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3층으로 가세요!
What does “3층으로” really mean? Does “1층으로” refer to the first floor (as in British English) or the ground floor (what the Americans call the first floor)? Suppose I am currently on the second floor how many floors do I have to go up when someone tells me “3층으로 가세요” (one or three)?
Would it make any difference if he or she said "3층으로 올라가세요."?
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Ideas on using flash cards for Korean vocabulary
I like using flash cards to remember Korean vocabulary. One of my favourite techniques is grouping them, so that all the words on a card are related. For me, it is then much easier to remember them. Without even trying I am often able to remember the other words on a card when given the first.
One of my cards looks like this:
회사 company
회사원 company employee
회의 meeting
회의실 meeting room
회견 interview
회식 group dinner
회계 accounting
The words obviously share the syllable 회. Since it is a Sino-Korean word the syllable is represented by the Chinese character 會 which reminds me of a company building.
Since it is sometimes a bit difficult to find connected words it would help me to have a Korean dictionary where I could search for words containing a certain Chinese character. Does anyone know of such a dictionary?
Any other ideas on grouping or using flash cards for Korean are welcome as well.
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실례지만 vs 실례하지만?
Why is the expression 실례지만 correct? I would have expected 실례하지만 to be the correct form because 실례 is a noun and 실례하다 is a verb and my (maybe too basic) grammar book tells me that the ~지만 pattern works with verbs only.
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