Studying before my test

So its the end of June and I feel that I have studied level 1 very well, enough that I can remember around 250 - 300 words confidently. Starting the first of July, I will move on to level 2 and if I complete one level each month I will reach intermediate level lessons in about 9 months so I am learning quite fast. I have been studying for a Korean test for the past week. Here are the final two pieces of study evidence for level one for this week. As you can see I have learned many new phrases like "How did you find it?" and "How heavy is it?" and "When did you arrive?"

Studying

Todays studying

Busy practicing

I have a test on Saturday so I am still busy practicing my spelling and learning lots of new verbs. I use the computer app called Anki to help me learn. It is a very good memory card style programme.

Sixth Lesson - Final lesson of level 1

There are five more lesson points for the last part of level 1. There are 9 levels I must complete before I can start the intermediate lessons.

Today I have learnt how to make a negative sentence by adding 안 before a verb or making a negative verb by adding 자않다 to a verb stem and changing the conjugation

How to make verbs which use 하다 into negatives by adding the 안 before the 하다 or by changing the 하다 to 하지않다

How to use the word for who - 누구 and how to change it to 구가 when you are talking about who when that is the subject of the conversation.

Four interrogatives : How - 어떻게 and Why - 왜 and How much (money) 얼마 and How + adjective/adverb - 얼마나

Finally, how to say From A until B in time and location.

에서 and 부터 mean from but 에서 is for locations and 부터 is for time.

까지 means to or until so

location From A until B = A 에세 B 까지

Time From A until B = A 부터 B 까지

Test Day

For the past few days I have been revising lessons 1 - 20 from level 1 of the talk to me in Korean website. It has been tough learning around 200 new words and phrases and my spelling is still bad. Here is a list of the all the words and phrases that I have learned since lesson 15.

1. The native Korean numbers : 하나, 둘, 셋, 넷, 다섯,여섯, 일곱, 여덟, 아홉, 열
2. Korean age counter : 살 and how to count age up to 1000 (만)
3. How to say where :어디
4. How to say when :  언제
5. Location marking particles : at, to -에    at, from, in  - 에서
6. Some nouns for time of day:
오늘 (today) 어제 (yesterday) 내일（tomorrow) 지금 (now) 아까 (earlier) 나중에 (later)
7. I learnt lots of verbs and how to change them to past and present tense.
   Verbs:
쓰다 (To write, to use)
적다 (To write down)
일하다 (To work)
기다리다 (To wait)
자다 (To sleep)
팔다 (To sell)
쉬다 (To rest)
읽다 (To read)
놀다 (To play, hangout)
없다 (To not have, not exist)
웃다 (To laugh)
때리다 (To hit)
있다 (To have, exist)
가다 (To go)
일어나다 (To get up)
먹다 (To eat)
마시다 (To drink)
하다 (To do)
오다 (To come)
잡다 (To catch)
사다 (To buy)
이상하다 (To be strange)
보이디 (To be seen, be visible)
맛있다 (To be cool, awesome)
도차가다 (To arrive)

Fifth Lesson

Today I have decided to slow down my learning of grammar and try and fit in more time for learning new vocabulary. I made this poster to help me learn some words which I can use with the five verbs that I learnt yesterday.

Fourth Lesson

It has been a day of making lots of spelling mistakes and I think I need to practice writing in Korean more. Maybe I should buy some more workbooks...

Today I have learned some verbs, the Sino Korean numbers, how to say I want something, how to say thank you for food and how to say if food is delicious or horrible.

Numbers -

일,이,삼,사,오,육,칠,팔,구,십.....백.....천

Phrases -

1) I want to drink coffee - 커피 마시고싶어요
2) I want to eat this pizza -이피자 먹고싶어요
3) What is not delicious? - 뭐가 맛없어요?
4) That, over there is delicious - 저가맛있어요
5) I will eat well - 잘먹겠습니다
6) I have eaten well - 잘먹었습니다
7) I want to buy this - 이거사고싶어요
8) I want to eat more - 도먹고싶어요
9) I want to go - 가고싶어요
10)What do you want to drink -뭐가마사고싶어요?

Third Lesson

Today the TalkToMeInKorean website would not load for me all day so I could not learn the lessons but instead I made this sheet about how to ask for Korean food and drinks. I drew each food or drink and then coloured it all in. I think that this would be a helpful poster for learning Korean.

Second Lesson

Today I have covered Level 1, lessons 6-10 and worked through the textbook questions for those lessons. Slowly, the lessons are becoming harder. I have learnt a lot of grammar today so I can make very simple and easy sentences now. As the lessons go on, the lesson introduces more vocabulary and they expect you to remember these. Here are some examples of the sentences I can make:

1) What is it?  뭐예요?
2) It's not coffee 커피아니에요
3) What is that over there? 저거뭐예요?
4) I do not have time 시간없어요
5) Is this water? 물이에요?
6) This is not alcohol 이거술아니에요
7) I am a student 학생이에요
8) It is pizza that is expensive피자가비싸요
9) Other things are not expensive, but pizza is! 피자는비싸요
10) I have Korean friends 한국친구있어요

I am anxious for the lessons after this because they will get more difficult. Tomorrow I want to learn some numbers or vocabulary instead of difficult grammar!

First Lesson

Today, I have started learning Korean. Many people have recommended the website called Talk To Me In Korean which provides Korean lessons which are split into levels. They create downloadable worksheets for free which I have been making use of today. Today, I covered Level 1, lessons 1-5.
The phrases that I have learnt are:

1) Hello 안녕하세요
2) Thank You 감사합니다
3) Yes 네
4) No 아니요
5) Yes, That's right 네맞아요
6) I'm Sorry 죄송합니다 *Edit due to spelling mistake
7) Excuse me (To catch attention) 저기요
8) Excuse me (Just a second) 잠시만요/잠깐만요
9) Goodbye (When you are leaving and they are staying) 안녕히계세요
10) Goodbye (When They are leaving or when you all leave together) 안녕히가세요

As you can see, the website first teaches the student polite Korean - 존댓말

I also learnt how to say - is/am/are

Noun ending in consonant + 이에요
Noun ending in a vowel + 예요