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| INTRODUCTION |
| Seol: 안녕하세요. 윤설입니다. |
| Keith: Keith here! Beginner Lesson #20 – It’s Too Much! Now in our last lesson, we had Tom and Mina on the phone. And what happened? |
| Seol: Tom was asking Mina to go to Namdaemon. |
| Keith: And we left out with Mina saying “Umm….” |
| Seol: Yeah, she didn’t answer. |
| Keith: Yeah, she didn’t answer, but I know what happened. So… |
| Seol: What happened? What happened to them? |
| Keith: Well, she said “yes” so they’re going shopping now, okay? |
| Seol: Really? Wow. |
| Keith: Sorry to break the suspense, but we want to explain the situation. So right now, Tom and Mina, they just entered the store and they’re talking about prices. |
| Seol: And they speak in formal politeness level. |
| Keith: Yeah, they’re not too friendly yet; still formal. So without further a-do, let’s listen to it. |
Lesson conversation |
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| 직원 어서 오십시오! |
| 톰 네… |
| 미나 톰 씨.. 여기 비쌉니다. |
| 톰 미나 씨… 여기 쌉니다. 돈이 없습니까? |
| 미나 네, 없습니다. |
| Seol: 한 번 더 천천히. |
| 직원 어서 오십시오! |
| 톰 네… |
| 미나 톰 씨.. 여기 비쌉니다. |
| 톰 미나 씨… 여기 쌉니다. 돈이 없습니까? |
| 미나 네, 없습니다. |
| Seol: 영어로 한 번 더. |
| 직원 어서 오십시오! |
| Keith: Welcome! |
| 톰 네… |
| Keith: Yes. |
| 미나 톰 씨.. 여기 비쌉니다. |
| Keith: Tom, it's expensive here. |
| 톰 미나 씨… 여기 쌉니다. 돈이 없습니까? |
| Keith: Mina, it's cheap here. Don't you have money? |
| 미나 네, 없습니다. |
| Keith: No, I don't have money. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Keith: Seol, what did you think? |
| Seol: I think Tom is strange? |
| Keith: Well, why is that? |
| Seol: He asked Mina whether she has money or not! |
| Keith: I don’t think he’s strange. I just think he’s not such a nice guy. |
| Seol: He should nice just like you. |
| Keith: Oh… |
| Seol: Oh. |
| Keith: Well, I’m not going to ask you if you have any money. I hope you don’t ask me, okay? |
| Seol: Yeah. Okay, okay. |
| Keith: Because I don’t have any. All right. Well, let’s jump into the vocab. The first word we have is... |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Seol: 어서오십시오 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: This is actually phrase which means “welcome”. |
| Seol: 어서오십시오 [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 어서오십시오 [natural native speed]. |
| Keith: Okay. You’ll going to be hearing this all the time if you are in Korea, any store you walk into. Not even a store. If you walk in a department store and they have different boots, you’re going to hear this thing, like, 50 times, right? |
| Seol: Yes. |
| Keith: It kind of gets a little annoying, right? |
| Seol: Also 어서오세요. too. |
| Keith: That’s right. 어서오세요 and 어서오십시오. 어서오십시오 is more formal than 어서오세요, but they’re still both very polite. |
| Seol: Right. |
| Keith: So you’re going to be hearing this all the time if you are in Korea. It just means “welcome”. The next word we have is… |
| Seol: 비싸다 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: To be expensive. |
| Seol: 비싸다 [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 비싸다 [natural native speed]. |
| Keith: Now this is adjective but it’s used just like a verb. It’s conjugated in the same ways and the same patterns. So if you know how to conjugate a verb, you know how to conjugate an adjective. So, once again, “to be expensive.” The next word we have is.. |
| Seol: 싸다 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: To be cheap. |
| Seol: 싸다 [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 싸다 [natural native speed]. |
| Keith: Once again, this is an adjective but this is used almost exactly the same as a verb. It’s conjugated in almost exactly the same ways, almost the same usage, very very similar – “to be expensive” and “to be cheap.” They’re almost the same, just one tiny difference in the beginning. So Seol, can you give us “to be expensive”? |
| Seol: 비싸다 |
| Keith: “To be cheap.” |
| Seol: 싸다 |
| Keith: That little 비 in front makes it expensive. |
| Seol: Yes. |
| Keith: Okay. And everything else is cheap, okay? 싸다 is cheap; 비싸다is expensive. The last word we have is… |
| Seol: 돈 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Money. |
| Seol: 돈 [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 돈 [natural native speed]. |
Lesson focus |
| Keith: All right. Let’s take a deeper look at these words in context. So let’s go through the conversation. The first line we have is… |
| Seol: 어서오십시오 |
| Keith: “Welcome”. Once again, you’ll be hearing this all the time in stores. Next is 네. Typically 네 means “yes”, but in this context it doesn’t really mean “yes.” It’s just kind of like “okay”, “yeah”. It doesn’t have any specific meaning; he’s just acknowledging the other person. So he’s not necessarily being rude but he’s not being nice either. He’s just acknowledging the other person. Okay. The next line we have is… |
| Seol: 톰씨. 여기 비쌉니다. |
| Keith: Okay, the first part we have is.. |
| Seol: 톰 |
| Keith: “Tom” followed by… |
| Seol: 씨 |
| Keith: The honorific suffix. After that is… |
| Seol: 여기 |
| Keith: “Here” followed by… |
| Seol: 비쌉니다. |
| Keith: “To be expensive.” So literally we have “Tom here expensive.” “Tom, it’s expensive here.” Now, 비쌉니다, this is in the formal politeness level. So as we’re trying to ease you into standard politeness level and intimate politeness level, let’s hear the standard politeness level. |
| Seol: |
| Keith: “To be expensive”, standard politeness. How about the intimate? |
| Seol: 비싸요. |
| Keith: “To be expensive”, intimate politeness level. If you guys don’t know the difference between formal, standard, and intimate politeness levels, be sure to check out KoreanClass101.com. There’s a write-up in the learning center which has all the information on politeness levels and honorifics. All right. In the next line, Tom says 미나씨, 여기 쌉니다. 돈이 없습니까? This guy, Tom, I don’t like him. |
| Seol: I don’t like him either. |
| Keith: Yeah. Just in case you guys aren’t following along, we’ll break it down for you. The first part we have is… |
| Seol: 미나. |
| Keith: “Mina “ followed by… |
| Seol: 씨. |
| Keith: The honorific suffix. After that is… |
| Seol: 여기 |
| Keith: Here… |
| Seol: 쌉니다. |
| Keith: “Cheap.” So “Mina, here cheap.” “Mina, it’s cheap here.” The next line we have is… |
| Seol: 돈이 없습니까? |
| Keith: Okay, let’s break that down. The first word is…. |
| Seol: 돈 |
| Keith: “Money” followed by… |
| Seol: 이 |
| Keith: The subject marking particle. And after that is… |
| Seol: 없습니까? |
| Keith: “To not have” in the question form. So here it’s “Money not have?” “You don’t have money?” Now what kind of question is that? |
| Seol: I don’t like him! |
| Keith: Yeah. He’s… |
| Seol: Oh. |
| Keith: Have you ever heard that in your life? Like, somebody just… |
| Seol: No. No. |
| Keith: Yeah, right? Yeah. This guy is not a good guy. I hope you never meet a guy like this. |
| Seol: Yeah. And now I understand why Mina was so reluctant about him asking. |
| Keith: Yes. Yes. She knows what kind of guy he is. |
| Seol: Yes. |
| Keith: All right. And the last line we have is… |
| Seol: 네. 없습니다. |
| Keith: Wow, Mina’s a really good sport, right? 네 없습니다. “Yes, I don’t have.” Mina’s being a real good sport about this. I like Mina. She’s a good girl. She knows what she’s doing. But this guy, Tom, he’s got to go. |
| Seol: Yeah. |
Outro |
| Keith: Well, that’s going to do it for today. Be sure to stop by at KoreanClass101.com. There you’ll find a PDF. We’ll have all the politeness levels for you over there and sample sentences for 싸다, 비싸다 – “to be expensive”, “to be cheap.” And if you check out the learning center, there’s tons of resources to bring all of this together. See you later, which in Korean is? |
| Seol: 안녕! |
| Keith: See you! |
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