「KoreanClass101➌」Daily Conversation: Lower Intermediate Korean

#1 Can You Eat Out Tonight?
Learn about an intentional sentence ending used with action verbs and the verb of existence
20 Minutes • Audio

#2 I Think I Will
Learn how to express your thought or assumption about future plans when you are not 100% sure
16 Minutes • Audio

#3 I Was Going To Do It Anyway
Learn how to refer to whatever has happened or has been mentioned previously
22 Minutes • Audio

#4 I Do Like You But...
Learn how to show contrast between two actions or states, or two contrary characteristics of a single action or state
17 Minutes • Audio

#5 I Study Korean As Soon As I Get Up
Learn how to express "as soon as"
17 Minutes • Audio

#6 It Should Be Okay!
Learn how to talk about an incident, a person's feelings, or the state of things, and learn how to express an intention or a plan to do something in the future
16 Minutes • Audio

#7 I'm In The Middle Of Cooking
Learn how to use a phrase meaning "to be in the middle of doing something"
15 Minutes • Audio

#8 I'm On My Way
Learn how to express "to be on one's way to a place" or "to be on one's way to go do something"
16 Minutes • Audio

#9 While You're Here, Do Some Work!
Learn how to express doing one or more things based on the fact that the other action is happening
16 Minutes • Audio

#10 And Then? What Happened?
Learn how to show two actions or states in a logical order
16 Minutes • Audio

#11 He Wasn't Even At Home!
Learn how to negate the noun or verb that it follows and leads to revealing another fact by comparing the noun or verb with another noun or verb that comes after
16 Minutes • Audio

#12 That Can't Be My Son
Learn how to express a doubt in the possibility or the likeliness of an action or a state
17 Minutes • Audio

#13 Stop Pretending
Learn how to express "the act of pretending"
13 Minutes • Audio

#14 To Be Truthful, I Did It For You
Learn about the final-sentence ending 잖아 (jana) is used when the speaker is under the assumption or supposition that the listener knows and agrees with what was just said by the speaker
14 Minutes • Audio

#15 Should I Do It Or Not?
Learn about the grammatical structure that expresses hesitation
14 Minutes • Audio

#16 I'm Bored To Death!
Learn about the grammatical structure that is used to emphasize or sometimes to exaggerate the emotion that you have or the state you're in
13 Minutes • Audio

#17 I Feel It's A Bit Too Pricey
Learn about the grammar structure used to mean that something is "kind of" in a certain state or to express what you "feel" about a object/state/action
10 Minutes • Audio

#18 I Almost Got Killed!
Learn about a grammatical structure that means "to almost do something" or "to closely escape doing something"
12 Minutes • Audio

#19 Give Me Something Nice
Learn about a grammatical structure that expresses "to ask someone to do something"
14 Minutes • Audio

#20 How About Me Instead?
Learn about the grammatical structure that expresses “instead of” or “in return for”
11 Minutes • Audio

#21 How Did That Happen?
Learn about the grammatical structure that expresses "while -ing" or "I was -ing when"
12 Minutes • Audio

#22 It Depends
Learn how to express multiple actions or states happening at the same time, giving each of the actions/states an equal probability/frequency
9 Minutes • Audio

#23 I Wish You Would Make It
Learn about the grammatical structure that means "I hope/I wish"
11 Minutes • Audio

#24 Improve Your Korean as A Result of This!
Learn about the grammatical structure that expresses "as a result of + verb"
10 Minutes • Audio

#25 Use Korean to Make Your Wishes Come True
Learn how to express a wish or a hope, and just like when the English verb 'to wish' is used
13 Minutes • Audio

#26 I Didn't Expect That to Happen in Korea!
Learn how to use the Korean expression -ㄹ 리가 없다, which means "there is not a reason for it"
20 Minutes • Audio

#27 Being Indecisive in Korea
Learn about 든지(-든 말든) for giving alternatives and 던지(-던), meaning "a past cause"
20 Minutes • Audio

#28 A Korean Interruption
Learn about -느라고, which means "to do something and be interrupted"
18 Minutes • Audio

#29 Wait For Me in Korea
Learn the construction Verb Stem + (으)ㄹ 테니까, which means "will be"
17 Minutes • Audio

#30 You Might Do This in Korea
Learn about -ㄹ까 하다, meaning "thinking about doing," which we use to communicate an estimation of a future action
19 Minutes • Audio

#31 How to Be a Good Friend in Korea
Learn about 로서, which is a Korean construction that refers to qualifications or social position
19 Minutes • Audio

#32 Despite Your Lateness, We Can Still Be Friends in Korea
Learn about the usage of "in spite of," "nevertheless," and "despite that,"
19 Minutes • Audio

#33 I Don't Mind Where We Go in Korea
Learn about (이)나, which we use to list nouns as in "either A or B" and the last choice or option
19 Minutes • Audio

#34 It Would Be Good if We Could Decide Where to Go in Korea
Learn the Korean expression of "it would/could/should/must have been"
20 Minutes • Audio

#35 Defying Death at a Korean Amusement Park
Learn the Korean construction -ㄹ/을 뻔하다 , which means "would/could come close to something"
17 Minutes • Audio

#36 Showing Restraint in Korea
Learn how to say "(I really feel like) I want that"
22 Minutes • Audio

#37 Let's Plan Our Next Move in Korea
Learn the Korean construction "Noun + 대로" or "VST + ㄴ 는 대로" -ㄹ/을 뻔하다
21 Minutes • Audio

#38 Are You Too Busy to Eat Korean Food?
Learn how to say the expression "As you know"
19 Minutes • Audio

#39 It Doesn't Do to be Rude in Korea
Learn how to say지 않으면 안 되다, which means "If you don't do it, it won't do"--or, in other words, "You must do it"
20 Minutes • Audio

#40 Your Dream of Eating Korean Food Has Come True at Last
Learn about the Korean phrase 고 말다, which you can use to convey a sense of loss, negativism, bad thinking, or misfortune
18 Minutes • Audio

#41 You Will be Full After I Give You This Korean Meal
Learn about the Korean phrase ㄹ/을 게(요), which we use to show that the speaker will do something for somebody else
18 Minutes • Audio

#42 I Don't Know Whether I'm Coming or Going in Korea
Learn about the Korean construction VST + 아/어/야 할지 모르다, which means "not know whether to VERB A or VERB B"
22 Minutes • Audio

#43 Don't Stop Learning Korean
Learn about VST + 지 말라고 하다, meaning "to tell someone not to do something"
19 Minutes • Audio

#44 Can you Take the Heat in Korea?
Learn about VST +아/어/여 내다, meaning that the preceding verb was finished with difficulty
21 Minutes • Audio

#45 Braving the Korean Doctor
Learn about VST +나(요), which is a familiar speech ending
19 Minutes • Audio

#46 Korean Chicken Soup for the Soul...and Body
Learn about VST + 게 하다, which is the causative verb structure
19 Minutes • Audio

#47 Who's the Designated Driver on this Korean Road Trip?
Learn about the Korean structure VST + (으)ㄹ 수록, which means "the more you ___, the more you do"
20 Minutes • Audio

#48 Let's Play 3.6.9 Together in Korea!
Learn about the Korean structure VST + 구나, which shows that you have certainty in what you're saying
23 Minutes • Audio

#49 Staying Awake by Playing Korean Games
Learn about the Korean structure VST + ㅁ/음 으로써, which means "by doing so"
22 Minutes • Audio

#50 Fond Memories of a Korean Road Trip
Learn about the Korean structure VST + (으)ㄹ 때, which means "when"
22 Minutes • Audio