Part 1 Phonemes

01 How should we teach the vowels 'ㅔ' and 'ㅐ'?
02 What are monophthongs and diphthongs?
03 How are semivowels different from short vowels?
04 Is the 'ㅇ' used before a vowel the same as the 'ㅇ' used as a final consonant?
05 I want to know about initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants.
06 How should I teach the vowels 'ㅓ, ㅗ, ㅡ, ㅜ' effectively?
07 How should we teach the pronunciation of the Korean letter 'ㄹ'?
08 How should we teach pronunciations such as 'ㅂ/ㅍ/ㅃ' by differentiating them?
09 Which Korean consonants or vowels should I teach first?
10 I am curious about the order in which vowels are presented in an educationally effective manner.

11 How should we teach the pronunciation of final consonants?
12 Why isn't 'clothes inside' pronounced as [osan]?
13 Why is 'Kkeut-i' pronounced as [Kkeut-chi] and not [Kkeut-ti]?
14 How should I teach double consonant pronunciation?
15 Why is the pronunciation of 'like' [joayo]?
16 Why do Korean learners mispronounce 'Silla' as [Silla]?
17 Why do native English speakers mispronounce '집만' as [집만] or [지프만]?
18 When does the phenomenon of lenition occur?
Should we teach the difference in length of the 19 word sounds?

Part 2 Syntax

01 What types of particles are there in Korean?
02 How do Korean particles differ from English prepositions?
03 I want to know about cases where 'of' can be omitted.

04 Is it okay to say 'I'm going home' as 'I'm going home'?
05 In 'Our school won this match.', is 'at our school' the subject?
06 Should I teach the vocative particle?
07 What is the difference between 'eun/neun' and 'i/ga'?
08 I am curious about the basic sentence patterns in Korean.

09 What are connected sentences, enclosed sentences, and enclosed sentences?
10 What is the difference between '-neun geot', '-gi', and '-(eu)m' in Korean?
11 How do you express direct and indirect quotations?
12 Is there an easy way to distinguish between passive and causative voices?
13 Why can't adjectives be combined with imperative or quorum endings?
14 I am curious about a teaching method that makes it easy to distinguish irregular verbs.

Part 3 Meaning

01 Is the word 'galda' in "sharpen a knife" and "plow a field" a synonym or a homonym?
02 Why do polysemy occur?
03 Blue traffic light and green traffic light, which expression is correct?
04 How can I effectively explain the expression '(the soup) is refreshing'?
05 I am curious about the Korean honorific system.

06 I'm curious about the tense of 'He is the person I'm going to meet tomorrow.'

07 Is the tense of “I had nothing to do yesterday, so I went out to see a movie with a friend” correct?
08 Can I express 'I often go there' as 'I went there often'?
09 Should '-geunji alda/moruda' always be used with an interrogative pronoun?
10 Is there a difference in meaning between '-아/어 노다' and '-아/어 두다'?
11 Is there a difference in meaning between “There is only water” and “There is nothing but water”?
12 What is the difference between '안' and '안-' in negation?
13 Is there a difference in meaning between '-(으)ㄹ 수 있습니다' and '-지 할하다'?
14 Is it wrong to say “Thank you for your hard work” to your superior?

Part 4: Linguistic Norms

01 How can I teach spacing?
02 Why should the investigation be written at the beginning of the word?
03 I am curious about spacing when one-syllable words are consecutive or when numbers and unit nouns are connected.

04 Could you please explain more about spacing when writing numbers?

05 When reading numbers in Korean, what is the difference between reading them in native Korean and reading them in Chinese character form?
06 I am curious about the spacing of auxiliary verbs.

07 Should I write it as ‘Mr. Hong Gil-dong’ or should I write it as ‘Mr. Hong Gil-dong’?
08 Please explain the spacing of technical terms.

09 Which is correct, 'See you next time/See you later'?
10 Which expression is correct, 'Doeyo' or 'Doeyo'?
11 Is 'Barae' the wrong expression and 'Bara' the correct expression?
12 What is correct between ‘helper’ and ‘helper’, ‘guardian’ and ‘guardian’?
13 How did 'kkungchungkkung' become standard language?
14 Is it '가세요' or '가세요'?
15 Which is the standard language, 'confusing' or 'confused'?

“This book is designed for those who are currently working as Korean language teachers or are preparing to become Korean language teachers.
“The content is structured around problems that Korean language teachers frequently encounter in the classroom, but for which answers are difficult to find in existing theoretical grammar books.”
- From the preface

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