Betsy's Learning Korean

  Anyone can look up a list of Sino-Korean numbers (numbers based on Chinese characters) and get something like this:   0: 공 1: 일 2: 이 3: 삼 4: 사 5: 오 6: 욕 7: 칠 8: 팔 9: 구 10: 십 But how are students supposed to remember them?

 First you might want to refresh yourself on Native Korean Numbers which are used to tell time (hours): ➡ How to remember Native Korean Numbers  You might also what to know how counters work:   ➡ What the heck is a Korean counter?   

  First, what the heck is a "subject"?   The subject is the person, idea, or thing the sentence is talking about . 

In English, talking about the number of things might be like this: • There are 7 bottles of water. After saying the number (7), there's a word to describe what is being counted (bottles). Other words might be slices of pizza or sheets of paper. There's a similar concept in Korean with counter words.   

  Anyone can look up a list of Native Korean numbers and get something like this:   1: 하나 2: 둘 3: 셋 4: 넷 5: 다섯 6: 여섯 7: 일곱 8: 여덟 9: 아홉 10: 열 But how are students supposed to remember them?