Very true. Most of my experience in Hangugo is from talking with my fiance` so it is the informal way. I need a lot of work on the more formal speaking I'm afraid.

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Do not be discouraged I still make mistakes and I started learning the language 30 years ago.

Your word for wife was a little amusing, that is until I read your fiancée was teaching you. <BG>

I usually use gyp sa rim or puin depending on the situation. OTH when I am asked by someone else who she is, I respond mooda kay say oh <Bg>

You may also want to learn Po Go Ship boy o (Miss you) It usually earns extra points :-)

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Hey Superman! MIKE ASKED ME ABOUT YOU. I figured you went off your diet and got stuck in a phone booth. Be back in Sept, eh? We missed you. You know I saw you a while back, and I think you let your wife drive the jeep one day. If you do that, she will want to do it again and again. Be careful.

Yeah, we've had some inputs in the phrases! All are usable, I haven't attempted to tweak pronunciation, as I was hoping you would appear and do that for me. Willie is super on that, also. I think the guys are doing great with the Romanization, considering some can't read Hangul! I'm proud to be a member of a forum where we all work together, and no one tries to be a know-it-all and criticize everyone else all the time. We are a consensus of gentlemen and ladies whose goal is to cooperate and graduate. I like that a lot. If I knew half as much Korean as you, I couldn't stand myself! Hurry back.
I've gotten to know BigBear recently, and have been doing some work for him in Korea, as he is temporarily out of town. It looks like his girl has been teaching him some good words! I know he is reading some words, as he translated some himself to send to me! Keep the faith BigBear!

modaradurossoyo............I don't understand

ch'um ch'ushillaeyo.......Do you want to dance???


sajuseyo.......................................... .Please buy it for me

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When you hear the Music, Join in the Dance...

I finally unpacked another box from my last stint in the ROK and found the book I had talked about in previous posts. It is a 3x5 size paper back and it was probably the best and most useful Korean language book I had over all my tours there. It is: BARRON'S Korean at a Glance. You'll find just about all the phrases people have offered up in this thread and everything else you need to know to get you started.

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BARRON"S Korean at a Glance is an excellent book! I recently bought one at the PX to send to my daughter. It says copyright 1988. $8.95. I don't know of a newer book that would serve any better. It includes Korean and English characters and excellent pronunciation guides for non-Hangul readers.

It does lack many new words and phrases used today by the younger generation, and like our kids in America, they have their own vocabulary. A North Korean coming South today would have a hard time understanding some things. They resist incorporating English words into Chosun Mal. (Their word for Hanguk Mal.) If anyone has seen a recent book that includes the present colloquial and modern words, please let us know! Willie and Eddie V-9 and others may be able to furnish us with a list in the meantime. 1988 was a long time ago to some folks!
North Koreans might think "PC Bang" is an exploding device, instead of a Personal Computer Room, where folks can access the internet for a small fee.
Norae Bang is literally "Music Room" but I am told it is a place where anyone wishing to be in a "Private" room setting with a friend or friends, can enjoy music or view videos while sitting on a naugahide couch for about 20 bucks an hour. Someone who knows- please tell us- is it similar to what happend in the 50's in a car at a drive in movie? I think so!
(the time is actually 0814 NOT what it says above, left.)

Mine is a 1988 also, got it at the BX in 92. I had a few other books but this one was the best to carry around.

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See sig. lol Unfortunately I am all too familiar with that phrase. Never more so than now.

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Joe is correct in the change in vocabulary. When we returned in 01 after being out of the country for a long time my wife (Korean) was unable to identify with some of the words. As I reminded her it as not to different from the kids in the states.

In my younger years the phrase to bomb out was to fail. When my son came home from high school one day he told us at the dinner table the word going around school was his mother was the bomb. She had a clothing store where she sold prom, wedding dress and rented tuxedos. It was a little disappointing knowing how hard she worked to establish the business. He was quick to explain what it meant and he had several girls calling
Case in point: Do not get too wrapped up in the colloquially verbaige, stay with the primary language.

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Since I am about 85% certain that I no longer have a fiance` waiting for me, can anyone tell me how easy it is to find classes on learning Hangugo in Korea? I am still going back to live in Korea and I still want to speak as well as I can. I wasn't too concerned about rushing it before, so I never looked, but now I will be on my own it seems. I have been using Rosetta Stone with limited success, so I do have a base knowledge at least. Are Korean language classes fairly common to come by?

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