How common for a girl to call a boy/man older than her 형? So I watched this movie and a girl called a man older than her 형 instead of 오빠. Is it common? Why did she do so? Do you Koreans see it as a strange thing? I find it interesting actually, because I personally like listening to the pronunciation of 형 and I like pronouncing it as well.

Conjunctive mood "if I were you, I would.." in Korean For non-factual conjunctive mood, does Korean also have specific grammar rules like in English? I have just found out that someone asked this question before on this site, but unfortunately the one who answered the question simply translated the sentence. But from the translations, I caught that: 1. For the "if" clause, you use 만약 to state that it's not factual + ~면, and the tense is in present. 2. For the "would" clause, you simply use future tense. Did I get it right?

Is this correct? How to say "The book that I thought was on my desk is gone" in Korean? I thought it would be 내 책상에 있는 것 같은 책이 지나갔다, is this correct?

새로운 말 오늘은 한 노래 에서 제가 새로운 말을 세개 배우 했어요: 피해자 와 가해자 와 방관자 예요. 그말을 너무 어려워서 기억하기는 힘들었어요. 하지만 좋은 학생으로 제가 포기 하지 않았어요. 그 노래를 들으면서 그 세 말을 반복 했으니까 지금은 잘 기억 해요. 제가 잘 했죠 ^o^

행복의 의미 그들은 행복의 의미를 무엇는지 알고 말했다. 어떤 사람들이 한태, 돈이 많이 있어면 마음이아주 좋다. 다른 사람들이 한태는 돈이 필어 없다. 그 사람들이 한대 가적 과 좋은 진구가 있어면 하루 종일 미소 할수 있다. 저는 말이야, 솔직히 아직 잘모르겠다... *For those kind people who are willing to correct my entry, I really appreciate it if you can give a little bit of explanation. 감사함니다! ^^

Indonesian and its negligible inflected words If you are someone who is trying to find a new language to learn, then Indonesian is a good choice! Well, apart from the fact that I am Indonesian, I earnestly L.O.V.E Indonesian. And I think you will be in the same wave-length as mine once you know this language because it is the simplest language in the world! (don't believe me, I only know several foreign languages :P) Our words do not change no matter the tenses, the subjects, the numbers and the genders. You only need one word to use in any kind of situations. The only thing you need to do is to add some markers for different tense. You can see how the word form of "memakan" or "eat" in English, remains the same in the examples below: I eat apples everyday ==> saya memakan buah apel setiap hari She eats apples everyday ==> dia memakan buah apel setiap hari I am eating an apple ==> saya sedang memakan sebutir buah apel She is eating an apple ==> dia sedang memakan sebutir buah apel I ate some apples yesterday ==> dia memakan beberapa buah apel kemaren I have eaten some apples ==> saya telah memakan beberapa buah apel I was eating an apple when she came ==> saya sedang memakan sebutir buah apel saat dia datang See how we only need one word in those examples while you need to change it into five forms in English, depends on the tenses and the subjects. You will also notice that we know no supporting verbs. You can use this one-for-all word without need to worry whether you are using the right form or not, because there is no other forms! How handy is that?

In what situation you can use ~구만 and ~구나? 안녕하세요! 친구들, Can you please explain in what situation you can use expression ~구만 and ~구나? What makes them different? I think I get the feel when I can use ~구나, but still cannot differentiate it from ~구만. If you can give some examples, that would be really helpful. 고마워요! ^^

is there any difference between ~고 생각해 and ~하는 거 같애? As far as I know, ~고 생각해 and ~하는 거 같애 can roughly be translated as "I think". Is there any difference in the meaning? So if I want to say "I think I have to do that" which one is better, "그걸 해야 한다고 생각해" or "그걸 해야 하는 거 같애"? 고맙습니다! :D

비 가 온다! ^^ 목요일 밤 열 한 시 반 여기 에 비 가 온다 다른 사람들 이 이렇게 나쁜 날씨가 싫은데 난 아주 좋다 이유 가 몰라 아마 뜨거운 초콜릿 을 더 맜있어 만들어서 아니면... 자 고 싶은 만큼 자 도 된다 몰라.. 그냥 좋아.. ^^