How to Do Punctuation in Korean | Korean FAQ

[@cherylschaeffer7832]

Wow! There's a lot of punctuation rules in Korean that I wasn't aware of.

[@himssendol6512]

Best video i've seen on Korean punctuation marks and uses. 👍🏻 Horizontal writing adapts heavily from American english, vertical writing is kind of similar to Japanese. (with some differences) 🤷‍♂️

[@mistyminnie5922]

I always found reading Korean sentences difficult because of the lack of komma's ! Knowing what verb endings to look for would be very helpful !

[@요한에르스스스]

Man that reversed writing is impressive~~~ ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[@menear]

Hes just reversing the video

[@GoBillyKorean]

It's edited: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJ7JYWZ-ndF4bKc

[@p4ngolin]

Just to answer you in the video : French uses double arrows called "guillemets" to quote what someone is saying. But nowadays a lot of people use " because it's easier on the keyboard. Word processors would change it automatically but stuff like internet browser won't. (it's not the same as putting 2 < or > but it is a good alternative). French also use the rule that if the punctuation has 2 strokes, you put 2 spaces (before and after), it it has only one it's none or one after. I am french, learning korean from english. let me tell you, punctuation is VERY confusing haha

[@jacet4607]

wow, you just answered a bunch of questions i didn’t even know i had

[@bururbot]

Congrats with 300k subscribers!!🤟

[@denislavqnakiev9705]

in my country we write the date like so : (day).(month).(year)г. example:21.03.2008г. г. comes from година wich means year and its optional (i dont know who would like to know this...lol) Edit : Thx for the likes

[@erikjohansson2703]

In my country we write 30/11 2020 or 30-11-2020 or 301120

[@vicjuli666]

In Germany we write it the same way as you (minus the cyrillic letter of course), while in Britain we also use 21/03/2008 for example. I am not aware of an official rule so I think you can also write 21.3.2008 or, 21/3/2008 (without the 0). And obviously you can also say 21st March 2008 in English or 21. März 2008 in German

[@ThisIsAlmondz]

We write the same

[@its413x]

EXCUSE ME BUT WHERE ARE U FROM?

[@denislavqnakiev9705]

@@its413x От България като теб...

[@mistyminnie5922]

THANK YOU I've been wondering about this for so long, it's difficult to find.

[@mathieu_serradell_music]

Interesting video! Another symbol I've seen, which is not typically a punctuation sign, yet it's used to separate paragraphs, or as a bullet point, is the ※ sign, 참고표 (chamgopyo, “reference mark”) or 당구장표 (danggujang-pyo, “billiard-table mark”). Interesting that it may have derived from the Chinese character 米 (uncooked rice).

[@ThisIsAlmondz]

How did you get that sign?

[@ganadaschool7935]

Your Korean pronunciation is so great♡ it really sounds like native Korean.

[@eren-mh2sp]

Thnx for everything other youtuber just teach korean but u teach all of the things there are in korea so huge respect for u 감사합니다

[@fabricioferreira2687]

This is the first video I watch about this immensely important topic in language learning! I'm not sure why Korean language KZbinrs don't talk about this more often. Another great topic I'd love to learn more about is spacing. It can be super tricky in Korean, right?

[@sabrinak5711]

He made a video about that. Enjoy. :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3-plaapetyXpKs

[@derpderp9281]

Thank you Billy! This episode was much needed! I was going to look for why Korean wrote using so many ~~~~~~~~ , since it's not used like this in my language I had no idea what it was for, it really confused me lol But this makes it much easier, 고마워요~~~~~~~~ :)))

[@jeff__w]

I think that the lack of the space with regard to parentheses is due to the fact that CJK parentheses are full-width, not half-width (as are all punctuation marks in Latin alphabet-based fonts) so, in a sense, the spaces are “built in.” (I’m _always_ telling my Korean and Chinese friends to _put the space in_ (!) before the left parenthesis when they write in English.) One use of the tilde I’ve seen that is Korean-related, if not strictly-speaking Korean, is to show some grammatical pattern that is bound to something preceding it (e.g., ~ㄹ/을 수 있다). The tilde works better than a dash because, if you're searching for that pattern online, the dash can be interpreted as “without” and would return results _without_ the part right after it.

[@lexica510]

Would love to learn about how words get broken at the end of lines. At my current beginning level, the lack of hyphens is tricky.

[@kathy4259]

I have seen this use of a full stop in Korean that I haven't seen used in English when we would use a comma. - 피곤해요. 그렇지만 영회 보고 싶아요. I'm tired, but I want to see a movie. This example is from TTMIK's Level 2 book pp38. Are there other examples like this please? Thank you Billy for all your lessons :) I have been studying with TTMIK but when I finished Level 3 I thought I would work my way through your Beginner videos as a revision. It has been really good and I've also learnt more grammar points that I wasn't aware of:)

[@seajames1690]

'I'm not talking about the famouse guitar player.' There it is, dad jokes slipping in.

[@imaneb1629]

Thank you so much

[@ftezzey]

very useful video!

[@Mad.E]

about the quotation marks.... I've see people use them in addition to the 다고/라고/etc. indirect grammar structure which entirely confused me ㅠㅠ Is that how the " is supposed to be used?

[@frarotu6750]

I've seen in quite a few Korean programmes that they also use "(?)" after a word or even a whole sentence, so like 반가워요(?) or 할 수 있어(?) and we also use (?) in Italy but I didn't quite understand if they use it in the same way. We use it for example to say that we're not pretty sure about what we're saying or that we're not sure IF we should say the thing we're saying. So I was wondering if you could help, 고맙습니다.

[@한재빈-b6h]

You already know the answer

[@frarotu6750]

@@한재빈-b6h oh ok so the same meaning, thank you!

[@johnharoldnarvaez3295]

6:08 yeah we use it in Math as a multiplication sign lol

[@boringajeossi2465]

Instead of Oxford comma, Korean use Yonsei는데

[@najmaht.a.1314]

remember when billy's evil twin without the cap used to make the q&a vids 😂

[@veroar8206]

Excuse me, I have a question. Do they use question marks? I mean in their daily life? For your answer thank you.

[@GoBillyKorean]

Yes, for making questions.

[@cjt8469]

Suddenly. 나·서울·너 makes a lot more sense.

[@champarice835]

So the Oxford comma...

[@PaulCHa]

Do Koreans use it? I hope yes!

[@robinjaipur]

Can you suggest books to learn korean except yours

[@GoBillyKorean]

I made this video here about the resources that I use: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lavbdp-lZb15Zrc

[@robinjaipur]

@@GoBillyKorean for beginners

[@p4ngolin]

I was wondering about ; and , My korean friend put a lot of,,, or ;;;;; after words and what she's trying to convey is not always clear to me.

[@p4ngolin]

@@crunchfarm17 hm. Now I wonder if the multiple commas is a way to put that Unsure-saliva-sucking-noise™ into keyboardable form hahah

[@princesykkuno5295]

everyone is talking abt the punctuations I just want to know how he wrote on the screen like that-

[@GoBillyKorean]

Here's how: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJ7JYWZ-ndF4bKc

[@Neky_Hina]

One thing you should be careful: Don't use that curl ~ too much. It makes you look like a South Korean boomer or an aged person. - 이번 영상도 아주 마음에 들어요~~~ ^^ 빌리 씨, 최고예요~~~!! ^^ This is a perfect example of how an aged woman especially having an elementary student child or children likes to say on the internet today in 2020. ;)