Anonymous asked: if google translate is unreliable, how should i translate whole sentences while learning?

This is an excellent question, since it may help some people.

Now, if you’ve read all of my lessons - first of all, thank you - you have about as much knowledge about Korean as me. So it’s probably best I tell you guys some tricks I use to get decent translations out of Google Translate. All of these are assuming that normal sentence structure is used and not, say, internet short hand.

• Pick out words - If there’s a word you don’t know the definition of, plug it in by itself to see what it means. If you do this with enough words, you might be able to get the gist of the meaning.
• Split words up - Korean usually put articles and prepositions and whatnot on the backside of the word, so if the word is still just romanized English, try splitting up the word at different points.
• Get rid of conjugation - Most verbs come at the end, and are almost always conjugated in some way or another. Try to see if you can change the verb to it’s most basic form and you might get lucky. 

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