Online "handbook" for Japanese-Korean grammar?

November 19, 2010 9:38 PM

I'm looking for resources that document the matching Korean grammar rules for Japanese grammar patterns and vice versa. For example: ～ている = ~고 있다; は＝은・는, が＝이・가 (for the most part, right?)

I'm fluent in English and nearly so in Korean, but my Korean lacks because I never studied it formally in a school setting. So when I speak in Korean I form my sentences without really thinking of the grammar behind it, and can only say that it "feels right." But since I'm studying Japanese in school I'd like to be able to apply the Japanese grammar patterns I'm learning to the Korean ones I already know.

So websites in English would be best, but I could work with something in Korean. The more comprehensive, the better of course! It's my fifth semester so I'm fairly advanced (covered Genki I & II, currently studying 中級の日本語).

よろしくお願いします！

posted by qvinx to Writing & Language (6 answers total)

Response by poster: Thanks, I actually frequent that website often, but it doesn't look like most of it was translated..

Like for the "요청하기（～ください、～ちょうだい、～なさい、명령형）" bullet underneath the 4th category, 요청하기 just means "making requests." I'm looking for something that would tell me how to do the equivalent in Korean. I think ～てください would be ~해주세요 but I wouldn't know what to use for ～なさい?

[Haha I just read your 3rd comment - what happens when I flag a comment as noise?]
posted by qvinx at 10:32 PM on November 19, 2010

Mod note: Killed a couple comments.
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:35 PM on November 19, 2010

For the record, since now this thread is nonsensical (but funny), I inefficiently over the course of three comments suggested Tae Kim's site here, and in particular the Korean section here, but I realized too late that it is basically rather empty, and so I suggested my comments get wiped and Cortex graciously obliged.

Although that site is indeed awesome as qvinx already knows...qvinx, if I think of something else I will add it. But I don't have any Korean (although I'd like to someday), only English and Japanese, so...
posted by dubitable at 10:43 PM on November 19, 2010

http://jpdic.naver.com/

May not have explanations but the 예문 are extremely helpful in establishing equivalency. Also some of the the more basic grammar points are directly defined. The English/Korean dictionary is really good too.
posted by kinakomochi at 12:38 AM on November 20, 2010

I learned Korean in Japan using textbooks for Japanese students learning Korean. If you could get your hands on Japanese language textbooks for Korean, you'd improve your Japanese and Korean at the same time and understand both languages better.

I don't know about websites, I recommend actual textbooks.
posted by vincele at 3:11 AM on November 20, 2010

I like what vincele is saying, but would suggest doing it the other direction (for Koreans studying Japanese). The Minna no Nihongo books are big in Japan for foreign learners, and have a Korean edition with kanji for Japanese.
posted by whatzit at 3:27 AM on November 20, 2010