[Plan] Week14: 28 Nov 2011 - At Home

Source: musthavemenus.com

Cultural tidbit of the week:- Korean kinship terms I

The vocabulary to be learnt this week:-

• Counter: item 게 ; volume 권 ; year 년 ; month 달 ; dollar 달러 ; animal 마리 ; people 명 ; Korean won 원; month 월; day 일
• Noun: family members - father, mother, older brother, older sister, younger brother, younger sister
• Number: Sino-Korean numbers and native Korean numbers
• Particle: and (with nouns) 하고
• Pre-noun: how many, what (with a counter) 몇
• Verb: to be (existence), stay 겨시다 hon. (겨세요)
• Expression:
  • 있으세요/없으세요 is the honorific form of 있어요/없어요 "to have/to not have"
  • 계세요/안 계세요 is the honorific form of 있어요/없어요 "to be/to not be (existence)"
  • 이세요/세요 is honorific form of copula 이다 "to be (equation)"

The grammer points to be digested:-

1. Alternative questions - used to ask someone to choose one from the given choices (동생이 있어요, 없어요?)
2. Sino-Korean numbers and native Korean numbers
3. Noun counters - when you count you must use different counters. Some counters take Sino-Korean numbers, and some take native numbers and others can be used with either numbers in high numbers (>= 50)
4. Word order in counting is [Noun] + [이/가 Particle] + [Number] + [Counter]
5. 몇 + [Counter] - 몇 is the question word for quantity and is almost always followed by a counter: 몇 층, 몇 살, 몇 마리, 몇 시간
6. 얼마 "how much" is used for 원 (Korean won) instead of 몇 원(how many)

Here is my study plan for the week beginning 28 Nov 2011