Practise speaking Korean out loud
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The bit that trips people up: choosing how polite to be, every single sentence
Korean makes you commit. The verb ending changes depending on who you are talking to, and there is no neutral option to hide behind, so every sentence is a decision about the relationship. Textbooks teach the polite -요 form and stop there, which leaves you sounding stiff with a friend and careless with a stranger. It is the kind of thing you only calibrate by saying it to someone and noticing how it lands.
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Conversations you can practise in Korean
- Ordering at a restaurant and asking for it less spicy
- Asking a shop assistant for a different size
- Introducing yourself to a colleague on your first day
- Telling a taxi driver where to go and asking to stop early
- Explaining a symptom at the pharmacy
Not on the list? Describe the situation and ConvoLive builds it.
Three phrases worth being able to say
Every learner needs these before they need anything clever.
- 이거 하나 주세요
- One of these, please
- 천천히 말해 주세요
- Could you speak more slowly?
- 아직 배우는 중이에요
- I'm still learning
Korean questions people ask
- Do I need to read Hangul first?
- No. You speak and listen here, and the transcript shows the Hangul next to what it means, so the letters arrive attached to something you have already said. Most people find it the easiest writing system they have learned, but it is not a gate you have to pass first.
- Will it teach me the formal speech I need at work?
- Yes, and it is the reason to practise by speaking rather than reading. Each scenario sets who you are talking to, so the same request comes out one way to a shop assistant and another to a manager. You build your own scenarios too, so if the situation you dread is a specific one, you can run it until it stops being frightening.