2000 Most Common Korean Words in Context

Learning a new language is like venturing into a new world and it comes with challenges.

In Korean, each character is a combination of (1) vowel, (2) consonant & vowel, or (3) consonant & vowel & consonant.

Let take the Korean word for country, “나라” (pronounced as nara).

Word conjugation depends on tense, tone, mood, social relation, and other factors.

For example, when Koreans say, “Mary likes John (메리는 존을 좋아해요).” in Korean, there are two postpositions after “메리 (Mary)”, and “존 (John)”.

Furthermore, when Koreans say, “I like it” (Here, "it" is a placeholder), both subject and object are not used in many cases (“좋아요.”).

For example, when Koreans say, “I like your song (저는 당신의 노래가 좋아요).” in Korean, they usually speak without the subject (“당신의 노래가 좋아요.”).

For example, the sentence "I have a phone (저는 휴대폰를 가지고 있습니다)" is used in English in the order of subject, verb, and object, but in Korean it is in the order of subject, object, and verb.

Korean has a completely different word order compared to English.

5- Associations: Associate a word with something memorable, funny, shocking, etc.