It’s time for a new Hanja episode! This time I talk about the character 最, which is read “최” and means “the most.” This character is added before other Hanja words and means “the most” of whatever it comes before. What words do you know that use this character?

I started learning Korean almost 20 years ago in 2005, and a lot has changed. In addition to culture changes, the language itself has also grown. I met up with 한국어 한 조각 and we discussed how Korean has changed over the past several decades.

There are actually TWO separate ~거든 forms. The most common (and the one you should definitely know first) is ~거든(요), which is used when explaining. The second is ~거든 (without 요), which is an advanced level form used to mean “if.” I taught both forms in my most recent live stream, and also how ~거든 is different from ~(으)면.

It’s time for another video where I react and grade YOUR Korean speaking. I asked my subscribers to send in videos of themselves speaking Korean, and reacted together with the channel “한국어 한 조각” (“A Piece of Korean”). I don’t often make these videos, but I’d like to keep doing them every so often (at least once a year).