Korean is spoken by at least 75 million people throughout the world, over 40 million in South Korea and over 20 million in North Korea. There are also about 2 million speakers in China, 700,000 in Japan, and 600,000 in the United States. It is to be classified as an isolated language. Scholars' opinions differ as to whether or not Korean is related to Japanese. It is possibly distantly related to Altaic.
Korean's grammatical structure is most similar to Japanese, however. It is certainly not related to Chinese, although it has borrowed many Chinese words and has used the Chinese characters, together with the Korean alphabet, for many centuries. The Korean alphabet (Hangul script), invented in the years 1443-46, is the only true alphabet native to the Far East. Modern Standard Korean is based on a dialect spoken in Seoul. Korean grammar has a system of honorifics-endings and internal word markings that reflect established social relationships.
Korean's grammatical structure is most similar to Japanese, however. It is certainly not related to Chinese, although it has borrowed many Chinese words and has used the Chinese characters, together with the Korean alphabet, for many centuries. The Korean alphabet (Hangul script), invented in the years 1443-46, is the only true alphabet native to the Far East. Modern Standard Korean is based on a dialect spoken in Seoul. Korean grammar has a system of honorifics-endings and internal word markings that reflect established social relationships.
Learning the Korean Phrases is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Korean language. But first we need to know what the role of Phrases is in the structure of the grammar in Korean.
Korean phrases are a group of words functioning as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. Here are some examples:
English Phrases Korean Phrases
Phrases 구문 - gu mun
hello 안녕하세요 - an nyeong ha se yo
bye 잘가 - jal ga
congratulations 축하합니다 - chuk ha hap ni da
sorry 죄송합니다 - joe song hap ni da
really 정말로 - jeong mal lo
As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Phrases in Korean has a logical pattern. Locate the Phrases above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Korean.
Korean phrases are a group of words functioning as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. Here are some examples:
English Phrases Korean Phrases
Phrases 구문 - gu mun
hello 안녕하세요 - an nyeong ha se yo
bye 잘가 - jal ga
congratulations 축하합니다 - chuk ha hap ni da
sorry 죄송합니다 - joe song hap ni da
really 정말로 - jeong mal lo
As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Phrases in Korean has a logical pattern. Locate the Phrases above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Korean.