Hyunwoo (from TTMIK) and I watched some of my old Korean speaking videos together. While many of these I know (such as one of my oldest videos from 2008), many of the others I was watching for the very first time. We critiqued how I sounded, and how I improved (or got worse?) over the years. You can clearly hear differences in how I'm speaking Korean between each year. We analyzed clips from 2008 and 2010, a few years between, and then yearly from 2016 until 2021.

Temple History

A common particle is 네 - I'm not talking about "Yes," but the particle 네. This particle is used in a similar way as 의, but has a unique meaning. It's used after nouns to mean that someone or something is a part of a group or organization.

In this video I'll compare it to 의, and show how you can use it in your sentences.

Keykat got so many fan letters this past year. It would be rude not to send an autograph in reply, right? But I don't think she has enough time to send that many autographs before the letter carrier comes.

This lesson covers the Advanced Level grammar form (은/는)커녕, along with 기는커녕. This form is used to emphasize that because one thing will probably not happen, something else definitely won’t happen either.

The grammar forms ~ㄹ지언정 and ~ㄹ망정 both mean "even though" or "even if," but also have a second usage that can mean something opposite happens from what you expected.

In the full live stream we gave more explanation of these forms, including comparing them to a few other forms, but in this abridged version you can learn all of the essential information in just under 12 minutes.