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20 Essential Korean Phrases For Beginners

Target level

TTMIK Levels 1-2

What can you achieve through this course?

  • Practice speaking while listening and repeating after Kyung-hwa
  • Learn 20 useful phrases with accurate pronunciation

Sample lesson

 

Lecturers

Cassie
Kyung-hwa
Jooyeon

Course language

Korean, English

What can you find inside the course?

  • 20 lessons
  • Lesson notes containing extra example sentences along with English translation, and explanations about grammar points and differences in usages from similar Korean expressions

Table of contents

  1. ์•ˆ๋…•. / ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. Hello.
  2. ์•ˆ๋…•ํžˆ ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”. / ์•ˆ๋…•ํžˆ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”. Bye.
  3. ์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. / ์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Keep up the good work.
  4. ๋ญ ํ•ด? / ๋ญ ํ•˜์„ธ์š”? What are you doing?
  5. ๋ฐฐ๊ณ ํŒŒ. / ๋ฐฐ๊ณ ํŒŒ์š”. I'm hungry.
  6. ๋ญ ๋จน์„๊นŒ? / ๋ญ ๋จน์„๊นŒ์š”? What should we eat?
  7. ์ž˜ ๋จน๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Thank you for the meal.
  8. ์ž˜ ๋จน์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Thank you for the meal.
  9. ์—ฌ๋ณด์„ธ์š”? Hello. (on the phone)
  10. ์ง„์งœ? / ์ง„์งœ์š”? Really?
  11. ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜์ง€. / ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜์ฃ . Of course.
  12. ๋Œ€๋ฐ•! Awesome! / Oh, my god!
  13. ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ด. / ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. I'm sorry.
  14. ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์–ด? / ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์„ธ์š”? Do you have time?
  15. ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”? How much is it?
  16. ์ €๊ธฐ์š”! Hey! Excuse me!
  17. ์ด๊ฑฐ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. This one, please.
  18. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋‚ ์”จ ์ง„์งœ ์ข‹๋‹ค. / ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋‚ ์”จ ์ง„์งœ ์ข‹๋„ค์š”. The weather is really good, today.
  19. ์ข‹์•„! / ์ข‹์•„์š”! Good! Cool!
  20. ๋‚ด์ผ ๋ด. / ๋‚ด์ผ ๋ดฌ์š”. I will see you tomorrow.

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Reviews

  1. Marta Robles Diaz,

    I have enjoyed this course because I like to learn common phrases that can be said in everyday contexts such as in restaurants, stores, with friends. These are the places where if you start speaking a few phrases in Korean you feel like you are making progress and become much more motivated.

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      Thank you for your review!๐Ÿฅฐ

  2. Larissa Oakley,

    ๋Œ€๋ฐ•์ด๋‹ค~ ๋‹ค ์•Œ์•„์š”! ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํ–‰๋ณตํ•ด์š”^^ ์ €๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํŒ” ๋‹ฌ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‚ด์•˜์–ด์š”. TTMIK ๋งŽ์ด ๋„์™€์คฌ์–ด์š”.์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ด์š” ๐Ÿ˜Š

    • ์œ ์Šน์™„,

      ์šฐ์™€! ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•ด์š”^^ TTMIK๊ณผ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ด์š”๐Ÿ˜„ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ฝ”์Šค๋„ ์žฌ๋ฐŒ๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜์„ธ์š”!

  3. sama eskandari,

    Very helpful to review. Thank you TTMIK.

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๐Ÿ™‚

  4. Miss A.J,

    This is amazing, thank u so much.
    By the way, Do you have a course about topic and subject markers? Would be trully helpfull.

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      Regarding the topic and subject markers, we recommend purchasing our Korean Grammar Textbooks and taking our Essential Courses!

  5. Carmen J Cardenas,

    Amazing! Step by step! Speaking aloud! Congratulations TTMIK team!

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      Thank you!

  6. Jas Y,

    This was fun! i liked how it was broken down into small chunks. It made learning feel easy and complemented well to other courses ๐Ÿ™‚
    Thank you!!

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      You are welcome! Enjoy studying Korean with us. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

  7. Ian Paul B. Saligumba,

    I fully understood this course because it is simple. How I wish learning Korean is simple like this course ๐Ÿ˜…

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      That’s amazing!
      ๐Ÿ™‚ Thank you for studying Korean with us.

  8. Tay,

    I attended language courses in Korea but they didnโ€™t teach us quite a lot of these essential words and phrases, so thank you so much! This is really helpful and handy! Iโ€™ve got a question though, can ์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜์„ธ์š” be used when leaving a convenience store or itโ€™s better to use something else as a goodbye?

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      Thank you for your nice words!
      Your example is a perfect occasion where you can use ์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. It is fine to say that. ๐Ÿ™‚

  9. Greg Foy,

    Thankyou for this very practical course. It was very helpful and it reinforced many of the phrases I learned in the Essential Level 1 course.

    Just one thing. Many of the lessons had this underneath

    “You can watch the full video where all the phrases are introduced by clicking on the link here: https://talktomeinkorean.com/pages/20essentialphrases ”

    However the link leads to page not found. Where will I be able to find this video? Thankyou

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      Thank you for your feedback!
      We apologize for the confusion. The link leads to this course, and you have watched the full video here. ๐Ÿ™‚

    • Celina,

      The full video is on YouTube.

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      Could you send the video you referred to? ๐Ÿ™‚ Thank you for studying with us!

    • Greg Foy,

      No worries. For example, at the end of the text in lessons 8 through to lesson 20 it says:

      “You can watch the full video where all the phrases are introduced by clicking on the link here: https://talktomeinkorean.com/pages/20essentialphrases ”

      But when I click on the link there isn’t a full video where all the phrases are introduced. Instead, it says:
      “This road is blocked. Our search bar below will help you find the way!”

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      Please send us an email by clicking on the “Questions?” button. We are happy to help!

  10. karleen ellis,

    This is a great course, after doing level 1 i was worried i wasn’t retaining anything but this course affirmed that i am learning. Thank you!!

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      Many thanks ๐Ÿ™‚ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๊ณต๋ถ€ ํ™”์ดํŒ… !

  11. Bridget,

    Great course, I really liked that they presented both the casual and formal versions of phrases since beginners need to be aware of the differences and might not know how to alter the formality level themselves yet. I also appreciate the short videos that presented visuals and listen and repeat exercises. Great course for low beginners.

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      Thank you so much for your comment ! Hope you continue to enjoy learning Korean with us ๐Ÿ™‚

  12. Tan Sally,

    Can you pls tell me how to pronounce What are you eating? And what are you drinking? In Korean..

    • Ana Paula Siqueira,

      Iโ€™m just a fellow student, but I think I can help you.
      What are you eating? – ๋ญ ๋จน์–ด์š”?
      What are you drinking? – ๋ญ ๋งˆ์…”์š”?

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      Thank you for the kind help! ๐Ÿ™‚