"Do you speak Korean?" decomposition

[JohnThompsonJTSoftware939]

From Google translate for "Do you speak Korean?" I get: 한국어 할 줄 아세요?

What are the different grammatical parts?

I was expecting some conjugation of 말하다.

Thanks.

-John

[kc101com]

From Google translate for "Do you speak Korean?" I get: 한국어 할 줄 아세요?

What are the different grammatical parts?

I was expecting some conjugation of 말하다.

Thanks.

-John

Hi John,


This is Koreanclass101.com. Thank you for your question!

To translate the literal meaning of Korean, it means do you know how to speak Korean.

So They have actually used the word 하다 as in 할 to make a connection with 알다 which means to know.

It is the combined word of saying to speak and to know and it is using polite word from 알다 to 아시다

You could also say 한국어 하세요? which means do you speak english? but 한국어 할 줄 아세요? is more of popular way of asking Korean!

Hope this helped!



Thank you

Madison
Koreanclass101.com

[trutherous]

Madison 님

설명은 훌륭한데 마지막 긴 문장에 "english"이란 단어를 "Korean"으로 바꾸시면...



a semi-literal way of looking at the sentence:

한국(Korean)어(word/speech/language) 할* 줄* 아(know)세요(polite form of question -kind of "is/does it?)?

**note that ~ㄹ 줄 is a grammatical pattern which almost = "that would be doing" or (in this case) 'that ability to." Anyway, it is best learned by examples. The pattern is usually followed by a form of "to know" or "NOT know."

~~ ㄹ 줄 아세요? (Do you know/ know how to something ) is a very useful pattern to know:

요리 할 줄 아세요? -Do you know how to cook?
춤을 출 줄 아세요? -Do you know how to dance?
영어로 쓸 줄 아세요? -Do you know how to write in English?

항국어를 할 줄 몰라요. -(I) don't know how to speak Korean.

Another way "Can you speak Korean?" can be translated is 한국말을 하십니까? lit: Korean words do is it?
한국말을 하십니까? -Can you speak Korean?
네. 좀 합니다. -Yes. I can speak (somewhat). lit: Yes. a little do.
While '좀' in the previous sentence should be a contraction of 조금 (a little), the sentence "좀 합니다" would actually indicate that you speak Korean fairly well.

[kc101com]

Madison 님

설명은 훌륭한데 마지막 긴 문장에 "english"이란 단어를 "Korean"으로 바꾸시면...



a semi-literal way of looking at the sentence:

한국(Korean)어(word/speech/language) 할* 줄* 아(know)세요(polite form of question -kind of "is/does it?)?

**note that ~ㄹ 줄 is a grammatical pattern which almost = "that would be doing" or (in this case) 'that ability to." Anyway, it is best learned by examples. The pattern is usually followed by a form of "to know" or "NOT know."

~~ ㄹ 줄 아세요? (Do you know/ know how to something ) is a very useful pattern to know:

요리 할 줄 아세요? -Do you know how to cook?
춤을 출 줄 아세요? -Do you know how to dance?
영어로 쓸 줄 아세요? -Do you know how to write in English?

항국어를 할 줄 몰라요. -(I) don't know how to speak Korean.

Another way "Can you speak Korean?" can be translated is 한국말을 하십니까? lit: Korean words do is it?
한국말을 하십니까? -Can you speak Korean?
네. 좀 합니다. -Yes. I can speak (somewhat). lit: Yes. a little do.
While '좀' in the previous sentence should be a contraction of 조금 (a little), the sentence "좀 합니다" would actually indicate that you speak Korean fairly well.

Thank you trutherous always for being active in our forum!

Hope this helped to John! If you don't feel comfortable to mean I speak Korean, then it is good to add 조금. In that sense Koreans would recognize the pace of the talk or so.

Thank you!:)


Madison

Koreanclass101.com

[JohnThompsonJTSoftware939]

Thank you Madison and Trutherous.

Is there a lesson that touches on this sentence? It'd be nice to hear the pronounciation.

Thanks.

-John

[trutherous]

Hi again John!

Here is some attempt at demonstrating the pronunciation

[kc101com]

Hi John,

Thanks to trutherous again, you could kindly utilize the link that trutherous had shared with.

I do not see the sample sentence pronounciations available in Koreanclass101.com as of now

We are sorry about that! Hope this link helps you though




Thank you

Madison
Koreanclass101.com