Talk:Korean/Lesson I3

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Some improvements: (I will come back and do them when I have time): I think it would be better to have the numbers in a table with Number, PK-translit, PK-hangul, SK-translit, SK-hangul and SK-hanja. We need to add: PK numbers 0, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90; SK numbers 0, 100, 1000, 10 000, 1 000 000, 10 000 000. Also, how to construct numbers... for PK: tens+units; for SK: (multiplier+powerOfTen)*. --Taejo 15:21, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Usage
Could it be possible for someone to write a little about when to use the native Korean system vs. the Chinese system? Any special cases etc... --213.186.251.74 20:21, 3 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I wrote a little on the usage... I hope it's useful. Actually I don't think all this should be in one lesson. Perhaps this lesson should introduce SK numerals, and money, maybe titled '이것은 얼마예요?' Native Korean numerals are more complex and should be taught a little later. Chamdarae 16:44, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

I am moving this lesson up to lesson 4, because numbers are a little more intricate than usual in korean, and I would like to introduce another concept that will help tie in with the conversations in order to learn things better. Lesson 3 will be about connective forms and particles (and, or, but) and lesson 4 will be numbers with great detail on the differences between sino-korean and korean numbering. iamgravity

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is it possible someone could elaborate on the final two sentances? i'm using google translate to figure out which vocab to take notes on and usage/tenses but it's pretty confusing, and i understand doing the hard work yourself helps you to understand things better, but... i wouldn't be using this if i wanted to do all sorts of running around on the internet and leafing through books and skimming.

also, with the "to come" verb, "오다"... simply explaining that "왔-" is a past tense conjugation of this verb would have saved 40 minutes of my life, searching internet resources and flipping through my notebook/lesson book. total curve ball. i stared at the sentence and read it twenty times going "what?! where is this word?! it's not even in the dialogue!! these people are crazy!" beginners do not know this sort of thing, so please treat us that way, we prefer it.

ex: in second last sentence, the verb "to catch" is in some strange tense. "탑니까?" is trans. as "catch?" while inputting "탑" gives me tower or pagoda... "탑다" gives me "tapda" in google trans, but it suggests "잡다" to me, which i select and it says means "to catch" ... what?? and why? none of this is explained. this lesson is causing me to ask a lot more questions than are being answered. has this project been abandoned and i just don't know..??? thats a pretty big oversight... user - knightabraxas