Korean~~~

Today is the start of the second half of my 30-day challenge, as what I said before, I am going to learn a new language beside English, French, and Mandarin. It is my pleasure to tell you we are going to learn Korean! As we all know that Korean are the second large population we have of the international students in Cheshire Academy. However, people in the world seems like not having a big favor of learning Korean. For me, I always think that Korean is a really interesting language, because how the words they form are similar to Mandarin. Meanwhile, it have totally different root compare to Mandarin, that is why I am so interested about learning Korean for my 30-day challenge!

Before we start the lesson today, I need to briefly talk about the grammar rule in Korean. For the characters of Korean, it is base on different kind of roots. This mean if you know how to read each roots in Korean, probably 99% of the words in Korean you will able to pronounce it. For the grammar it is basically same as Mandarin and English did, which is a subject, verb, and agreement. We can understand Korean as another type of English but with different format of vocabulary and character.

However, there is one special grammar rule we should notice about before we start to learn Korean. In their society, there must verify each other into different level. Such as the people who are older than you and people who are younger than you. Facing different level groups of people will need to say in different kind of way. Obviously we need to speak in polite way when we are talking to our elder, and for those people who are younger than us we can just say in normal way. (Didn't required to add polite way). The way how they verify each other in level are also interesting, we will usually think older age people will be the elder and younger age will be the normal one. From the information I got from my Korean friend, he said that in this school we don’t verify each other in age but in grade. This mean even though I am younger than you, but as long I am junior and you are a 10th grade, you still need to add polite word when you talk to me, which is only happen in our school.

Due to the time we have I think we are not going to learn some useful Korean sentences today, but at least we got to know some interesting facts about the Korean society and how it is work. If you are not a big fan of Korean, I will suggest you to stop that kind of thought and try to make yourself love it. For those who would like to learn Korean, I believe we will have a really good time together, because I’m not only to teach you some useful sentences in the daily life, but also some sentences that you will heard very often when you watch Korean show!