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your brain when you don’t need to be using your second language: i am a font of knowledge; no word or grammatical form can escape my grasp!

your brain when you do need to actually know shit: the ancient greek verb for “become full of worms” is ἐκζωόομαι and this is the only word you know now

존댓말 and 반말

This lesson is to learn the differences between 존댓말 and 반말. In addition to that you will learn some Korean honorifics.

There are three politeness levels in Korean. Here is an example of them:

Words ending with -ᄇ니다 are the most polite/ formal. (존댓말)

Words ending with -아요, 어요, 여요 are slightly less formal but still polite. (존댓말)

Words ending with -아, 어, 여 are informal and far more casual. (반말)

Some examples:

고맙습니다 - 고마워요 - 고마워 (Thank you)

반갑습니다 - 반가워요 - 반가워 (Nice to meet you)

알겠습니다 - 알겠어요 - 알겠어 (I understand)

When to use 존댓말 and 반말

You must use 존댓말 if:

The person you are speaking to is older than you

The person you are speaking to you did not give you permission to use 반말 with them

You don’t know or just met the person you are speaking to

You are in a professional environment

You can use 반말 if:

The person you are speaking to if younger than you

The person you are speaking to is older but gave you permission to use 반말 with them

You are the same age as the person you are speaking to

You are writing or speaking to yourself

How to change 존댓말 to 반말

Luckily it is relatively easy to change 존댓말 to 반말. Here’s how:

Present tense:

-아/어/여요 —> -아/어/여

-이에요 / -예요 –> -이야 / -야

Past tense:

-았/었/였어요 —> -았/었/였어

Future tense:

-(으)ᄅ 거예요 –> -(으)ᄅ 거야

Honorifics Vocab:

씨 is added after someone’s name to politely address them.

아줌마 is used to address middle-aged women.

아저씨 is used to address middle-aged men.

선생님 is used to address your senior at work, school, etc… It can also mean “teacher” and “doctor.”

후배 is used to talk about someone who is your junior at work or school. However, you don’t address them as this directly.

언니 is used only by females. This literally means “older sister” but can be used to addressed other older females.

누나 is only used by males. Like 언니, it means “older sister” and can be used to address older females.

오빠 is only used by female. It means “older brother” but can be used to address other older males.

형 is only used by males. It means “older brother” but can be used to address other older males.

More ways to learn:

Video by GO! Billy Korean

Lesson by Talk to Me in Korean

Lesson by kstreet Manila

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Masterpost of Free Romantic Literature & Theory (European) (Gothic Literature)

British Romanticism

Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience by William Blake Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Don Juan & Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by Baron George Gordon Byron Collected Poetry of Lord Byron The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth Collected Poetry by John Keats Ivanhoe; Waverly & The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott The Complete Poetical Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley

French Romanticism

The Count of Monte Cristo; The Three Musketeers & The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas One of Cleopatra’s Nights and Other Fantastic Romances by Théophile Gautier Notre Dame de Paris & Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Collected Prose and Essays of Victor Hugo Poems by Victor Hugo Carmen by Prosper Mérimée The Red and the Black by Stendhal Cinq Mars by Alfred de Vigny

German Romanticism

Were I a Little Bird; The Mountaineer; As Many as Sand-grains in the Sea; The Swiss Deserter; The Tailor in Hell & The Reaper by Ludwig Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano The Broken Ring by Joseph von Eichendorff Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Collected Poetry by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fairytales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The Golden Pot; The Sandman & The Devil’s Elixir by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann Undine (Selections) by Friedrich Baron de la Motte-Fouqué Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance by Novalis The Iron Idol by Jakob Schaffner The Robbers & Mary Stuart: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller Tales from the “Phantasus,” etc. by Ludwig Tieck

Polish Romanticism

Moja Beatrice by Zygmunt Krasiński Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz Anhelli by Juliusz Słowacki

Russian Romanticism

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov Poems by Alexander Pushkin Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin Collected Works of Alexander Pushkin Collected Poetry by Fyodor Tyutchev Poems by Vasily Zhukovsky

Spanish Romanticism

Cantares gallegos by Rosalía de Castro El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections by José de Espronceda The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

Historical Theory and Background 

Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian The French Revolution of 1789 by John S. C. Abbott Rousseau and Romanticism by Irving Babbitt A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. Beers Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - The Romantic School in Germany by Georg Brandes On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism by T. S. Eliot The Destiny of Man by Johann Gottlieb Fichte The Faust Legend from Marlowe to Goethe by Kuno Francke The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature by W. F. Kirby Romantic Ireland by M. F. Mansfield and Blanche McManus The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816, Relating to Byron, Shelley, etc. Romance: Two Lectures by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Percy Bysshe Shelley On Liberty by John Stuart Mill The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac by Jessie L. Weston

Academic Theory

Introduction: Replicating Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture by Will Abberley Walter Scott’s works perception by his russian contemporaries by O. G. Anossova Theories of Space and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Isobel Armstrong The Romantic subject as an absolutely autonomous individual by  Miljana Cunta Russian-German Connections in the Editing Practice in the Mid-19th Century: Vasiliy Zhukovsky and Justinus Kerner by Natalia Egorovna Nikonova and Maria Vladimirovna Dubenko Fichte as a Post-Kantian Philosopher and His Political Theory: A Return to Romanticism by Özgür Olgun Erden Negotiating boundaries: Encyclopédie, romanticism, and the construction of science by Marcelo Fetz Wandering Motive and Its Appeal on Reluctantly Wandering Franz Schubert by  Dragana Jeremić-Molnar The Caucasian Motif in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ‘House of the Dead’ in the Light of the Polemic with Lermontov by Xuyang Mi The Core of Romanticism by Monika Milosavljević Romantic worldview as a narcissistic construct’by Branko Mitrović Topographic Transmissions and How To Talk About Them: The Case of the Southern Spa in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction by Benjamin Morgan Lermontov’s Romanticism and Jena School by Liudmila G. Shakirova The Self in a Crystal Sphere: Juliusz Słowacki’s Concept of the Subject (in his works from the 1830) by Marek Stanisz The Many Faces of Nature: An Ecocritical Reading of the Concepts of Wilderness and the Sublime in John Keats’ Selected Poems by Morteza Emamgholi Tabar Malakshah & Behzad Pourqarib

Korean Book Recommendations

Korean Stories For Language Learners: Traditional Folktales in Korean and English by Julie Darmon & EunSun You

Fun & Easy! Korean-English Picture Dictionary by Fandom Media

Your First Hanja Guide by Talk to Me in Korean and Kong & Park

News In Korean by Talk to Me in Korean