I have been studying Korean for 5 weeks, and it has been really difficult to me, but I really like it and I really want to continue.

1) The first big difficult part are some specific sounds of hangul. I think hangul is the most logical, beautiful "alfabet"/writing system. I simply love it! But for me the pronuntiation of ㅓ/ㅡ and the consonants are hard. ㅓ/ㅡ sounds are difficult because we don't have those sounds; up until now I make a "big O" shape with my mouth to say ㅓ, and a I literally shape my mouth like ㅡ to do that sound. I always laugh at myself because of those shapes I do hahaha, but I hope that with practice I won't need to make big mouth shapes.

The second set of difficult sounds are the consonants. We do have similar sounds like ㄹ, ㄱ, ㄷ, ㄴ, etc., but sometimes I can still confuse these sounds (for example, if I hear 나라 I could possibly mistake it with 다라). I'm still studying the subtle differences.

And the last difficult part for me in this aspect are the double consonants vs the consonants with a "rayita"/line: ㄸvs ㅌ, ㅃ vs ㅍ etc. I have taken recently I test and I completely failed at the  ㅆ/ㅅ questions hahaha ㅠ.ㅠ.

2) The second big difficulty is the vocabulary, because is unique. It is true that there are some words that come from English (pizza, coffee, etc.) and those are easy to guess, but almost every word is completely new/unique and it's hard to make associations to those words in order to memorize them. So, for now I'm repeating hundreds of times one word, and then with the next one, and so on.

3) A not-so-big problem was the order of a sentence. In Spanish/English you say "A verb B" and in Korean you say "A(particle) B(particle) verb". The issue that I might have in the future is that I heard that in Korean you drop the subject most of the times (because the context is clear), but in Spanish I use pronouns all the time, so I might get in trouble.

And that's it :D

Hi! 1) "Ella no gusta comer en los restaurantes" is an incomplete sentence. One way to fix it is using the preposition "a", which in this case indicates the person that is "receiving" the action "gustar"; so, to indicate who "no LE gusta comer en los restaurantes" you can use the preposition "a": "A ella no LE gusta comer en los restaurantes". You also need "le" to indicate what action is occuring (I think "le" is a indirect object pronoun but not 100% sure, sorry). The patter is: "A [sujeto] le [acción]" = [sujeto] "received" the [acción]. Some other examples: - A José le gusta caminar (José likes to walk) - A José le pegaron en el estómago (José was punched in the stomach) - A José le robaron la cartera (not literally but means that José was robbed and he lost his wallet) - A José le tomaron una foto (not literally but means that someone took José a picture) NOTE: Now that I'm writing this I realized that you actually CAN ommit "a" BUT it will give a different meaning. If you delete "a" then the person is doing the action instead of taking it. Some examples: - José le gusta caminar = wrong sentence - José le pegó en el estómago = José punched the stomach of someone else (you can't ommit "le", sounds weird) - José le robó la cartera = José stole the wallet of someone (you can ommit "le" if the context is clear) - José le tomó una foto = José took a picture of someone or something (you can ommit "le" if the context is clear) 2) "Gustar" is "to like" in English. As you mention it can be used to say that you like to DO something, or simply that you like something. Examples: - A José le gusta cantar = José likes to sing - A José le gusta la música = José likes music - A José le gustan las manzanas = José likes apples - A José le gusta ir al parque = José likes going to the park / José likes to go to the park Another verb that you might see is "encantar", which is stronger than "gustar. - A José le encanta el café = José loves coffee Hope it helps :)

Hi! The phrase "el libro viejo este" sounds a little weird but I have heard similar gramatical structures among older people or people that live near the coasts; I think that their intention is to emphasize the object mentioned. In summary, it may be correct but in general "este libro viejo" sounds more natural than "el libro viejo este". About your second question: 1. El libro viejo este que compré de John. -> As before, it can be correct 2. El libro este viejo que compré de John. -> Not so natural. I don't even know if it's correct or incorrect (for me it's incorrect) 3. El libro este que compré de John viejo. -> This phrase could be understood that you bought "this book" from Old John, it is better from my perspective to use the adjective next to the corresponding noun. my personal suggestion: "Este libro viejo que compré de John"

Hi! For me both are usual expressions, but maybe "calientito" is a little hotter than "tibio" but not sure if it's general among us. I use "tibio" to refer something that is not cold neither hot. Also, although it may looks like a gramatical error, for some reason we would say "el agua en la bañera está calientita" instead of "calientito", because "agua" is a femenine noun (the weird thing is that we use "el agua" instead of "la agua" in this case). Hope it helps :)

¡Hola! Antes, la canción dice: "Sabes que para darte tengo poco." Así, en este caso "fuese" se refiere a lo que él quisiera darle a la otra persona. Se podría completar así: ""Quisiera que (lo pudiera darte) fuese el mundo aunque ni modo.". Es decir, él quisiera darle cosas grandes pero está limitado. ¡Saludos! PD. ¡Nunca había escuchado la canción! Es muy buena, ya la tengo ahora mismo en repetición jaja :)

I am really interested! :D I'm learning Korean right now but I have always been interested in Asian languages :)

'The pearl' by John Steinbeck :)