“Where are you from?”

Let the learning session begins..

안녕하세요!!..

Well, before we could learn how to say the post title question in hangul lets learn a few keywords that will help us along the way..

Korea = 한국(han-guk)
China = 중국(jung-guk)
Japan = 일번(ilbon)
America =미국(mi-guk)
England = 영국(Yeong-guk)
Canada = 캐나다(cae-na-da)
Ireland =아일랜드(ail-lan-deu)
Australia =호주(hoju)
Country =나라(nara)
City = 도시(dosi)

Note : if you have been following my hangul lesson, you’ll notice that ㄹ have two sound which are ‘l’ and ‘r’ sound.. keep in mind that when ‘ㄹ’ is in between two vowel it would be sounded as ‘r’ else it would be sounded as ‘l’.. for example ‘Country’ (나라 = nara)..and ‘Ireland’ (아일란드 = ai-il-lan-deu).

In Hangul, “ Where are you from?” would be…
어디에서 왔어요? (eodi-eseo wasseoyo?)..

Here, eodi = where.. eseo = from and wasseoyo = come…
So if hangul is convert literally into English it would be “where from come?”..the language structure is a bit different so be familiar with it and you’ll get use to it ;)..

Note : In hangul, ‘you’ is often neglected..its the same with ‘he’ or ‘she’.. Korean rarely use it.. its like you instantly know that the ‘question’ is directed to ‘you’ so you don’t have to use ‘you’..can you follow me here? Lol…

So how do you answer to the question..??..
The reply for it would be..
저는 ..countryname…-에서 왔어요 (jeoneun …-eseo wasseoyo)

For example..
저는 한국에서 왔어요 (jeonuen hanguk-eseo wasseoyo = I’m from korea)

Here is another keyword I’d like to share with you guys.
사람 which means people or person. I will not provide you with the Romanization from times to times so be familiar with the hangul letters and try to pronounce it yourself..
With사람 you can create sentence such as.. “I am Korean”.. “..name.. is Korean”…etc

For example,
저는 호주사람이에요. (jeo-neun hoju-saram-ieyo).
Which means “I am Australian/Aussie”.
Jeoneun = I
Hoju = Australia
Saram = person
Ieyo = particle for am/is/are.. in some cases, when the word before this particle ends with a vowel, the partile would be –yeyo instead of –ieyo. I’ll touch about these in our latter lesson. So at the moment don’t confuse yourself. Since saram ends with a ‘m’ thus the particle ending is –ieyo.

So if you literally convert 저는 호주사람이에요 into engish it would be “I Australia person am”..

안녕하세요. 저는 자리트이에요. 저는 말레이시아에서 왔어요. 저는 말레이시아사람이에요.
See if you can read and understand that. Good luck ; )