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Hangul Course · Lesson 5
안녕하세요!

Your First Conversation

Everything from Lessons 1–4 comes together here: greeting someone, introducing yourself, asking a few questions, and saying goodbye — a real, complete exchange.

Before you start

One thing to know about tone

You've mostly been learning the polite, everyday speech level — safe to use with anyone. There's one small wrinkle worth knowing before you dive in.

-이에요/예요 · -합니다

Two "polite" levels

-이에요/예요 (what you've learned) is warm, everyday polite — fine for most situations. -합니다 endings, like 감사합니다, are a notch more formal, common in greetings and set phrases. You'll hear both.

안녕히 가세요 ≠ 안녕히 계세요

Two goodbyes

Korean has a different goodbye depending on who's leaving. Say 가세요 to the person walking away, and 계세요 to the person staying behind.

01

New words for today

The phrases that open and close almost every Korean conversation.

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02

Introduce yourself

Pick a name and hear your own self-introduction, built with the same 이에요/예요 rule from Lesson 3.

Pick a name
03

A full conversation

Every line here uses only what you've learned across Lessons 1–5.

04

What would you say?

Four quick situations. Pick the response that actually fits.

05

Check yourself

10 questions covering today's phrases and how to use them.