Complete Speech Level System

완전 화계 체계

About this concept

All seven speech levels: 하십시오체, 해요체, 하오체, 하게체, 해체, 해라체, and their appropriate contexts. Historical and modern usage.

In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~35 cards at level C2.

가시오 (하오체)Go (old polite, now uncommon)

가게 (하게체)Go (to social inferior, elder to younger)

읽거라 (해라체)Read (plain command, written/older)

그러하다 (archaic)It is so (archaic/formal)

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