in 요. is that also wrong?

[c0rse]

@caldevera Yeah, although it's not a huge deal.

[MissJoy16]

@caldevera I'm not Korean, but I've attended college there for 2 years, and from what I can tell, whether it's technically 'wrong' or not doesn't stop it from being used a lot. I think it's really common when there's two opposite parts of the social hierarchy working at once, for ex. a taxi driver speaking to a young customer (s/he has to use formal language because the business situation and because they're strangers, but can use a 'lower' form of formality since I'm so much younger).

[MissJoy16]

@caldevera It might also be used when two people are a couple years apart in age and not close enough yet to fully switch to banmal, but still kind of close so they lower their formality a little. It's so complicated ><

[nicksponge]

this is great! thanks :D i can relate to the formality levels thing. i sometimes mix them accidentally, but more often it's a question of what level to use when talking to people. maybe i'll ask it and hope it gets rated up ^.^

[iamMAi1524]

@ever4one I AGREE that these two are the most common mistakes we often do in speaking Korean. ^_^

[runnenarun]

That Was perfect. As always  . Thank you

[durkeeinkorea]

Ughhh, online dictionaries are near useless I find. Awesome video. I've started to get a little more serious about learning the language. I gotta get down on some TTMIK

[DBak91]

awesome! i really like these kinds of videos

[macy200]

Thank you Hyunwoo, this was very helpful.

좋은 비디오 예요.

[sweethome73]

cool... I like this... is really interestaing ...and helpful. Thnskd Hyunwoo... I have many question...jejejjejee.... Good Job---

[EmeraldStarsss]

this was really helpful!!

[YangJettYung]

I really enjoyed this. Thank You=)

[ChaseShining]

NIce video!! Very informative!! : D