일기

[china_shop]

일기를 쓰기 다시 시작하고 싶다. 그러니까...

연중 이맘대는 하루들이 너무 빨리 지난다. 저는 몇시 전부터 일어난 것 같지만 벌써 저녁이 온다.

오늘 아침엔 온라인으로 메타 대화하고 역시도 설거지했다. 수건 빨레도 했다. 자전거를 타고 나가서 장미 정원에 있는 카페에서 남친을 만났다. 우리가 햇빛 속에서 같이 앉고 초콜맃 케잌 좀 포함한 점심을 맛있게 먹었다. 한드폰으로 퀴즈를 좀 하고 한국어로 어린왕자를 좀 읽었다. 좋았다.

후에 집에 돌아와서 운동했다. 갈수록 무릎은 조금 나안 것 같다. 그 다음에 빨리 샤워하고 남친이 밥을 만들으면서 내가 한국인 친구를 Zoom으로 만나서 언어 교환했다.

다 좋았지만 너무 빨리 지났다. 주말은 벌써 거의 끝났다. ㅠㅠ

아, 우리가 하는 중인 직서 퍼즐은 프랑스 정원 그림이다. 포도가 많다. ㅎㅎㅎ

Comments

[china_shop]

빠르다 or 바라다? :-)

(When I was taking classes, we learned V/A(으)면 좋겠어요 for wishes and hopes, but I see people using V/A기 바라다 a fair bit, too. :-)

/sorry if I'm overstepping! feel free to ignore! <3

[anotherslashfan]

바라다. Somehow I mistyped ;)

When I googled the +기 version, I saw it used with the ㄹ ending; as in +길 바라다. But maybe the ㄹ is optional depending on the level of formality?

[china_shop]

Possibly tl;dr, but:

The ㄹ is a contraction of 를. V+기 forms a noun, and 바라다 acts on the noun, so you can say V기를 바라요, V길 바라요 or V기 바라요 and they all mean the same thing with different levels of contraction. :-)

(I had to google this in case the ㄹ was a future tense thing, but it's an object marker here. Today I learned! :-)

[anotherslashfan]

Thank you! I'm only starting to learn Korean grammar in any structured way; before, I basically came up with my own explanations while studying via Duolingo.

[china_shop]

You're welcome! (FWIW, my method is just to google "Korean grammar" plus whatever the Hangeul is. There's a lot of really great resources out there. But picking it up as you go is also a completely valid approach! I just really enjoy grammar. :-)

[anotherslashfan]

I actually really love grammar! It's just that I never put aside the time before, plus I had a hard time figuring out where to start. My approach has had the surprising benefit of giving me a more intuitive understanding of sentence structure; but actually producing sentences myself is very daunting, still.

Since German as a language has a lot of similarities to parts of the Korean grammar (especially with forming tenses, irregular verbs, verb stems+endings as conjugation, plus endings for adjectives etc., objects/subjects being slightly different (though not because of particles but instead via declination)), I generally find that part intriguing but not off-putting.

[china_shop]

plus I had a hard time figuring out where to start.

Does Bangtang Academy have grammar courses? (If not, do you want other suggestions, or should I sit on my hands? *g*)

Since German as a language has a lot of similarities to parts of the Korean grammar (especially with forming tenses, irregular verbs, verb stems+endings as conjugation, plus endings for adjectives etc., objects/subjects being slightly different (though not because of particles but instead via declination)), I generally find that part intriguing but not off-putting.

Oh, that's cool! I'd only studied Romance languages before Korean, so it was all very new to me (and I was very grateful for the lack of gendered nouns *g*).

[anotherslashfan]

Yes, BA does have grammar courses, too! I'm probably going to pick one up in a couple of months. Right now I'm focusing on the basics. I don't think I mentioned it here, but for some reason I tested beginner level 2B when I took the Sejong Institute test. But that only tests for grammar/vocab and listening ability. I haven't had a lot of speaking or writing practice, so right now I'm focusing on learning to express myself in simple sentences.

[china_shop]

화이팅!

여기에서 연습하고 싶으면 해 보세요! 실수해도 정말 괜찮아요. ^^ (I'm happy to give suggestions to the best of my ability or not, whichever you prefer. Just let me know.)

[anotherslashfan]

Suggest away when something comes to mind ;) but no need to go out of your way, either.

[anotherslashfan]

Ah, and regarding grammar: I studied Latin and Classic Greek in high school, and then of course a little Classic Chinese to go with Mandarin in university. So sentence archeology is kind of ingrained at this point? Not to any degree of actual linguistic ability, though.

[china_shop]

That's really cool -- so much variety and so many writing systems. :D

[anotherslashfan]

Can't say that I've retained much of what I learned, sadly... But my Chinese skills are still servicable.