Grinding how to make question sentences

today’s accomplishment:

i translated 70% of this song by myself!!

now did my translation make sense?? no not at all BUT I DID IT!!

personally, i don’t like it when someone says “oh don’t learn that language bc it’s useless. they only speak it in one country, you should learn *insert on with a lot of speakers internationally* instead!”

isn’t the fact that someone speaks that language enough? is it so “useless” to learn about a lesser known country’s history and culture?

to me, there’s no such thing as a “useless language”

The Korean Probable Future Tense

WATCH THE LESSON: https://youtu.be/GvJ0p6w4q9g

 Hello my fellow students welcome to the future! We are gonna be learning one way of making the future tense in Korean. Funny thing about the future tense in Korean, it’s one of those things that does not translate perfectly from English. There are multiple ways of talking about the future in Korean. We will start with one of the more common and versatile ways: the probable future. 

In English when we talk about the future we use the sentences like: “I will ____” “You will ____” “It will _____”; or “I’m going to ______” “You’re going to _____” “It’s going to ______”.

But, you see… Koreans don’t pretend that they can predict the future with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY. So, they don’t say things like “It’s going to rain” the say “It’s probably going to rain”. and they don’t even need to include the word ‘probably’ in the sentence (because who wants to stick an extra word their sentence like that) Instead they just conjugate their verbs into the probable future tense and the 'probably’ part is baked right in!

So lets learn the probable future.

We start with an infinitive verb. Lets choose ha-da and meok-da

하다                      먹다

then you do the usual thing and cut off the -da

하                               먹
then you’ve got to add the probable future tense ending

if you verb root ends in a vowel the ending is 

-ㄹ거야  -ㄹ거예요  -ㄹ겁니다  (color code: casual, polite, formal)

and

-을거야  -을거예요  -을겁니다 

for verbs that end in consonants

examples:

하다 => 할거야 할거예요 할겁니다

먹다 => 먹을거야 먹을거예요 먹을겁니다

and it’s the same for all types of verbs. It’s not like present tense or past tense where we needed a different ending for ㅓ verbs, ㅏ verbs and 하다 verbs. All the verbs get the same ending when we conjugate them into the probable future.

You may also see it with a little space added. Both with the space and without the space are equally correct.

ㄹ 거야 ㄹ 거예요  ㄹ 겁니다 end in vowels.

을 거야 을 거예요  을 겁니다 end in consonants.

AND THAT’S IT! That’s your probable future tense.

Thanks for studying with me.

WATCH THE LESSON: https://youtu.be/GvJ0p6w4q9g

I haven’t been here in forever.

My current Langue du Jour is Mandarin. No reason. I’m doing the lessons on Duolingo.

Here’s what I know so far.

Water - Shũi (I know that’s the wrong tone mark, I don’t know how to bring the correct one up at the moment).

Coffee - Kāfēi

And - Hè

Tea - Chá (is that the right tone 🤔)

Soup - Tāng

Rice - Mífàn

I also know what “she”, “shima”, “bisha” and “meiyo” mean but I don’t know how to write them correctly in pinyin (yes, what, Your Majesty, and no, respectively). I know these words because I’m watching a Chinese historical drama and they say these words A LOT, especially “Your Majesty” 😂

And I can remember how to write, by heart, the hanzi for water, coffee and tea so far. Water and tea are the same as the Japanese kanji equivalent (I’m pretty sure they’re the same).

😁✌️Baby steps, man, baby steps.

Planning to use more finnish, i wamt to courage people to learn different languages 😁

What could motivate people to learn finnish? Fanfics written im finnish? Short updates?

my own female urge: to know, understand and speak English, German and Italian fluently.

the world will be a better place when “Talk To Me In …” for other languages will be created as well

“In the middle of the night, and in the early morning, we have the world to ourselves!”

Alain De Botton

👍 for study buddies ❣️

It’s 1 am here. I love late study sessions!

I started Genki II two days ago.

It’s an interesting textbook with different exercises than MNN. I’m planning on finishing Genki II before continuing with MNN II.

I bought a new mechanical pencil for my kanji. It’s Pilot Vega 0.5. It’s my favorite ✏️ right now.

I’ve got a cute little visitor this morning!

Any idea why this bird is doing the jumps?

I’m starting lesson 32 today 🙌

I’m going to use it here to practice my English

I’m so bad at learning 🙃🤡

WHO WANNA BE MY LANGUAGE BUDDY. I’m trying to learn Korean right now but it’s just not sticking when it comes to conversing, can someone please just language buddy me.

Terve kaikkille! Mä ollen nioshi ja se on minun sivu¿(webpage), jota minä voin harjoitella suomen kieltä. Nyt mä opiskelen suomen kieli yliopistossa, mutta mä haluan harjoitella enemmän ja tässä voi olla virheet siis se on normaali¿ Jos te opiskelette suomen kielen, siis voi autta minua ja korjaa virheet. Tervetuloa!

Tänään on 30/12/22

Aamulla mä tulin kotiin (noin 8 kello). Minun tapasi isäni, sitten hän meni työhön. Mä ja äitini söimme ja lepäisimme. Päivällä minun täytyi siivota asuntoon. Myös mä menin kauppaan ja ostin mehu, makkara, maito ja vielä mä otin isän lahja uutta vuotta. Hänen tarvitse termospullo ja mä ostin tämä. Toivon, että hän pitää siitä.

Päivä on hyvää ja mä olen Illoinen olla kotona.

Huomenna on uutta vuotta ja mä toivon sinulle onnea juhlaa! 🎉🐉

12.15.

My English journey is just started.

But I have a lot of problems like a how to improve my listening skills, how to cover wide range of expressions.

And today, BBC news hit me. IT WAS TOO DIFFICULT to understand news for native speakers.

But I need to understand this level to take a creative writing course at uni. So I’m stick of high level English contents.

Honestly, I can’t see my future, where it the exit, when it ends. However I believe myself. I would reach unbelievable place.

I can do it <3

Also you can❤️‍🔥

Gimme my 10 gems. 💎

Is it “le” or “la”? Trying to learn which one sounds right.

https://clips.twitch.tv/ZanyResourcefulWrenchSMOrc-pL_14DV7hsVw06ii

entering the Tumblr community I realized how much (being an Italian girl) English is my second language. I’m 13, bilingual and I never use the translator. I’m proud of myself because learning English at level C2 was very difficult, but I succeeded and I congratulate myself. sit here with English users and understand all of this they say makes me feel at home.

ask me anything!

byee :)

by @thegaiaasblog

Does anyone of you guys learn/study a language and want to be be study buddies? Or does anyone knows a good discord study group (preferably for language learning)?

Check out this video “How Does This Work?” https://www.twitch.tv/lingocurio/v/1814346160?sr=a&t=1465s

Twitch

I have no idea how Twitch works but I just streamed myself doing Portuguese on Duolingo 😆 Check it out!