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INTRODUCTION
Seol: 안녕하세요. 윤설입니다. (Annyeonghaseyo. Yunseorimnida.)
Minkyong: 안녕하세요. 민경입니다. (Annyeonghaseyo. Mingyeongimnida.)
Keith: Keith here. I Did It, I Am Doing It and I Am Going to Do It.
Seol: Hello everyone. I am Seol and welcome to KoreanClass101.com
Keith: With us, you will learn to speak Korean with fun and effective lessons.
Seol: We also provide you with cultural insights
Keith: And tips you won’t find in a textbook. All right, so here we are back at season 3, Beginner season 3 and we have a nice lesson. Seol, do you like to exercise? Do you go to gym sometimes?
Seol: No. I hardly go to the gym.
Keith: Hardly ever?
Seol: Yeah.
Keith: Minkyong, how about yourself?
Seol: Yeah I don’t go to gym.
Keith: koreanclass101, are we that lazy?
Seol: Kind of.
Keith: All right, well, what’s a gym? A fitness center in Korean.
Seol: 헬스클럽
Keith: And the first part is?
Seol: 헬스
Keith: Health and the last part?
Seol: 클럽
Keith: Club. Health club and that’s kind of a English word. Well I guess a Konglish word.
Seol: Yeah.
Keith: And for those of you that don’t know, what is Konglish by the way?
Seol: English plus Korean.
Keith: It’s a mix of English that Korean people think is Korean or English but it’s not really either.
Seol: Yeah it’s like in the middle.
Seol: Yeah but most of the time people just leave out club and just say 헬스. So these two people are you know at 헬스클럽
Keith: Or just 헬스
Seol: Yeah.
Keith: So what’s the focus of this lesson?
Seol: So the focus of this lesson is the three main different tenses in Korean. This conversation takes place in a gym
Keith: And the conversation is between a member of the gym and his trainer or his coach.
Seol: Speakers are not friends. Therefore speakers will be speaking formal Korean.
Keith: All right, let’s listen to today’s conversation.
DIALOGUE
주연: 영철씨, 등이랑 어깨 운동 했어요?
영철: 했어요.
주연: 그럼 배 운동은 안 해요?
영철: 지금 해요
주연: 팔 운동은 언제 할 거예요?
영철: 곧 할 거예요.
주연: 다리랑 허리 운동은 안 할 거예요?
Seol: 한번 더 천천히 (hanbeon deo cheoncheonhi).
주연: 영철씨, 등이랑 어깨 운동 했어요?
영철: 했어요.
주연: 그럼 배 운동은 안 해요?
영철: 지금 해요
주연: 팔 운동은 언제 할 거예요?
영철: 곧 할 거예요.
주연: 다리랑 허리 운동은 안 할 거예요?
Seol: 영어로 한 번 더 (yeongeoro han beon deo).
Keith: 이번에는 영어로
주연: 영철씨, 등이랑 어깨 운동 했어요?
Keith: Yeongcheol, did you do your back and shoulder exercises?
영철: 했어요.
Keith: I did.
주연: 그럼 배 운동은 안 해요?
Keith: Aren't you going to do abs?
영철: 지금 해요
Keith: I’m going to do it now.
주연: 팔 운동은 언제 할 거예요?
Keith: When are you going to do arm exercises?
영철: 곧 할 거예요.
Keith: I’ll do them soon.
주연: 다리랑 허리 운동은 안 할 거예요?
Keith: Aren't you going to do leg and waist exercises?
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Keith: Well, that person was being very annoying, huh?! You think she is trying to pick him up?
Seol: Probably not.
Keith: Well in Korea, our health club, I think good places to pick up people like get dates, meet people…
Seol: Well I don’t think so. People are exercising and they sweat right?
Keith: Well that’s a good thing though. Isn’t it?
Seol: Oh what!!
Keith: Everyone is good looking, they are fit, it is sweaty. It’s just really like
Seol: And they are stinky.
Keith: Yeah but it’s like a lot of raw energy. You know what I mean?
Seol: No.
Seol: No.
Keith: I think you want to move on.
Seol: Let’s move on.
VOCAB LIST
Keith: All right. So let’s take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson.
Keith: The first word we have is:
Seol: 등 [natural native speed]
Keith: back (of the body)
Seol: 등 [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Seol: 등 [natural native speed]
Keith: Next we have?
Minkyong: 어깨 [natural native speed]
Keith: shoulder
Minkyong: 어깨 [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Minkyong: 어깨 [natural native speed]
Keith: Next?
Seol: 배 [natural native speed]
Keith: stomach, belly
Seol: 배 [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Seol: 배 [natural native speed]
Keith: 그 다음엔
Minkyong: 팔 [natural native speed]
Keith: arm
Minkyong: 팔 [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Minkyong: 팔 [natural native speed]
Keith: And next we have?
Seol: 다리 [natural native speed]
Keith: leg
Seol: 다리 [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Seol: 다리 [natural native speed]
Keith: And after that?
Minkyong: 허리 [natural native speed]
Keith: waist
Minkyong: 허리 [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Minkyong: 허리 [natural native speed]
Keith: And 그 다음엔
Seol: 운동 [natural native speed]
Keith: exercise
Seol: 운동 [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Seol: 운동 [natural native speed]
Keith: And finally, what do we have?
Minkyong: 곧 [natural native speed]
Keith: soon; shortly
Minkyong: 곧 [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Minkyong: 곧 [natural native speed]
VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
Keith: So I have a brilliant idea.
Seol: So what’s your brilliant idea?
Keith: Why don’t we take a closer look at some of the words?
Seol: Okay.
Keith: The first word we are going to take a look at is?
Seol: 허리
Keith: And this word only refers to someone’s lower back and I love this word because it’s used by 아줌마s all the time.
Seol: Yeah older women and grandmothers always say 허리야, 허리야
Keith: My back, my back and then they always hit their lower back bum, bum, bum! So do you do that sometimes?
Seol: Yeah I admit, I do that.
Keith: Wait! Is that only reserved for 아줌마s and 할머니s grandmothers, older women or does everybody do that?
Seol: Yeah if you have a pain in your lower back, you say that. Haven’t you ever?
Keith: Yeah I have done it a couple of times but for some reason, I feel like that term is reserved for 아줌마s and 할머니들
Seol: But if guys say that, I think it would be a little bit weird.
Seol: 하하하하
Seol: Yeah I got what you mean. You know there is like the tone and it’s very high. So if guys say that, it will be like ah…
Keith: All right. Well this word also means waste and can we have a sample sentence?
Seol: 언니는 허리가 얇아요
Keith: So his waist is thin.
Seol: thank you 민경
Keith: And how about lower back? Can we have a sample sentence for that?
Seol: 허리가 아파요
Keith: My lower back hurts but if you noticed it, it’s the same word used for both lower back and waist. All right, let’s take a look at our next word 운동 and this is a 하다 verb. So the verb to exercise is
Seol: 운동하다
Keith: Very simple but in the context of this lesson, what we can do is we can add body parts in front of the word
Seol: 운동
Keith: And then it’s arm exercise, leg exercise, back exercise
Seol: Yeah for example, we can say 팔 운동
Keith: Arm exercise.
Seol: 다리 운동
Keith: Leg exercise and what if I am working all day, I am exercising my fingers. I am computer geek you know.
Seol: 손가락 운동
Keith: Yeah.
Seol: You are the first person who used that word.
Keith: No well fine…Well how about I am exercising my brain? I am thinking hard.
Seol: 두뇌 운동
Keith: Like a brain exercise.
Seol: I always do that then.
Keith: All right let’s move on to our grammar.

Lesson focus

Keith: As we said earlier in this lesson, we are going to have a look at the three main tenses in the Korean language - simple present tense, future, and past. And 설, which one do you want to look at first?
설: The present is the most important of all. We're living in the present, so look at the present tense.
Keith: You're so deep.
Seol: Thank you.
Keith: So what we have is the -어/어/여(요) (a/eo/yeo(yo)) conjugation. This is the basic way to conjugate Korean verbs in the simple present tense. At the end of those conjugations, you can add 요 (yo) to make the sentence more polite.
Keith: Alright, let's take a brief look at how it is constructed. If you already know how it's done, then review with us.
Keith: As the title suggests, there are a few different conjugations 아,어,여. And these are dependent on the vowel of the last syllable of the word.
민경: For verb stems that end with the vowels, 아 or 오, we use the 아 for the conjugation.
Keith: For example?
Seol: 놀다
Keith: To play. Then we take the verb stem...
Seol: 놀
Keith: Then we can add on?
민경: ㅏ
Keith: So now we have?
Seol: 놀아.
Keith: Play, in the simple present tense. How about ㅓ?
설: This is used for all other verb stems, not ending in ㅏ or ㅗ.
민경: For example we can use 믿다 - to trust.
Keith: We take the verb stem...
민경: 믿.
Keith: Then...we just add on 어. So we have?
민경: 믿어.
Seol: And for 하다 verbs. They're very easy. It just becomes 해.
Keith: Yea, it uses the conjugation 여, but it's just easier to remember it becoming 해 in this context.
설: And in Korean, the simple present tense often replaces the present progressive and also expresses a near future.
Keith: That's right. Can you give us a quick example?
설: You can say "학교 가요."
Keith: That's literally School, go.
설: But you can use it to say that you're going to school right now. It also means that you will go to school, like, tomorrow.
Keith: Ok and how was this present tense used in today's dialog?
Minkyong: 주연 says, 그럼 배 운동은 안해요?
Keith: Aren't you going to do abs? Aren't you going to exercise abs?
Seol: And Yeongcheol says, 지금 해요
Keith: I'm doing it now. That's the equivalent of the present progressive, but here, simple present tense. And just a quick tip. Many times there are deletions and contractions with repeating vowels, but you can check this lesson's lesson notes PDF for these deletion and contraction rules.
Keith: Alright. Let's go on to the next tense, 민경, now, we've got the future and the past left, which one do you want to go to first?
민경: The future. I don't like thinking too much about the past.
Seol: Wow.
Keith: A lot of painful memories. Alright, so what we have is?
Minkyong: -ㄹ/을 것이다
Keith: This is used to express a future action or an intention. Basically, it's the future tense. And to construct it...
민경: You take verb stems ending in a vowel plus -ㄹ 것이다
Keith: For example, we can take the verb...
민경: [보다] (boda)
Keith: To see. We take the verb stem.
민경: 보
Keith: And we add on?
민경: ㄹ 것이다
Keith: And now we've got?
민경: 볼 것이다
Keith: Will see.
Keith: And that last part
민경: 것이다
Keith: We can conjugate that according to different politeness levels. Please check the lesson notes for the conjugations
Keith: And how was it used in today's dialog?
민경: 주연 said, 주연 - 팔 운동은 언제 할 거예요?
Keith: When are you going to do arm exercises?
설: And Yeongcheol says, 영철 - 곧 할 거예요.
Keith: I will do it soon.
Keith: Alright, now that we got that covered. Let’s move onto the past tense, which is pretty much similar to the present tense.
민경: Yea, basically it's just 아, 어, 여 except you put ㅆ 밭침을 부쳐요.
Keith: Yea, we add the double ㅅ to the end of 아, 어, 여. What does that become?
Seol: -았/었/였다 (at/eot/yeotda)
Keith: This grammatical structure expresses the past tense. Just a quick note. We used to say this is a verbal infix, but one of our listeners and host of Indonesian Survival Phrases, Ed, he pointed out that this should actually be a suffix. So thanks, Ed!
설: Yea! Thanks Ed! So if you know the 아/어/여 conjugation, it's basically the same rules for the past tense. Except you just add ㅆ to the bottom of all of those.
민경: So if we have a verb stem that ends with the vowel 어, we use the 었 conjugation.
Keith: Let’s take an example from today's dialog...
설: 주연 said, 영철씨, 등이랑 어깨 운동 했어요?
Keith: Yeongcheol, did you do your back and shoulder exercises?
민경: And 영철 said, 했어요.
Keith: I did. Minkyong, 등이랑 어깨 운동 했어요?
민경: 네 했어요
Keith: Lies. How about you, Seol?
Seol: 저는 손가락 운동 했어요
Keith: Your finger exercises.

Outro

Keith: Okay so that just about does it for today. All right that’s going to do it. See everyone later.
Seol: Bye.
Seol: Bye.

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