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| INTRODUCTION |
| Seol: ์๋ ํ์ธ์. ์ค์ค์ ๋๋ค. |
| Keith: Keith here! Intros, intros, intros. Wow, we canโt seem to get enough of these, huh? Well, Seol, do you like what you know about me so far? |
| Seol: Well, what kind of answer do you want to hear? Yes or no? |
| Keith: Yes, I want to hear โyes.โ |
| Seol: Okay, then โyes.โ Thatโs why you looked really tired. |
| Keith: Okay. What do you know about me so far? |
| Seol: I know your name is Keith and I know that youโre a student, too. |
| Keith: Okay. Seol, what else do you want to know about me? |
| Seol: I want to know where youโre from, I want to know how old you are, and I want to know whether you have a girlfriend or not. |
| Keith: Oh, wow, you are interested in me. |
| Seol: Thatโs what the script says. |
| Keith: Ouch. You donโt have to be so honest. Youโre stabbing me in my heart. |
| Seol: Iโm sorry. But thatโs really whatโs the script says. |
| Keith: Okay. Well, Iโm a little heartbroken now so now letโs go to script. |
| Seol: Okay. Thatโs a good idea. |
Lesson conversation |
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| Keith: ์๋ ํ์ธ์? Keith์ ๋๋ค. ์ฒ์ ๋ต๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Seol: ์๋ ํ์ธ์? ์ค์ค์ ๋๋ค. ์ฒ์ ๋ต๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. Keith ์จ๋ ์ด๋ ๋๋ผ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๊น? |
| Keith: ์ ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. ์ค์ค ์จ๋ ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๊น? |
| Seol: ๋ค. ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Female: One more time, slowly. |
| Keith: ์๋ ํ์ธ์? Keith์ ๋๋ค. ์ฒ์ ๋ต๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Seol: ์๋ ํ์ธ์? ์ค์ค์ ๋๋ค. ์ฒ์ ๋ต๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. Keith ์จ๋ ์ด๋ ๋๋ผ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๊น? |
| Keith: ์ ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. ์ค์ค ์จ๋ ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๊น? |
| Seol: ๋ค. ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Seol: ์์ด๋ก ํ ๋ฒ ๋ |
| Keith: One more time with the English. |
| Keith: ์๋ ํ์ธ์? Keith์ ๋๋ค. ์ฒ์ ๋ต๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. โHello. Iโm Keith. Itโs nice to meet you.โ |
| Seol: ์๋ ํ์ธ์? ์ค์ค์ ๋๋ค. ์ฒ์ ๋ต๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Keith: Hello, how do you do? I am Yunseol. Itโs nice to meet you. |
| Seol: Keith ์จ๋ ์ด๋ ๋๋ผ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๊น? |
| Keith: Keith, what nationality are you? |
| Keith: ์ ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. โIโm American.โ ์ค์ค ์จ๋ ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๊น? โYunseol, are you Korean?โ |
| Seol: ๋ค. ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Keith: Yes, I am. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Keith: Seol, what did you think of the lesson? |
| Seol: I like it because I want to know where youโre from. |
| Keith: Okay, Iโm from America. And? |
| Seol: Iโm from Korean. |
| Keith: Okay. Nice to meet you. |
| Seol: Nice to meet you. |
| Keith: Again. All right, letโs take a look at the vocab. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Seol: ํ๊ตญ [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Korea. |
| Seol: ํ๊ตญ [slowly - broken down by syllable]. ํ๊ตญ [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Next isโฆ |
| Seol: ๋ฏธ๊ตญ [natural native speed] |
| Keith: America. |
| Seol: ๋ฏธ๊ตญ [slowly - broken down by syllable]. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ [natural native speed]. |
| Keith: Next isโฆ |
| Seol: ์ด๋ [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Which or which one? |
| ์ด๋ [slowly - broken down by syllable]. ์ด๋ [natural native speed]. |
| Keith: Next we haveโฆ |
| Seol: ๋๋ผ [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Country. |
| Seol: ๋๋ผ [slowly - broken down by syllable]. ๋๋ผ [natural native speed]. |
| Keith: And lastly we haveโฆ |
| Seol: ์ฌ๋ [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Person or people. |
| ์ฌ๋ [slowly - broken down by syllable]. ์ฌ๋ [natural native speed]. |
Lesson focus |
| Keith: Okay. Seol, can you please give us the word for Korea again? |
| Seol: ํ๊ตญ |
| Keith: And what about America? |
| Seol: ๋ฏธ๊ตญ |
| Keith: Okay. If you notice at the end, they both end in ๊ตญ. What does that mean exactly? |
| Seol: โCountry. โ |
| Keith: It means โCountriesโ. So what other countries are there that end in ๊ตญ? |
| Seol: ์๊ตญ. |
| Keith: Thatโs England. |
| Seol: ์ค๊ตญ. |
| Keith: China. These are pretty much it for the countries that end in ๊ตญ? |
| Seol: Yes. |
| Keith: Okay. So what all the other countries? |
| Seol: We take the English name and, like, make Korean pronunciation. |
| Keith: Okay. For example? |
| Seol: ์บ๋๋ค. |
| Keith: Canada. |
| Seol: ์บ/๋/๋ค. ์ธ๋ |
| Keith: Thatโs India. |
| Seol: ์ธ/๋. ํ๋์ค |
| Keith: France. |
| Seol: ํ๋์ค / ์ค์์ค |
| Keith: Switzerland. |
| Seol: ์ค์์ค / ์ผ๋ณธ |
| Keith: Japan. |
| Seol: ์ผ๋ณธ / ์ค์คํธ๋ ์ผ๋ฆฌ์ |
| Keith: Australia. |
| Seol: ์ค์คํธ๋ ์ผ๋ฆฌ์ / ๋ด์ง๋๋ |
| Keith: New Zealand. |
| Seol: ๋ด์ง๋๋. |
| Keith: Weโve covered a bunch of countries and now weโre ready to talk about nationalities, which brings us to our grammar point. Okay. So in the conversation, Seol saidโฆ |
| Seol: ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Keith: Okay, letโs take a more in-depth look at this sentence. What do we have first? |
| Seol: ์ |
| Keith: This means โIโ. After that isโฆ |
| Seol: ๋ |
| Keith: This is, once again, the topic marking particle. |
| Seol: ํ๊ตญ |
| Keith: Korea. |
| Seol: ์ฌ๋ |
| Keith: Person. |
| Seol: ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Keith: Am. So if we put it all together, what we literally have is โI Korea person am.โ When translated, it means โI am Korean.โ And with this, we can do this with any country. We can just replace ํ๊ตญ, which is Korea, with any country. And in my case, I did ์ ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. โI American person am.โ โI am American.โ If you notice the difference between Seol and me, the only difference is the country. The country for Seol wasโฆ |
| Seol: ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Keith: ํ๊ตญ, thatโs Korea. And for me, ์ ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. The only thing that changes here is the country. In Seolโs case, it was โKorea person.โ In my case, itโs โAmerica person.โ And we can do this with any country, once again. So how would you say โI am Canadianโ? |
| Seol: ์ ๋ ์บ๋๋ค์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Keith: Notice once again, the sentence is exactly the same. The only difference is the country is Canada. Okay, letโs do a couple more examples. Chinese. |
| Seol: ์ ๋ ์ค๊ตญ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Keith: ์ค๊ตญ is the Korean word for China. Once again itโs โChina personโ, โIโm Chinese.โ English. |
| Seol: ์ ๋ ์๊ตญ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Keith: ์๊ตญ is England, and once again, person English. Australian. |
| Seol: ์ ๋ ์ค์คํธ๋ ์ผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Keith: Australian person. Australian. Whatโs the one last one? New Zealand. |
| Seol: ์ ๋ ๋ด์ง๋๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Keith: New Zealand person, a person from New Zealand. Now, this is why I love Korean. This is so easy. You just have to know the country and you can just say โpersonโ after that and there you go, you go the nationality. Now if you wanted to ask someone about their nationality, you can sayโฆ |
| Seol: ์ด๋ ๋๋ผ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๊น? |
| Keith: This pretty much ask โwhatโs your nationality?โ Whatโs the first part we have? |
| Seol: ์ด๋ |
| Keith: This means โwhichโ or โwhich one.โ After that? |
| Seol: ๋๋ผ |
| Keith: โCountry.โ Right after that we haveโฆ |
| Seol: ์ฌ๋ |
| Keith: โPerson.โ Up to here, we have โwhich country person.โ And lastly, we haveโฆ |
| Seol: ์ ๋๊น? |
| Keith: The interrogative form of the copula. Once again, we have โwhich country person are you?โ And we translate this as โWhat nationality are you?โ So just to review, letโs get into this a little bit. Letโs do a little role-playing. How about that? |
| Keith: ์ค ์จ๋ ์ด๋ ๋๋ผ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๊น? |
| Seol: ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Keith: Are you sure? For real? |
| Seol: I think I am. |
| Keith: I donโt think so. |
| Seol: Oh, really? |
| Keith: No. |
| Seol: ์ ๋ ์ผ๋ณธ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Keith: Okay. ์ผ๋ณธ์ฌ๋. That means โI am Japanese.โ |
| Seol: ํค์ค์จ๋ ์ด๋ ๋๋ผ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๊น? |
| Keith: Well, I like Canada. They have a good socialist system. ์ ๋ ์บ๋๋ค์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Seol: Really? |
| Keith: Well, I like Canada but originally Iโm from New York, so ์ ๋ ๋ด์ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Seol: But New York is not a country. |
| Keith: Itโs a totally different entity. Everyone there is โthe bomb.โ |
| Seol: Okay. |
Outro |
| Keith: So thatโs going to do it for today. See you later, which in Korean isโฆ |
| Seol: ์๋ ! |
| Keith: See you! |
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