![]() The turtle was bad and ate a lot of the food.Īesop’s fable “The Tortoise and the Hare” Geobugi-neun nappasseo-yo geuri-go eumsig-eul man-i meogeosseo-yo. The dog and its friends went to the turtle’s house. The snake likes the makgeolli, however as for the duck her soup is cold. Geu-deur-eun reseutorang-e weiteo-eseo jumun hae-yo.Īt the restaurant, they order from the waiter.īaem-eun makkeolli-reul joa-yo, geureo-chiman ori-neun geu ![]() However, the duck wants to eat carrot and onion soup. ![]() Ha-jiman, ori-neun danggeun-hago yangpa supeu-reul meok-go sipeo-yo The snake wants to drink makkeolli (Korean rice wine). ssan reseutorang-e ga-go isseo-yo.Ī snake and a duck are going to an expensive restaurant for dinner.īaem-eun makkeolli-reul masi-go sipeo-yo.Their stories feature a lovely cast of Korean animals and food, as well as lots of exciting verb tenses and several challenging irregular verbs.īaem geurigo ori-neun jeo To put all of this knowledge into action, our Beginner II Korean students created, illustrated, and read a collection of original short stories (짧은 이야기 jjalb-eun iyagi). By the end of level two, students know several verb tenses, are able to recognize and use important grammatical particles, and have mastered hundreds of high-frequency vocabulary words and phrases. The first two levels in the Korean language program at LanGo focus on learning and practicing the beginner basics of the language. The third line provides the English translation. The second line shows the transliteration using Revised Romanization with dashes (-) to denote select morpheme boundaries (e.g., particles, grammatical affixes, and verb endings for the informal polite speech style) and dots ( For each story, the first line is in Korean (i.e., written in Hangeul). This post highlights the impressive final projects created by our beginner Korean students, who put together everything they’ve learned so far to produce the awesome collection of Korean short stories below. Particularly fascinating (to us as learners) is finding nuanced cultural differences in classic stories known around the world that have been translated into another language.įor these reasons, one of our favorite ways to assess learner progress at LanGo is through fun, but challenging, final projects that involve stories. They impart interesting cultural information, like storytelling styles in your target language, the types of characters that are salient, and the kinds of behaviors and values they embody, as well as common scenes and conversations that play out in daily life. Stories in any language take you to an imaginary world created by the author(s), in turn taking your mind away from the process of studying and enabling you to learn more naturally and intuitively. Once you know the beginner basics of the language, it is a very rewarding feeling to be able to draw on that knowledge to read, or even write, your own Korean short story.įinally, stories transmit cultural values and information. Learning a language through stories boosts your confidence and gives you motivation to reach the next level of study. Simple storylines give context to the vocabulary you know, while the repetition and visuals used as the story progresses make the words and phrases stick in your mind. The same goes for easy and short Korean stories. ![]() If you find that K-pop songs are earworms that help you easily remember words and expressions, it’s even harder to forget the stories, songs, and nursery rhymes that we learned as children! Bet you still remember the simple lines and catchy rhymes from the short stories that helped you learn the basics of your first language (e.g., “Goodnight Moon,” “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” “The Giving Tree,” etc.). They help you build your foundational skills in the language, and help you put together the building blocks that you need to thoroughly understand before advancing to more difficult skills and concepts. Just as they worked for learning your first language, stories are invaluable for learning another language. That’s because stories build and reinforce your language skills. Learning a language with short, easy stories is a fun and very effective way to practice what you have learned in your target language.
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