어디 가요? 집에 가지마!

Note: this post is based on Chapter 4 of Shin's textbook (see resources section).

I am not a fan of the vocabulary in this Chapter since I was wishing for a common word for store, shop, etc after each type of, well, store, shop joint. etc. Plus, it is kinda difficult to come up with mnemonics for this vocabulary. I tried though...


집 -  house, home (집에 가지마 by Big Bang* taught me the word for house, the location particle, the verb to go and the negative, all of it in a song title. 감사합니다)

학교 - school (just watched 학교 2013 and it made it even easier to remember)

대학교 - university (lit. large school. Also the counter for machines and punches)

교실 - classroom

강의실 - lecture room (실 does mean room, but so does 방)

학생 - student (see a pattern?)

 학생 식당 - student dinning hall

식당 - dinning hall, restaurant

음식점 - restaurant (two words, spoilt for choice)

도서관 - library

서잠 - bookshop
서 - book (it turns out 서 is another word meaning book in addition to the most commonly used 책)


카페 - cafe

커피숍 - coffee shop

인터넷 카페 - internet cafe

PC 방 - internet cafe (lit PC room)

노래방 - karaoke (lit song room)

시내 - downtown, city centre (not cinema)

극장 - cinema, theatre

우체국 - post office (ends in 국, every nation has it, it basically defines statehood)

은행 - bank (the place whenever I go to makes me feel like hanging myself... I tried creating a mnemonic and failed)

공원 - park (it has ball and won in it, where all football players start before making lots of money...?)

공항 - airport

역 - railway station

병원 - hospital (counter for bottle followed by won. Well, you drink too much, you end up in hospital and you also end up paying an efty bill... especially in the USA)


마트 - 'mart' (perfect Konglish)

가게 -  corner shop

비디오가게 - video shop (Konglish plus legit Korean)

슈퍼마켓 - supermarket

편의점 - convenience store

백화점 - department store

시장 - market


어디 - where
같이 - together (gachi)


Test chapter's vocabulary using these Flashcards!!!

-에

location marker particle

Introduced in this chapter by its meaning 'to', however restricting the explanation to this is not beneficial in the bit. Better get it right right away than having to add meanings later on. (This is something I really dislike about this textbook, lack of grammar!!)

-에, means 'to' and 'at' and can be used to mark a location, a time, a situation and many other things (my source* decided to adopt an uncessarily limiting or ambiguous approach in its explanation... 그새끼*)

and is used as, NOUN+에 

Examples:

학교에 가요. - I go to school.

어디에 가요? - Where are you going?

어디에 있어요? - Where are you?

* 집에 가지마, album GD&TOP. It's actually pretty cool.
* Source: Talk To Me In Korean, Level 1, Lesson 18.
* GD taught me this.