Coursera- First Step Korean

First impression learning through the coursera site.

Learning at coursera.org is easy enough to understand well. there is a lot of learning such as learning Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, or learning about linguistics.

I chose the topic "First Step Korean" because besides I saw this in the ranks of recommendation and it was Korean basic language learning and maybe we would be able to follow it and also I found this interesting. In learning divided into 4 weeks with several videos per session.

vWeek 1
    In learning in this topic we are presented with a video introduction first, which is the speaker is Prof. Kang Seung Hae from Yonsei University in charge of Korean Education as a Foreign Language.

    In the video she explains the origin of the Korean alphabet, which was invented and created by King Sejong The Great in the 15th century, of which there were 28 characters and were given the name "hangeul". Korean itself is one of the 13 most widely used languages, and is easier to understand than Japanese and Mandarin, although Korean characters were once thought to be similar to mandarin hanzi and there are also a number of pronunciations that are the same as Japanese and Mandarin but basically these are different .

vWeek 2
    As far as I got here is if the last sentence is vowel then it continues with “예요” (ye yo), whereas if the last sentence ends with consonant, it continues with “이에요” (i e yo).

• And in Korean the way to pronounce someone name in formal ways is “Family name+First name+씨. Meanwhile if we will pronounce in informal ways “First name+ 씨.

• Asking someone Nationality

• Practice

      vWeek 3

    This weekend we will learn about family, how to introduce family, learn vocabulary that related to family, and how to count.

In thsis video the Speaker show the conversation between 2 people who asks about their sibling? and she also explain about the suffix that should add in consonant&vowel.

·         Do you have also have brother?

In this video we will teach how to asks how many members in your family?

Conclusion :

If you say family name that ends with Vowel :

Meanwhile, if it ends with consonant :

    v  Week 4

·         When is your birthday?

In this video we will teach how to answer a question about birthday.

When you say the months in Korean, you have to use chinese numbers :

Day in Korean :

    v  Week 5

·         In this module we will learn a variety of Korean words to talk about your daily life and also learn about words describing time and place.

·         In this part we will learn to talk about your day using time expressions.

·         When you will say “start” you can say “부터” :

·         Meanwhile when you will say “until/to” you can say “까지” :

·         When you will say from to :