Learn how to talk about your daily routine in honorific Korean
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Michael: Can You Talk About Your Daily Routine in Korean? - Michael Here. |
| Suhyun: 안녕하세요. (Annyeonghaseyo.) I'm Suhyun. |
| Michael: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to talk about your daily routine in Korean. The conversation takes a place at a coffee shop. |
| Suhyun: It’s between Minho and Sujin. |
| Michael: The speakers are acquaintances, so they’ll be using honorific Korean. Okay, let's listen to the conversation. |
Lesson conversation |
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| 민호: 수진씨는 몇 시에 일어나요? |
| 수진: 저는 6시에 일어나고 7시에 학교에 가요. |
| 민호: 그러면 보통 몇 시에 저녁 식사를 먹어요? |
| 수진: 5시에 저녁 식사를 먹고 6시에 집에 가요. 민호씨는 저녁 식사를 언제 먹어요? |
| 민호: 저는 8시에 저녁 식사를 먹고 9시에 집에 가요. |
| Michael: Listen to the conversation one time slowly. |
| 민호: 수진씨는 몇 시에 일어나요? |
| 수진: 저는 6시에 일어나고 7시에 학교에 가요. |
| 민호: 그러면 보통 몇 시에 저녁 식사를 먹어요? |
| 수진: 5시에 저녁 식사를 먹고 6시에 집에 가요. 민호씨는 저녁 식사를 언제 먹어요? |
| 민호: 저는 8시에 저녁 식사를 먹고 9시에 집에 가요. |
| Michael:Listen to the conversation with the English translation. |
| Minho: Sujin, what time do you wake up? |
| Sujin: I wake up at 6 o'clock and go to school at 7 o'clock. |
| Minho: So when do you normally eat dinner? |
| Sujin: I eat dinner at 5 o'clock and go home at 6 o'clock. What time do you eat supper, Minho? |
| Minho: I eat dinner at 8 o'clock and go home at 9 o'clock. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Michael: Suhyun, how do Korean people usually start their day? |
| Suhyun: I think it’s common to see people getting to work by 9 in the morning. You’ll see a lot of people taking the subway to work, or getting on a bus in the morning. |
| Michael: Instead of driving their car? |
| Suhyun: That’s right. Most bus routes have lanes for buses only, so that taking the bus takes less time than driving a car. |
| Michael: I heard that in Korea, it’s not common to find a company that offers flexible working hours, and most start at 9 a.m. |
| Suhyun: That’s one of the reasons many Korean people have the same daily cycle. They wake up at 6 or 7, and get to work by 9 in the morning. |
| Michael: And if you get a chance to visit a busy subway station between 7 and 9 in the morning, you will see a lot of people wearing suits waiting in lines. |
| Suhyun: They’re all waiting for the shuttle buses they take to work. Some major companies run shuttle buses from subway stations, especially when their offices are located outside Seoul. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Michael: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary from this lesson. The first word is.. |
| Suhyun: 일어나다 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: to get up, to wake up |
| Suhyun: 일어나다[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Suhyun: 일어나다 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Suhyun: 몇 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: how many |
| Suhyun: 몇[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Suhyun: 몇 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Suhyun: 학교에 가다 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: to go to school |
| Suhyun: 학교에 가다[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Suhyun: 학교에 가다 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Suhyun: 그러면 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: then, if that is the case |
| Suhyun: 그러면[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Suhyun: 그러면 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Suhyun: 보통 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: usually |
| Suhyun: 보통[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Suhyun: 보통 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Suhyun: 저녁 식사 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: dinner |
| Suhyun: 저녁 식사[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Suhyun: 저녁 식사 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Suhyun: 먹다 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: to eat |
| Suhyun: 먹다[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Suhyun: 먹다 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Suhyun: 집에 가다 [natural native speed] |
| Michael: to go back home |
| Suhyun: 집에 가다[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Suhyun: 집에 가다 [natural native speed] |
| KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES |
| Michael: Let's have a closer look at the usage of some of the words and phrases from this lesson. The first word is.. |
| Suhyun: 일어나다 |
| Michael: meaning "to get up”, or “to wake up". This verb describes the action of standing up, so Korean people use it in the context of waking up or standing up. Suhyun, can you give us an example? |
| Suhyun: Sure. 7시에 일어나다. |
| Michael: “I wake up at 7 o’clock.” |
| Suhyun: Or you can use another adverb, such as 일찍 일어나다 |
| Michael: Meaning “I wake up early.” |
| Suhyun: Or 늦게 일어나다. |
| Michael: Meaning “I wake up late.” |
| Suhyun: You can also find this verb being used with the word 잠자리 (jamjari) |
| Michael: This means “a place where I sleep” or “bed” right? |
| Suhyun: That’s right. Using this word, you can say 잠자리에서 일어나다. |
| Michael: Which literally means “I wake up from a bed.” This is a Korean idiom used to say “I wake up”. Okay, what's the next word? |
| Suhyun: 몇 |
| Michael: This means "how many". You can’t use this word alone - it should be used with counters in Korean. |
| Suhyun: For example, if you want to know how many things there are, you need to say 몇 meaning “how many,” then the counter 개, which is the counter for inanimate things. So you can say something like 몇 개. You can’t say 몇 alone without a counter. |
| Michael: So you need to ask “how many things do you have,” and cannot simply say “how many do you have?” when asking in Korean. |
| Suhyun: Exactly. If you want to know “how many people”, you can use a different counter. 명 is the counter for people, so you can say 몇 명 for “how many people?” |
| Michael: Can you give us an example using this word, Suhyun? |
| Suhyun: Sure! For example, you can say, 책이 몇 개가 있어? |
| Michael: .. which means "how many books do you have?” |
| Suhyun: Here, I said 몇 개 which literally means “how many things, using the counter 개. |
| Michael: Listeners, if you’re not familiar with counters yet, check out the “Korean counters for beginners” lessons. It’s a video lesson series where you’ll learn more than 20 Korean counters! Okay, now onto the grammar. |
Lesson focus |
| Michael: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to talk about your daily routine in Korean. It seems like in Korea, people often ask how others spend their day. |
| Suhyun: That’s right. But don’t be surprised. In Korea, finding out how someone spends their day is considered one of the ways to get to know them as a friend. |
| Michael: Okay. When you’re talking about routines, what kind of verb forms do you have to use? |
| Suhyun: Like in English, you can use the present tense, if you’re talking about things that you’re doing as a routine. And the ending can be the -입니다 form. |
| Michael: Using these endings makes your sentences polite. Okay, we have a list of verbs that you can use to talk about your routine. Let’s review them one by one, so that you can use them when you’re explaining your daily routine in Korean. Suhyun will say the Korean, then I will give you the English translation for each. What’s the first one, Suhyun? |
| Suhyun: 일어나다. |
| Michael: “to wake up.” Using this verb, how can we say “I wake up at 7 o’clock.”? |
| Suhyun: 7시에 일어나다. 7시 is the word meaning “7 o’clock”, 에 is the time marking particle, then the verb. You can use this pattern with other verbs too. Just say the time, the time marking particle 에, then the verb. |
| Michael: Okay. Moving on, for example, how can you say “I eat breakfast at 8 o’clock’? |
| Suhyun: You can use the verb 먹습니다 meaning “to eat” to make this sentence. 8시에 아침식사를 먹습니다. |
| Michael: “I eat breakfast at 8 o’clock.” |
| Suhyun: 8시에 means “at 8 o’clock” with the time marking particle 에. Then I added 아침식사, “breakfast” and the object marking particle 를. Then finally we had the verb 먹습니다. |
| Michael: which means “to eat.” Okay, so what about “watching TV”? I usually watch TV after I’ve had breakfast, around 9 o’clock. |
| Suhyun: You can use the verb 봅니다 meaning “to see” or “to watch”. 9시에 티비를 봅니다. |
| Michael: “I watch TV at 9 o’clock.” |
| Suhyun: First, 9시에 means “at 9 o’clock,” then we have 티비 meaning “T.V.” 봅니다 is the word meaning “to watch.” |
| Michael: Okay. Then what about “going to school”? |
| Suhyun: 갑니다 is the verb meaning “to go”, so you can say 학교에 갑니다. |
| Michael: “I go to a school” |
| Suhyun: Do you know what the function of the particle 에 is here? |
| Michael: It’s something like “to” as in “go to school”, right? |
| Suhyun: That’s right. When you use the verb 가다 or 갑니다, which means “to go,” you can use the location marking particle 에 to indicate where you’re going. For example, 학교에 갑니다. This means “Going TO school.” |
| Michael: We have plenty more examples in the list, so make sure to check out the lesson notes to learn more verbs that you can use to talk about your routine. Now let’s move to the adverbs of frequency. |
| Suhyun: When you’re doing something not every day, but sometimes, you can use the word 때때로. |
| Michael: Which means “sometimes” |
| Suhyun: That’s right. Adverbs of frequency can be placed in most parts of a sentence, but never at the end. |
| Michael: Okay, so how can we say, “I sometimes go to a shopping mall”? |
| Suhyun: 저는 때때로 쇼핑몰에 갑니다. 때때로 is placed after the subject here. Or you can say 저는 쇼핑몰에 때때로 갑니다 by putting the adverb before the verb. |
| Michael: Okay. What about “often”? |
| Suhyun: 자주. Using this word, you can say 저는 자주 쇼핑몰에 갑니다. |
| Michael: That means “I often go to a shopping mall.” |
| Suhyun: We also have 언제나 |
| Michael: Which means “always” |
| Suhyun: 매일 |
| Michael: Meaning “every day.” |
| Suhyun: 매일 아침 |
| Michael: “every morning” |
| Suhyun: And 매일 밤 |
| Michael: Which means “every night”. |
Outro |
| Michael: Okay, that’s all for this lesson. Thank you for listening, everyone, and we’ll see you next time! Bye! |
| Suhyun: 안녕히 계세요. (Annyeonghi gyeseyo.) |
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