Sentence Structures (In all languages but English)

English is literally the only language where all the sentence have to be in the order of subject, verb, object.  Yes, we do use other structures, but we usually stick to this rule of thumb, right?  Well, guess what?  In other languages, you can basically throw that out the window.  Why?  Well, other languages actually use the order of subject, object, verb.  Weird, right?  There are sentences that are like the English sentence structure, but this is the general format of it.  Well, just keep that in mind when you are starting to learn other languages so that way, whenever you are looking at a sentence in another language, you will not be thrown off so much.

Nominative Case (Latin)

In Latin, there are five different cases.  The first case that I will be going over is the Nominative case.  This case is simply the subject case.  This case will be used to describe the subject of the sentence.  When looking at an English-Latin dictionary, Latin-English dictionary, or even Latin textbooks, you will usually see the singular Nominative case first.  If you can remember anything, remember that the Nominative case is the noun that is doing something!

Korean Alphabet: Diphthongs and Double Consonants

I'm back again, and this time with the diphthongs of the Korean language.  Now, you would see the diphthongs more for the vowels.  This is when you're combining vowels sounds

This vowels are a little hard to pronounce the first time around.  What helped me with the pronunciation is actually using it and listening to native speaker using these diphthongs.  I will be posting video clips of people using these diphthongs when I post vocabulary words, so if you don't get it now, don't worry!

Another thing that I felt the need to add in with this one is the double consonant sounds.  This is usually paired with diphthongs when diphthongs are being taught.  Now, when I was in the process of learning this language, there was a teacher who told me that it is actually easy for Americans to pronounce the double consonant sounds (this may or may not be true, so don't truly take my word for it!) .  The reason for the double consonant sound is to give more of an accent on that consonant.  Not all of the consonants will use the double consonant sounds, so please take note of it.   As you can see in the picture, the double consonants have the prefix ssang before it.

I hope that this will be useful in learning the Korean language.

The Korean Alphabet

Korean was my second language that I started learning.  The reasons for choosing it you may ask?  Well, I was at Korea the time that I started learning about it, and I'm half-Korean, so it would be good to know more about my heritage.  What I didn't know was how contagious this language is.  I first started with the alphabet because it was easy, and I was able to get the basics down in no time.  If I were to time myself, maybe the total time I had to learn this alphabet was probably less than a week.  This is what I'm going to start everyone out because for Korean, it is easier to learn the alphabet than it is learning the words.  So, here you go and enjoy!

Next post about Korean, I will be talking about combinations!

First Declension Nouns (Latin)

Latin is literally the fourth language that I have started on, and I have realized how this is so close to the romance languages (being the bases for them).  So, I'm going to start this language out with the first declension nouns.  These nouns usually have an ending of -a. So here is how you would decline these nouns.

Singular Nominative: -a
Singular Genitive: -ae
Singular Dative: -ae
Singular Accusative: -am
Singular Ablative: ā

Plural Nominative: ae
Plural Genitive: -ārum
Plural Dative: īs
Plural Accusative: ās
Plural Ablative: īs

Now this is a lot to take in, right?  But have you realized some similarities in the endings? Singular Genitive, Singular Dative, and Plural Nominative have the same ending of -ae.  That makes it easier on us, isn't it?  To tell you guys the truth, I'm able to have each of these declension endings memorized in less than a half an hour.  What I usually tell people is to learn it in the way that you can learn it.  Mine is just memorizing.  So, good luck if you are learning Latin!

Introduction

Hello everyone! I'm doing this blog to help people learn languages easier.  I'll be doing multiple languages at the same time.  So, enjoy!