"The piano is easy to play. Beat the keyboard." – Shaina, 5th grade. And here, all this time, I thought it was difficult. That it required some kind of finesse. Maybe I should give it a try.
I found a phrase that just drove me nuts:
우리학원을 오시려면 이렇게 오세요
The breakdown, as far as I can figure out:
우리학원을 =our school+[OBJ]
오시려면 = come+[HONORIFIC]+["INTENTIVE-SUPPOSITIONAL"(whatver that is)]+[CONDITIONAL-CLAUSE-SUBORDINATOR]
이렇게 = being thus+[-LY] ("thusly")
오세요 = come+[HONORIFIC CONJUGATED]+[POLITE/FINITE]
So, from all that:
if your honorable self might come to our school, come like this [i.e. here are some directions for getting here? or, i.e. come "as you are"?]
Meanwhile, babelfish alleged:
"Our school five cotton come coldly like this"
Hahaha. Never trust babelfish. That looks like it should be on a tshirt, though.
Other Korean Vocab:
회원 = member
금상=gold (first) prize