Comments on: How-to Korean: say ‘PLEASE’ (video)

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:29:23 +0000

How do you introduce yourself. like for an interview, audition,
For example:
Hi my name is maria. I’m 19 years old. And so on
Let’s just saybwhat would really surprise them from us non Asians

By: Ian Kingston

Ian Kingston — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:43:51 +0000

How would I say You must pay this bill plus a reconnect fee so that your service can be turned back on.
Context
I work for an utility company that services water and power.
I have to tell customers this everyday, in case i take a Korean Call, how would I make this statement. My company no longer uses Korean Interpreters and we only have 5 Korean Customer Service Representatives out of 300 employees.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:59:13 +0000

Yeah, and for the most part, 부탁합니다 is still used quite often to say “Can you do me a favor?”, or something to that nature.

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:24:50 +0000

부탁 합니다 is “please” but is rarely used as I think it is overdoing it. Also 좀 is sometimes used. Rob is right in saying that the 세요 ending will suffice.

By: RobJ

RobJ — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:50:49 +0000

Hi Dalit,

No, you would say “말해 주세요”.

And to order a coffee, you would say, “커피 (한잔) 주세요”.

Sorry, I’m actually thinking of redoing the video. When I was explaining about levels of respect and there not being an actual word for please, I was just using to 이다 (the verb ‘to be’) as an example, to show the different levels of respect.

But for the most part, when asking someone do something for you or to give you something, we will use 주세요.

주세요 comes from the verb, 주다, meaning ‘to give’, and then the ~세요 is a polite form of a command. So although there isn’t an actual for please in that sentence, it is in context saying “give me please” or “do this for me please” because it is in a higher form of respect.

If “Tell me, please” is 말해 주세요, then a couple lower, more informal ways of saying that could be “말해 줘요” or “말해 줘”.

Some other examples using 주세요 are…

기다려 주세요 (Wait for me, please)
해 주세요 (Do it for me, please)
사 주세요 (Buy it for me, please)

And all of these examples can also be conjugated down into the lower levels of ~줘요 and ~줘.

Hope that helps, and sorry for the confusion! Again, I’m strongly considering redoing this video
’cause I don’t think I emphasized enough that 주세요, although not actually the word “please”, is
essentially asking someone to do something in a more polite way.

By: Dalit

Dalit — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:49:52 +0000

Hi Rob,
Thank you for the video.
I would like to make sure I understand, so if I want to say: “Please tell me….” I should say: “말해 입니다” ?
and how should I say: “can I get some coffe please ?”
Have a nice day,
Dalit

By: RobJ

RobJ — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:53:55 +0000

Hi Venki,

If you can tell me what terms you’d specifically like done, I’d be more than happy to
help you out with it. Now I must say, I’ve been here six years as an English teacher
so probably all of the words you’ll want me to find will also be new to me, so it might
not be a real quick process, and there may be a few inaccuracies that you’ll need to
check out later, but I’ll certainly give it a red hot go.

Just send me a list of words you’d like translated.

Cheers Venki,

Rob…

By: sadagopan venkatesan

sadagopan venkatesan — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:18:13 +0000

Dear Mr.Rob Julien,

I am working in Automobile industry as a Design Engineer, I need technical terms in korean
language,because this is very difficult to communicate korean people.

Can you help me…

Your online korean language class very very usefull for me..

Thank you very much,
With regards,
Venki
mail: venkatesan_cad@yahoo.co.in