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| INTRODUCTION |
| Seol: 안녕하세요. 윤설입니다. |
| Minkyong: 안녕하세요. 민경입니다. |
| Keith: Hi Keith here. Your Hands. Seol, your hands are so beautiful. |
| Seol: Thank you but you are not looking at my hands. |
| Keith: No I know. I memorized. |
| Seol: Yeah thank you. |
| Minkyong: 작업 거시는 거예요? |
| Seol: 어, 그런가 봐요. |
| Keith: Wait! What’s that word? |
| Minkyong: 작업을 걸다 |
| Keith: To make a move. What’s a typical move with Koreans like what kind of moves do Korean men or women make? |
| Seol: 어 Keith 오늘 멋있다. 저녁이나 같이 먹을래? |
| Keith: It’s always food right? 저녁이나 같이 먹을래? Do you want to eat dinner? |
| Seol: And it’s really hard to turn him down. |
| Minkyong: Yeah 저녁은 어차피 먹는거니까. |
| Keith: I got to eat any way. Why not eat with somebody? Okay make a move. Well today we are going back to our conversation with 민수 and 수진 and what happened in our previous conversations? What’s going on? Where is this taking place? |
| Minkyong: There was a 그룹 미팅 |
| Keith: 미팅 The Korean Group Line Date. |
| Minkyong: 민수 and 수진 really liked each other and they started talking and 수진 lied about what she does on the weekend. She said she read and exercise and go golfing. |
| Keith: Probably you do right? |
| Minkyong: Yes, yes I can golf. I am a golfer. |
| Keith: Lies. |
| Minkyong: Yeah she lied just like me but she really sleeps on weekends. |
| Keith: So 민수 invited her out to go golfing and now |
| Seol: 민수 said 얼굴에 뭔가 묻었어요. |
| Keith: You got something on your face. And now we are finishing up our series today with 수진 and 민수 and who else? |
| Seol: 보라 |
| Keith: And because this is a group meeting, they are probably all sitting next to each other but 보라 butts her way into this conversation. So what kind of language are they using? |
| Seol: 수진 and 보라 are friends. So they speak in casual Korean 반말 but it’s their first time meeting each other. So they speak 존댓말. |
| Keith: Polite language. Okay so let’s listen in. |
| DIALOGUE |
| 수진: 어머, 어머... 내 거울... 아 창피해. |
| 보라: 수진아. 니 얼굴에 뭐 묻었어. |
| 수진: 알아! |
| 보라: 여기! 내 거울. |
| 민수: 오... 보라 씨. 보라 씨의 거울은 예뻐요. |
| 보라: 네? |
| 민수: 오... 보라 씨... 보라 씨의 손도 예뻐요. |
| Seol: 이번에는 영어로 |
| 수진: 어머, 어머... 내 거울... 아 창피해. |
| Keith: Oh my. Oh my. My mirror. Oh, I'm so embarrassed! |
| 보라: 수진아. 니 얼굴에 뭐 묻었어. |
| Keith: Suin, you have something on your face. |
| 수진: 알아! |
| Keith: I know! |
| 보라: 여기! 내 거울. |
| Keith: Here. My mirror. |
| 민수: 오... 보라 씨. 보라 씨의 거울은 예뻐요. |
| Keith: Oh, Bora, your mirror is pretty. |
| 보라: 네? |
| Keith: Excuse me? |
| 민수: 오... 보라 씨... 보라 씨의 손도 예뻐요. |
| Keith: Oh, Bora, your hands are pretty, too. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Keith: All right so how do you feel about the conversation? |
| Seol: 민수 이상해요. |
| Keith: Why? What’s so strange about him? |
| Seol: I feel that 민수 likes 수진 but here he sounds like he likes 보라. |
| Minkyong: 보라한테 작업을 걸어요. |
| Keith: Yeah he made a move on 보라 big time. Alright, so let’s move on to the vocab. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Keith: First word we have is |
| Minkyong: 어머 |
| Keith: Oh my! Oh dear. |
| Minkyong: 어머 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 어머 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Now this word is used 100% by women, females. |
| Seol: 네. |
| Keith: Why is that? |
| Seol: It’s a female word. |
| Keith: Yeah it’s just something that men don’t say. |
| Seol: Yeah. |
| Keith: So for example |
| Seol: 어머 지각이다! |
| Keith: Oh my, I am late. Oh dear, I am late. It doesn’t sound very manly in English either. So how did it come out in today’s conversation? |
| Seol: 수진 says 어머, 어머... 내 거울... |
| Keith: Why does she say 어머 oh my, oh dear. |
| Seol: She was surprised, she was bewildered because she was pointing out that something is on her face. |
| Keith: Yeah so she was embarrassed and oh no, oh my, oh dear, what do I do? Actually that kind of translates still right? What do I do kind of |
| Seol: Yeah 어머 어떡해! |
| Keith: Actually yeah those two kind of go together also right. |
| Seol: It’s kind of a set phrase 어머 어떡해. |
| Keith: Oh my! What do I do! Okay let’s move on to our next word. |
| Minkyong: 거울 |
| Keith: Mirror. |
| Minkyong: 거울 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 거울 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: And next we have |
| Minkyong: 창피하다 |
| Keith: To be embarrassed. |
| Minkyong: 창피하다 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 창피하다 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Now let’s go over this word really quickly. 창피하다 means to be embarrassed. Now I think the best way to explain this word is to give a situation. |
| Seol: 제가 넘어졌어요. |
| Keith: You fell. |
| Seol: 창피해요. |
| Keith: I am embarrassed. Okay can we have a little more? Actually that’s so simple. |
| Seol: 예를 들어서요. Okay, okay. 시험에서 60점을 받았어요. |
| Keith: You got a 60 on a test. |
| Seol: 친구들은 다 100점이에요. |
| Keith: All your friends got a 100. |
| Seol: 창피해요. |
| Keith: You are embarrassed. So you never 창피해 when you are by yourself. |
| Seol: Yeah you are right. |
| Keith: And this word is used mostly when you are with other people because you are embarrassed of what other people think or what other people see. |
| Seol: 네 맞아요. |
| Keith: So in 수진’s case, why was she so embarrassed? Obviously |
| Seol: 민수 was looking at her, no? |
| Keith: Yeah, yeah but there was something else. |
| Minkyong: Because she had something on her face. |
| Keith: Yeah. |
| Minkyong: 얼굴에 뭐가 묻어서요. |
| Keith: And another thing I want to cover about this word is that 창피하다 is often pronounced as |
| Seol: 챙피하다 |
| Keith: Yeah but same thing. |
| Seol: Exactly the same. |
| Keith: All right let’s move on to the next word. |
| Minkyong: 묻었다 |
| Keith: To be covered, to have been stuck. |
| Minkyong: 묻었다 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 묻었다 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Now this is in the passive form of the verb |
| Minkyong: 묻다 |
| Keith: To stick, to cover and let’s cover this word a little later. Next we have |
| Minkyong: 제 |
| Keith: My, humbling. |
| Minkyong: 제 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 제 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: After that |
| Minkyong: 내 |
| Keith: My, intimate. |
| Minkyong: 내 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 내 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: And after that |
| Minkyong: 니 |
| Keith: Your, intimate. |
| Minkyong: 니 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 니 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: And finally we have |
| Minkyong: 손 |
| Keith: Hand |
| Minkyong: 손 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 손 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Today’s grammar point is also part of our vocabulary. So let’s go over it really quickly. |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| Keith: And this is actually two things combined into one. What's the first part? |
| Minkyong: 저 |
| Keith: I, the first person pronoun, humbly. Now we add on the possessive particle. |
| Minkyong: 의 |
| Keith: And we have? |
| Mnkyong: 저의 |
| Keith: This is usually contracted into? |
| Minkyong: 제 |
| Keith: The same thing happens for "my" and "your" in the intimate politeness level. What's "I" in the intimate politeness level? |
| Minkyong: 나 |
| Keith: Then we add? |
| Minkyong: 의 |
| Keith: The possessive particle, and we have? |
| Minkyong: 나의 |
| Keith: Then that contracts to? |
| Minkyong: 내 |
| Keith: My. The same thing actually happens for "your". So what's you? |
| Minkyong: 너 |
| Keith: And the possessive particle? |
| Minkyong: 의 |
| Keith: And now we have? |
| Minkyong: 너의 |
| Keith: And this contracts to? |
| Minkyong: 네 |
| Keith: Yeah, but nobody ever says that. You're tricking us. |
| Minkyong: Not on purpose. We usually say 니. |
| Keith: Yeah, and the reason for that is because-- What's "my" again? |
| Seol: 내 |
| Keith: And "your" the actual pronunciation is? |
| Seol: 네 |
| Keith: Yeah, it's the same thing. |
| Seol: It's 95% the same. |
| Keith: I can't tell the difference. |
| Seol: I cannot. |
| Keith: Yeah, so basically, they're supposed to have the same pronunciation, but we just changed "your" to... |
| Seol: 니 |
| Keith: But in writing... |
| Seol: It should be still 네. |
| Keith: Yeah, but the spelling between "my" and "your" is a little different, but remember the actual spoken "my" and "your" is... |
| Seol: 내 and 니 |
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Lesson focus |
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| Seol: 제 친구예요. |
| Keith: How about this is my friend in casual language? |
| Minkyong: 내 친구야. |
| Keith: Notice how 제 is replaced with |
| Minkyong: 내 |
| Keith: And once again the politeness level is determined by the copula. |
| Seol: 예요 and 야 |
| Keith: Yeah so in today’s conversation, what did we have? |
| Seol: 내 거울 |
| Keith: My mirror. |
| Seol: She is talking to herself. So she doesn’t have to use the humble one. |
| Keith: Yeah. So what was the move that 민수 made? |
| Seol: 보라씨의 거울은 예뻐요. |
| Keith: 보라씨 your mirror is pretty. |
| Seol: And he also says 보라씨의 손도 예뻐요. |
| Keith: 보라 Your hands are also pretty. Now we had 네 your mirror. What’s your mirror is pretty in the intimate politeness level? |
| Seol: 네 거울은 예뻐. |
| Keith: Your mirror is pretty and your hand is pretty. |
| Seol: 네 손은 예뻐. |
| Keith: But here they are in a formal situation. They just met for the first time. So how do we have your informal language? |
| Minkyong: So we usually call the person’s name and plus 의 |
| Keith: The possessive particle because saying you in a formal situation is |
| Seol: It’s awkward. I’ve never heard somebody was calling you 당신. |
| Keith: Yeah actually that’s the formal language or polite kind of. |
| Seol: This is the textbook language. |
| Keith: Yeah 당신의 |
| Seol: 손은 예뻐요. |
| Keith: Yeah but no one says that. |
| Seol: Oh no never. |
| Keith: Yeah like we said it’s instead of using 당신 you a lot of Koreans |
| Seol: Call that person’s name. |
| Keith: Plus the possessive particle 의 |
| Seol: Yes. |
| Keith: In a formal context, we just complement each other. We love each other at Korean class. |
| Seol: Yeah. |
| Seol: Yeah I love you guys so… |
| Keith: 민경씨의 머리는 예뻐요. Your hair is pretty. |
| Minkyong: Thank you. 언니의 눈은 예뻐요. |
| Keith: Your eyes are pretty. |
| Seol: Thank you. Keith의 머리는 귀여워요. |
| Keith: Why do you hesitate? |
| Seol: I have to compliment you and I was just you know… |
| Keith: Looking for something to say |
| Seol: Yeah. |
Outro |
| Keith: Okay well that’s going to do it for today. Remember to stop by KoreanClass101.com and leave us a comment. Say hi. |
| Seol: 자, 포스트 꼭 남기세요. |
| Minkyong: 안녕. |
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