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Say where you are from

Have you had any luck meeting Korean people? :) Now let's learn how to say where you are from. I am Chinese. 나는 중국 사람 입니다. 나는, na-nun, I 중국, jung-guk, China 사람, sar-ram, person 입니다., im-ni-da, am 나는 중국 사람 입니다. na-nun jung-guk sa-ram im-ni-da. A few other country names are: 미국, mi-guk, America 태국, tae-guk, Thailand 베트남, bae-tu-nam, Vietnam If you have noticed that many country names in Korean ends with "국, guk", that is because the origin of the word is from Chinese meaning "country". When that word is written in simplified Chinese it looks like 国. Interesting, huh? :D See you next time!

Meet Koreans!

One way of learning a new language is having a friend who speak the language. When you see a person who looks Korean next time, why not ask if he or she is Korean? Are you Korean? 한국 사람 입니까? 한국, han-guk, Korea 사람, sa-ram, person 입니까? im-ni-ka?, are you? 한국 사람 입니까? han-guk sa-ram im-ni-ka? Replace 한국 with 일본. Then you are saying "Are you Japanese?". 일본, il-bon, Japan 영국, young-guk, England 호주, ho-chu, Australia Too advanced?! It will get easier. If you want to learn Korean characters (한글, han-gul) visit http://www.learnkorean.com/lesson/lesson2.asp . Have fun! :)