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| INTRODUCTION |
| Miseon: 안녕하세요, 여러분. KoreanClass101.com입니다. |
| Hyunwoo: Hyunwoo here. Beginner Series, Season 5, Lesson #5. The More You Study This Korean Lesson, The More You Will Love It. Hello and welcome to the Beginner Series, Season 5 at KoreanClass101.com where we study modern Korean in a fun, educational format. |
| Miseon: So brush up on the Korean that you started learning long ago or start learning today. |
| Hyunwoo: Thanks for being here with us for this lesson. Miseon |
| Miseon: 네. |
| Hyunwoo: What are we going to have a look at in this lesson? |
| Miseon: Today in this lesson, we will learn how to say the more A, the more B in Korean. |
| Hyunwoo: Great and where does this conversation take place? |
| Miseon: This conversation takes place at school. |
| Hyunwoo: At school. My favorite place to be in the world. |
| Miseon: No! 학교 아니에요. |
| Hyunwoo: The conversation is between |
| Miseon: Two close friends. |
| Hyunwoo: Therefore the speakers will be speaking |
| Miseon: Intimate Korean 반말이요. |
| Hyunwoo: Yes and if you are listening on an iPod |
| Miseon: Or an iTouch or iPhone |
| Hyunwoo: Click the center button of the iPod or tap the screen of your iTouch or iPhone to see the notes for this lesson while you listen. |
| Miseon: Read along while you listen. |
| Hyunwoo: This technique will help you remember faster. Okay let’s listen to the dialogue. |
| Miseon: Move on. |
| DIALOGUE |
| A: 뭐 해? 또 이 책 읽어? |
| B: 왜? 이 책 진짜 재밌어. |
| A: 지금 몇 번째 읽고 있어? |
| B: 하하. 열 번째. 읽으면 읽을 수록 재밌어. |
| A: 이해할 수 없어... 정말. |
| B: 너는 그거 뭐야? |
| A: 아, 이거? 수학책이야. |
| B: 수학책을 왜 갖고다녀? |
| A: 나는 수학 공부가 세상에서 제일 좋아. 공부하면 공부할수록 수학은 정말 매력적이야. |
| B: 너는 보면 볼수록... |
| A: 보면 볼수록 뭐! |
| B: 아니야. 너는 보면 볼수록 똑똑해! |
| A: 거짓말 하지 마! |
| A: mwo hae? tto i chaek ilgeo? |
| B: wae? i chaek jinjja jaemisseo. |
| A: jigeum myeot beonjjae ilkko isseo? |
| B: haha. yeol beonjjae. ilgeumyeon ilgeul surok jaemisseo. |
| A: ihaehal su eopseo... jeongmal. |
| B: neo-neun geugeo mwo-ya? |
| A: a, igeo? suhakchaek-iya. |
| B: suhakchaek-eul wae gatgo danyeo? |
| A: na-neun suhak gongbu-ga sesang-eseo jeil joa. gongbuhamyeon gongbuhalsurok suhak-eun jeongmal maeryeokjeok-iya. |
| B: neo-neun bomyeon bolsurok... |
| A: bomyeon bolsurok mwo! |
| B: aniya. neo-neun bomyeon bolsurok ttokttokhae! |
| A: geojitmal haji ma! |
| A: What are you doing? You're reading this book again? |
| B: Why? This book is really interesting. |
| A: How many times have you read this book so far? |
| B: Haha. This is the tenth time. The more I read it, the more interesting it is. |
| A: I really can't understand you. |
| B: What about you? What's that? |
| A: Oh, this? It's my mathematics book. |
| B: Why are you carrying your mathematics book around? |
| A: I like studying mathematics more than anything in the world. The more I study it, the more attractive it is. |
| B: The more I see you, the more... |
| A: The more what! |
| B: Nothing. The more I see you, the more I think you are intelligent. |
| A: Don't lie! |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Hyunwoo: 미선씨, what was your favorite school subject in high school? |
| Miseon: Well believe it or not, I loved Math. |
| Hyunwoo: Math? |
| Miseon: Yeah. So I… |
| Hyunwoo: I believe you. |
| Miseon: You know actually I had a first award in the math contest when I was at high school. |
| Hyunwoo: Wow awesome! |
| Miseon: 네. |
| Hyunwoo: I can’t believe that. I mean, I believe you of course but it’s almost unbelievable. |
| Miseon: 근데 지금은 계산만 잘해요. |
| Hyunwoo: You are only good at calculating? |
| Miseon: Right. |
| Hyunwoo: Yeah all the mathematics class is gone. |
| Miseon: Right yeah but what about you? |
| Hyunwoo: Well I loved Science but I didn’t really like mathematics. So you know, it didn’t really match because the more you study science, the more you have to know mathematics to be good at it. |
| Miseon: Right. |
| Hyunwoo: Right? |
| Miseon: That’s true, right. |
| Hyunwoo: Yeah. |
| Miseon: But I am not good at science though yeah. |
| Hyunwoo: I only loved the theory part the imagining part, not the calculating part. |
| Miseon: Oh I see! Okay but I don’t think there was any subject that I could say the more I study, the more I like it. |
| Hyunwoo: You mean like in this conversation, huh? |
| Miseon: Right. |
| Hyunwoo: Many are there. Well I think science was like that to me but I couldn’t really say, the more I study, the more I like it. |
| Miseon: But I believe, we are going to learn how to say that in Korean in today’s lesson right? |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Hyunwoo: Bingo but before we do, let’s have a look at the vocab for this lesson. |
| Miseon: Okay. |
| Hyunwoo: 처음 단어는 |
| Miseon: 책 |
| Hyunwoo: Book. |
| Miseon: 책 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 책 [natural native speed] |
| Hyunwoo: 그 다음 단어는 |
| Miseon: 읽다 |
| Hyunwoo: To read. |
| Miseon: 읽다 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 읽다 [natural native speed] |
| Hyunwoo: 그리고 |
| Miseon: 진짜 |
| Hyunwoo: Really |
| Miseon: 진짜 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 진짜 [natural native speed] |
| Hyunwoo: Next |
| Miseon: 재미있다 |
| Hyunwoo: To be fun, to be interesting. |
| Miseon: 재미있다 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 재미있다 [natural native speed] |
| Hyunwoo: 그리고 |
| Miseon: 이해하다 |
| Hyunwoo: To understand. |
| Miseon: 이해하다 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 이해하다 [natural native speed] |
| Hyunwoo: 그리고 |
| Miseon: 수학 |
| Hyunwoo: Mathematics. |
| Miseon: 수학 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 수학 [natural native speed] |
| Hyunwoo: 그리고 |
| Miseon: 갖고 다니다 |
| Hyunwoo: To carry around. |
| Miseon: 갖고 다니다 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 갖고 다니다 [natural native speed] |
| Hyunwoo: 다음 단어는 |
| Miseon: 세상 |
| Hyunwoo: World, universe. |
| Miseon: 세상 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 세상 [natural native speed] |
| Hyunwoo: 그리고 |
| Miseon: 매력적이다 |
| Hyunwoo: To be attractive, to be charming. |
| Miseon: 매력적이다 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 매력적이다 [natural native speed] |
| Hyunwoo: 그리고 |
| Miseon: 똑똑하다 |
| Hyunwoo: To be smart, to be intelligent. |
| Miseon: 똑똑하다 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 똑똑하다 [natural native speed] |
| Hyunwoo: 마지막으로 |
| Miseon: 거짓말 |
| Hyunwoo: Lie. |
| Miseon: 거짓말 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 거짓말 [natural native speed] |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| Hyunwoo: Now let’s have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson. The first word we are going to have a look at is |
| Miseon: 이해하다 |
| Hyunwoo: To understand. |
| Miseon: 이해하다 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 이해하다 [natural native speed] |
| Hyunwoo: Now this word 이해하다 is often also used in the form 이해되다. |
| Miseon: 네. In fact you will hear 이해되다 more often in spoken Korean. |
| Hyunwoo: Yeah 이해되다 is like 이해 is done or 이해 is possible. |
| Miseon: 이해 means understanding. |
| Hyunwoo: So 이해하다 if you break it down, it literally means to do understanding and 이해되다 is understanding is done or understanding is possible. So 미선씨 when you want to ask a friend, did you understand what I am saying or did you understand that, how do you ask that question in Korean? |
| Miseon: 현우씨, 이해됐어? |
| Hyunwoo: Yeah that’s literally, was understanding done? And how you answer that? |
| Miseon: 응, 이해됐어. |
| Hyunwoo: Yes understanding was done literally. It’s weird to translate everything in you know, word by word but that’s the literal translation 이해됐어. Okay and that basically means yes I understood. I got you. |
| Miseon: Right. |
| Hyunwoo: Right. So what’s the next word we are looking at? |
| Miseon: Next word is 똑똑하다. |
| Hyunwoo: To be smart, to be clever like 미선씨. |
| Miseon: 감사합니다. 똑똑하다 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 똑똑하다 [natural native speed] |
| Hyunwoo: Well I was kind of waiting for you to say the same thing to me but okay I will just go on. |
| Miseon: No. |
| Hyunwoo: You don’t want to say I’m 똑똑하다 too? |
| Miseon: 현우씨, 아주 똑똑해요. |
| Hyunwoo: Now I am forcing you to say that. |
| Miseon: Right. Everybody 이해됐어요? |
| Hyunwoo: Well as long as our listeners got the meaning of this word 똑똑하다, that’s fine. I can sacrifice myself. |
| Miseon: Okay. |
| Hyunwoo: Well the meaning of this word is very clear to be smart but the sound of this word is very interesting I think. |
| Miseon: Yeah. 똑똑 |
| Hyunwoo: 똑똑 |
| Miseon: 똑똑 |
| Hyunwoo: Yeah it’s the same sound that we make with our mouth when we want to say knock, knock in Korean. |
| Miseon: Right. Can you hear? |
| Hyunwoo: 똑똑 |
| Miseon: Right. |
| Hyunwoo: So when I was very little like very, very little, my friends and I used to tap on each other’s head with our fist like knock, knock and pronounce 똑똑 with our mouth and say, 너 똑똑하다, right? You know, you are smart. I know it’s a very childish practical joke. |
| Miseon: 현우씨, with a fist? |
| Hyunwoo: Yeah. |
| Miseon: Really? |
| Hyunwoo: You didn’t used to do that? |
| Miseon: You know actually I used to do with one finger. |
| Hyunwoo: Ah I see. |
| Miseon: Yeah like it’s not like a 똑똑 but it’s like – more like a 틱틱 or something like that but with a fist, I can’t imagine. |
| Hyunwoo: I didn’t do that to girls. I only did that to you know, other boys like 똑똑. |
| Miseon: Aaha! Well one thing I remember actually in my childhood. This is really childish. |
| Hyunwoo: I see. |
| Miseon: If my friend doesn’t listen to me, then I actually tap her breast like 똑똑 and then 이해했어? or what are you doing? Something like that so…Well sorry 여러분, 미안해요. |
| Hyunwoo: You are apologizing to your friends? |
| Miseon: Right. |
| Hyunwoo: Well I guess what I did was… |
| Miseon: But it’s not like 똑똑해 but yeah still I used like 똑똑 sounds. |
| Hyunwoo: I see what you mean. |
| Miseon: 네. |
| Hyunwoo: So now everybody has an understanding of what [*] means. Okay now, I think it’s time to go to the grammar point of this lesson. |
| Miseon: 네. 갑시다 빨리. |
Lesson focus |
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| Hyunwoo: 네. What is the grammar point of this lesson? |
| Miseon: The grammar point of this lesson is how to say the more A, the more B using (으)면 (으)ㄹ수록 |
| Hyunwoo: As in the example. |
| Miseon: 읽으면 읽을수록 재미있어요. |
| Hyunwoo: The more I read it, the more interesting it gets. |
| Miseon: So when you want to say the more A, the more B in Korean, you can use the structure (으)면 (으)ㄹ수록. |
| Hyunwoo: For the part, the more A, in Korean, the same verb is repeated in the structure (으)면 (으)ㄹ수록 right? So you say the same verb twice in Korean. |
| Miseon: 네. but you change the form a little. So let’s have a look. It’s not too difficult. |
| Hyunwoo: It’s not too difficult. So 가다 becomes 가 plus 면 plus 가ㄹ수록. So 가면 갈수록. The more I go something, something. So remember this 면 (으)ㄹ수록. |
| Miseon: 네. And with 보다 to see, to look at, to watch, it becomes 보 plus 면 plus 보ㄹ수록 So it becomes 보면 볼수록 |
| Hyunwoo: The more I see it, something, something. So how was this used in the dialogue for this lesson? |
| Miseon: 읽으면 읽을수록 재밌어. |
| Hyunwoo: The more I read it, the more interesting it is. |
| Miseon: 공부하면 공부할수록 수학은 정말 매력적이야. |
| Hyunwoo: The more I study it, the more attractive it is. |
| Miseon: 너는 보면 볼수록 똑똑해. |
| Hyunwoo: Thank you. |
| Miseon: 네. |
| Hyunwoo: Okay sorry. The more I see you, the more I think you are intelligent. |
| Miseon: 저도 해주세요. |
| Hyunwoo: 미선씨는 보면 볼수록 예뻐요. |
| Miseon: 아 감사합니다. |
| Hyunwoo: Okay. Before we finish, let’s have a look at some more sample sentences to make it even clear for our listeners. |
| Miseon: Okay 좋아요. |
| Hyunwoo: So how do you say the more I think about it, the more jealous I feel? |
| Miseon: 생각하면 생각할수록 정말 부러워요. |
| Hyunwoo: Right. The more you see each other, the closer you will get. |
| Miseon: 자주 보면 볼수록 친해질 거예요. 그렇죠, 현우씨? |
| Hyunwoo: 그렇게 생각합니다. |
| Miseon: 네. |
| Hyunwoo: 네. And the last sample sentence that I would like to change into Korean is the more you use it, the more convenient it is. |
| Miseon: 쓰면 쓸수록 편해요. |
| Hyunwoo: Yeah that is Koreanclass101.com, the more you use it, the more convenient and useful it is. |
| Miseon: That’s awesome yeah. |
| Hyunwoo: Yes, KoreanClass101.com은 쓰면 쓸수록 |
| Miseon: 편해요. |
| Hyunwoo: 편리하고 유용해요. |
| Miseon: 네. 아주 편해요. |
| Hyunwoo: Right. |
| Miseon: 아주 편해요. |
Outro |
| Hyunwoo: 네. So that just about does it for today 미선씨. |
| Miseon: 네. |
| Hyunwoo: But before we go, we would like to remind our listeners that they can leave us a comment. |
| Miseon: Click the comment, leave the comment for us okay? |
| Hyunwoo: Yes, just say, 미선씨는 보면 볼수록 예뻐요 or… |
| Miseon: Please. |
| Hyunwoo: 현우씨는 보면 볼수록 멋져요 I will be waiting for that one. |
| Miseon: I will be waiting for that for me okay. |
| Hyunwoo: Well don’t worry. If nobody leaves a comment saying, you are 보면 볼수록 예뻐요, I will leave a comment for you. |
| Miseon: Okay thank you, thank you 여러분 you have to see my face. I am 정말 예뻐요. |
| Hyunwoo: I know. So everybody, thank you for listening. We will see you at KoreanClass101.com. So if you have any questions or feedback or anything. |
| Miseon: Please, please comment. |
| Hyunwoo: Comment on our site. We will see you at KoreanClass101.com. |
| Miseon: Okay 안녕히 계세요, 여러분. 오늘도 감사합니다. |
| Hyunwoo: 감사합니다. |
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