Learn how to greet your coworkers after a long weekend
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Becky: Hi everyone, and welcome back to KoreanClass101.com. This is Business Korean for Beginners Season 1 Lesson 5 - Talking About Your Long Weekend in Korean. Becky here. |
| Kyejin: 안녕하세요. I'm Kyejin. |
| Becky: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to greet your co-worker on a Monday morning after a long weekend. The conversation takes place at an office. |
| Kyejin: It's between Linda and her co-worker, Ms. Choi. |
| Becky: The speakers are co-workers. For the most part they are speaking formal Korean, but sprinkle in informal expressions here and there. Okay, let's listen to the conversation. |
Lesson conversation |
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| Linda: 연희씨 좋은 아침이에요. |
| Choi: 린다씨, 안녕하세요. |
| Linda: 연휴는 어땠어요? |
| Choi: 제주도에 다녀왔어요. |
| Linda: 와, 제주도요? 제주도는 어땠어요? |
| Becky: Listen to the conversation one time slowly. |
| Linda: 연희씨 좋은 아침이에요. |
| Choi: 린다씨, 안녕하세요. |
| Linda: 연휴는 어땠어요? |
| Choi: 제주도에 다녀왔어요. |
| Linda: 와, 제주도요? 제주도는 어땠어요? |
| Becky: Listen to the conversation with the English translation. |
| Linda: Yeonhui, good morning. |
| Choi: Hi, Linda. |
| Linda: How was your long weekend? |
| Choi: I went to Jeju island. |
| Linda: Oh Jeju island! How was it? |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Becky: Kyejin, what's the biggest holiday season in Korea? |
| Kyejin: That would be the summer vacation season, or in Korean, 여름 휴가 시즌. This occurs generally during August, when people tend to take five days or a week away from work to take a trip. |
| Becky: This isn’t a national holiday, so people have to use up their paid leave vacations days, right? |
| Kyejin: That’s true. As for 연휴, or long weekends, we have the New Year’s season, 설 연휴, and the Korean Thanksgiving season, 추석연휴. We usually get four or five day-weekends during these holidays. |
| Becky: Aren’t these days mostly used for visiting family? |
| Kyejin: That used to be the case, but nowadays some people see their family before or after the holiday season, and take the long weekend around the holiday season, or 연휴, to do something else instead. |
| Becky: I see. Okay, now onto the vocab. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Becky: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary from this lesson. The first word is.. |
| Kyejin: 연휴 [natural native speed] |
| Becky: consecutive holidays |
| Kyejin: 연휴 [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Kyejin: 연휴 [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Kyejin: 어땠어요? [natural native speed] |
| Becky: how was something? |
| Kyejin: 어땠어요? [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Kyejin: 어땠어요? [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Kyejin: 와! [natural native speed] |
| Becky: wow |
| Kyejin: 와! [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Kyejin: 와! [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Kyejin: 제주도 [natural native speed] |
| Becky: Jeju Island |
| Kyejin: 제주도 [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Kyejin: 제주도 [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Kyejin: 좋은 [natural native speed] |
| Becky: good |
| Kyejin: 좋은 [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Kyejin: 좋은 [natural native speed] |
| : Lastly: |
| Kyejin: 아침 [natural native speed] |
| Becky: morning |
| Kyejin: 아침 [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Kyejin: 아침 [natural native speed] |
| KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES |
| Becky: Let's have a closer look at some of the words and phrases from this lesson. The word for this lesson is.. |
| Kyejin: 연휴 |
| Becky: which means “consecutive holidays.” |
| Kyejin: 연휴 consists of two Chinese characters. 연 means “consecutive” and 휴 means “rest” or “day off.” |
| Becky: Listeners, note that this word isn’t used in reference to Saturday and Sunday, which are the days you ordinarily have off each week. |
| Kyejin: Right. If a national holiday falls on a Monday, though, and you have a long weekend, you can call it 연휴. |
| Becky: Using this word, you can communicate how many holidays there are in a row. |
| Kyejin: For example, you can say “three-day holiday,” 3일 연휴. |
| Becky: What is the difference in this case? |
| Kyejin: I added 3일 which means “three-day.” |
| Becky: So how do you say “five days off” then? |
| Kyejin: Replace 삼(3), “three,” with 5(오), which means “five.” 5일 연휴. |
| Becky: Can you give us an example using 연휴? |
| Kyejin: Sure. For example, you can say.. 연휴에 제주도에 다녀왔어요. |
| Becky: ..which means “On this long holiday, I went traveling to Jeju island." Okay, now onto the lesson focus. |
Lesson focus |
| Becky: In this lesson, you will learn how to ask your co-workers about their time away during the holidays. In our dialogue, Linda asked Ms. Choi… |
| Kyejin: 연휴는 어땠어요? |
| Becky: which means “How was your long weekend?” Let's break down this sentence. First we have... |
| Kyejin: 연휴 |
| Becky: “consecutive holidays.” |
| Kyejin:는 |
| Becky: a topic marking particle. |
| Kyejin: 어땠어요? |
| Becky: “how was” |
| Becky: So altogether… |
| Kyejin: 연휴는 어땠어요? |
| Becky: “How were your consecutive holidays?” or “How was your long weekend?” |
| Kyejin: The sentence structure used here is [something]은 어땠어요? |
| Becky: “How was [something]?” Listeners, if you know this pattern, you can ask, “How was your weekend?” |
| Kyejin: “weekend” is 주말 in Korean. |
| Becky: So… |
| Kyejin: 주말은 어땠어요? |
| Becky: “How was your weekend?” Let’s practice using this sentence pattern some more using other examples. How would you say “How was your summer vacation?” |
| Kyejin: Summer vacation is 여름휴가. But here, 여름휴가 ends in a vowel, so you need to use the particle 는 instead of 은. |
| Becky: “How was your summer vacation?” is? |
| Kyejin: 여름휴가는 어땠어요? In the dialogue, we translated 여름휴가 as “YOUR summer vacation,” even though Linda didn’t say the word 당신의, which means “your.” In Korean, you don’t often say 당신의; rather, it is usually implied. So if you want to talk to someone about their summer holiday, for example, just say 여름휴가 to mean “YOUR summer holiday.” 당신의 여름휴가는 어땠어요? wouldn’t sound natural. |
| Becky: Listeners, this lesson’s sentence structure is very useful for a variety of contexts. You can use it to ask how events, places and many other things were. |
| Kyejin: Let me give you some sample sentences. 부산은 어땠어요? |
| Becky: “How was Busan?” |
| Kyejin: 그 영화는 어땠어요? |
| Becky: “How was the movie?” |
Outro |
| Becky: Okay, that’s all for this lesson. Thank you for listening, everyone, and we’ll see you next time! Bye! |
| Kyejin: 다음 시간에 만나요! |
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