Learn how to say the Korean equivalent of "so" and "therefore"
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Miseon: ์๋ ํ์ธ์ (annyeonghaseyo), KoreanClass101.com์ ๋๋ค (imnida). |
| Keith: Hi, I am Keith, welcome to newbie series season 4, lesson 21; โSo What! Speaking Korean May Get You Out of This Driving Fiasco!โ Hi, my name is Keith and Iโm joined by Miseon. |
| Miseon: ์๋ ํ์ธ์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ (annyeonghaseyo yeoreobun). Welcome back to koreanclass101.com |
| Keith: Okay, Miseon-ssi, what are we going to learn in this lesson? |
| Miseon: ๋ค (ne). In this lesson, weโll learn how to say so, or therefore in Korean. And also learn some expressions about driving. |
| Keith: Oh, driving. Okay, where does this conversation take place? |
| Miseon: This conversation takes place on the road. |
| Keith: O-o, thatโs not good. Youโre not supposed to be talking while youโre on the road. On the phone at least. |
| Miseon: No. |
| Keith: You can talk to people next to you. All right, whoโs this conversation between? |
| Miseon: The conversation between a police officer and a lady who was driving a little too fast. O-o. |
| Keith: O-o, All right. |
| Miseon: Problem. |
| Keith: The speakers are โฆ Well, itโs a policeman, so of course you are going to be polite to them. |
| Miseon: ๋ค ์กด๋๋ง ์ด์. (ne jondaenmal iyo.) |
| Keith: Listeners, I have a question. |
| Miseon: A question? |
| Keith: Yup, I want to know when was the last time you commented. |
| Miseon: Great question. |
| Keith: Stop by koreanclass101.com, leave us a comment or just say hi. Miseon-ssi, are you ready to listen to the conversation? |
| Miseon: ๊ทธ๋ผ์ (geureomyo) letโs begin. |
| DIALOGUE |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ์์ฃผ๋จธ๋, ๋ฉดํ์ฆ ์ฃผ์ธ์. (ajumeoni, myeonheojeung juseyo.) |
| ์์ค๋ง (ajumma): ๋ค? ์์? (ne? waeyo?) |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ๊ณผ์์ ๋๋ค. (gwasok-imnida.) |
| ์์ค๋ง (ajumma): ๋ค? ์ ๊ฐ์? ์ฃ์กํด์... ์ ๊ฐ ์ค๋... ์ค์ํ ์ฝ์์ด ์์ด์. (ne? je-gayo? joesonghaeyo... je-ga oneul... jung-yohan yaksok-i isseoyo.) |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ๊ทธ๋์์? ๋ฉดํ์ฆ ์ฃผ์ธ์. (geuraeseoyo? myeonheojeung juseyo.) |
| ์์ค๋ง (ajumma): ๊ทธ๋์... ์ง์์ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋์์ด์. (geuraeseo... jib-eseo ppalli nawasseoyo.) |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ๊ทธ๋์์? (geuraeseoyo?) |
| ์์ค๋ง (ajumma): ๊ทธ๋์ ์ง๊ธ ๋ฉดํ์ฆ์ด ์์ด์... ํ ๋ฒ๋ง ๋ด์ฃผ์ธ์. ๋ค? (geuraeseo jigeum myeonheojeung-i eopseoyo... han beon-man bwajuseyo. ne?) |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ์ ๋ผ์. ๋ฒ๊ธ์ ๋๋ค. (an dwaeyo. beolgeum-imnida.) |
| Miseon: ํ๋ฒ ๋ ์ฒ์ฒํ (hanbeon deo cheoncheonhi). |
| Keith: One more time, slowly. |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ์์ฃผ๋จธ๋, ๋ฉดํ์ฆ ์ฃผ์ธ์. (ajumeoni, myeonheojeung juseyo.) |
| ์์ค๋ง (ajumma): ๋ค? ์์? (ne? waeyo?) |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ๊ณผ์์ ๋๋ค. (gwasok-imnida.) |
| ์์ค๋ง (ajumma): ๋ค? ์ ๊ฐ์? ์ฃ์กํด์... ์ ๊ฐ ์ค๋... ์ค์ํ ์ฝ์์ด ์์ด์. (ne? je-gayo? joesonghaeyo... je-ga oneul... jung-yohan yaksok-i isseoyo.) |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ๊ทธ๋์์? ๋ฉดํ์ฆ ์ฃผ์ธ์. (geuraeseoyo? myeonheojeung juseyo.) |
| ์์ค๋ง (ajumma): ๊ทธ๋์... ์ง์์ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋์์ด์. (geuraeseo... jib-eseo ppalli nawasseoyo.) |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ๊ทธ๋์์? (geuraeseoyo?) |
| ์์ค๋ง (ajumma): ๊ทธ๋์ ์ง๊ธ ๋ฉดํ์ฆ์ด ์์ด์... ํ ๋ฒ๋ง ๋ด์ฃผ์ธ์. ๋ค? (geuraeseo jigeum myeonheojeung-i eopseoyo... han beon-man bwajuseyo. ne?) |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ์ ๋ผ์. ๋ฒ๊ธ์ ๋๋ค. (an dwaeyo. beolgeum-imnida.) |
| Miseon: ์์ด๋ก ํ๋ฒ๋. (yeongeoro hanbeondeo.) |
| Keith: Now letโs hear it with the English translation. |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ์์ฃผ๋จธ๋, ๋ฉดํ์ฆ ์ฃผ์ธ์. (ajumeoni, myeonheojeung juseyo.) |
| Keith: Ma'am, please give me your driver's license. |
| ์์ค๋ง (ajumma): ๋ค? ์์? (ne? waeyo?) |
| Keith: What? Why? |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ๊ณผ์์ ๋๋ค. (gwasok-imnida.) |
| Keith: You were speeding. |
| ์์ค๋ง (ajumma): ๋ค? ์ ๊ฐ์? ์ฃ์กํด์... ์ ๊ฐ ์ค๋... ์ค์ํ ์ฝ์์ด ์์ด์. (ne? je-gayo? joesonghaeyo... je-ga oneul... jung-yohan yaksok-i isseoyo.) |
| Keith: What? Me? I'm sorry. I have...an...important appointment today. |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ๊ทธ๋์์? ๋ฉดํ์ฆ ์ฃผ์ธ์. (geuraeseoyo? myeonheojeung juseyo.) |
| Keith: So? Give me your driver's license. |
| ์์ค๋ง (ajumma): ๊ทธ๋์... ์ง์์ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋์์ด์. (geuraeseo... jib-eseo ppalli nawasseoyo.) |
| Keith: So...I hurried out of my house. |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ๊ทธ๋์์? (geuraeseoyo?) |
| Keith: So? |
| ์์ค๋ง (ajumma): ๊ทธ๋์ ์ง๊ธ ๋ฉดํ์ฆ์ด ์์ด์... ํ ๋ฒ๋ง ๋ด์ฃผ์ธ์. ๋ค? (geuraeseo jigeum myeonheojeung-i eopseoyo... han beon-man bwajuseyo. ne?) |
| Keith: So...I don't have my driver's license card with me now. Please let it slide...will you? |
| ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ (gyeongchal): ์ ๋ผ์. ๋ฒ๊ธ์ ๋๋ค. (an dwaeyo. beolgeum-imnida.) |
| Keith: No. You're going to be fined. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Keith: Miseon-ssi, did you ever get a ticket while youโre driving in Korea? |
| Miseon: In fact I donโt have a driving license, so I never drived in my whole life. Sorry. |
| Keith: Oh, never. |
| Miseon: Never ever. |
| Keith: Well, itโs a good thing, because โฆ |
| Miseon: Isnโt that stupid? |
| Keith: No, no no no. I think itโs great because driving โฆ I donโt have a lot of good experiences with driving, including tickets and accidents. |
| Miseon: So, it means you have a lot of fines. |
| Keith: Well, letโs move on. |
| Miseon: Okay. |
| Keith: But, you know what in this conversation, in Korean they said something along the lines of please let it slide, right? |
| Miseon: ๋ค (ne). Iโm sure you said so many times about it, right? It means like ํ๋ฒ๋ง ๋ด์ฃผ์ธ์ (hanbeonman bwajuseyo) right? |
| Keith: Yeah. |
| Miseon: Yeah. |
| Keith: Well, itโs not exactly right. To say this. Itโs not 100% ethical, maybe. I donโt know. What the word is, but you know, the law is law. If you have to pay some fine, a penalty you have to, but sometimes. |
| Miseon: Right, right. Still a lot of people thinks is too cold or too strict if they have to abide by all the little rules, so they give it a try, right? |
| Keith: Yeah, they give it a try to say, one more time itโs: |
| Miseon: ํ๋ฒ๋ง ๋ด์ฃผ์ธ์. (hanbeonman bwajuseyo) |
| Keith: Right, and you know, if you say you got nothing to lose. But you know what? Honestly I think in Korea, you know, thereโre โฆ of course there are rules itโs a society, and โฆ But, I think the policemen they tend to let little things here and there slide, right? |
| Miseon: Yeah, I think, if you mean like a nice officer, then youโll probably have a chance to let it slide, so โฆ |
| Keith: So, I mean like, itโs not like super super strict rule. I mean of course theyโre not going to let like a murderer slide. But you know, may be little things here and there if itโs not such a big deal, if you not bothering anyone, itโs like, So, Come on, let it slide, ํ๋ฒ๋ง ๋ด์ฃผ์ธ์ (hanbeonman bwajuseyo) and itโs like Okay. |
| Miseon: ๋ค ๋ค (ne ne) Maybe, little bit of time, right? |
| Keith: Yeah, may be sometimes. |
| Miseon: Yeah. |
| Keith: All right, letโs move on to the vocabulary. |
| Miseon: ๋ค (ne) |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Keith: First word we have is: |
| Miseon: ๋ฉดํ์ฆ (myeonheojeung) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: driver's license card |
| Miseon: ๋ฉดํ์ฆ (myeonheojeung) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Miseon: ๋ฉดํ์ฆ (myeonheojeung) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Next. |
| Miseon: ์ฃผ๋ค (juda) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: to give |
| Miseon: ์ฃผ๋ค (juda) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Miseon: ์ฃผ๋ค (juda) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Next. |
| Miseon: ๊ณผ์ (gwasok) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: speeding |
| Miseon: ๊ณผ์ (gwasok) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Miseon: ๊ณผ์ (gwasok) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Next. |
| Miseon: ์ค์ํ๋ค (jungyohada) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: to be important |
| Miseon: ์ค์ํ๋ค (jungyohada) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Miseon: ์ค์ํ๋ค (jungyohada) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Next. |
| Miseon: ์ฝ์ (yaksok) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: promise, appointment, engagement |
| Miseon: ์ฝ์ (yaksok) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Miseon: ์ฝ์ (yaksok) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Next. |
| Miseon: ์ง (jip) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: house, home |
| Miseon: ์ง (jip) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Miseon: ์ง (jip) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Next. |
| Miseon: ๋นจ๋ฆฌ (ppalli) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: fast, quickly |
| Miseon: ๋นจ๋ฆฌ (ppalli) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Miseon: ๋นจ๋ฆฌ (ppalli) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Next. |
| Miseon: ๋์ค๋ค (naoda) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: to come out |
| Miseon: ๋์ค๋ค (naoda) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Miseon: ๋์ค๋ค (naoda) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: And finally. |
| Miseon: ๋ด์ฃผ๋ค (bwajuda) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: to let it slide |
| Miseon: ๋ด์ฃผ๋ค (bwajuda) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Miseon: ๋ด์ฃผ๋ค (bwajuda) [natural native speed] |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| Keith: All right, letโs take a closer look at some of the words and phrases from this lesson. |
| Miseon: ๋ค (ne). The first word weโll look at is ๋ฉดํ์ฆ (myeonheojeung) |
| Keith: And thatโs a driverโs license. |
| Miseon: ๋ฉดํ์ฆ, ๋ฉดํ์ฆ. (myeonheojeung, myeonheojeung.) |
| Keith: Okay, so the word ๋ฉดํ์ฆ (myeonheojeung) is actually the card, right? The physical card itself. What about just the driverโs license? |
| Miseon: Driverโs license is ๋ฉดํ. (myeonheo.) |
| Keith: Right, so the permission, the license to drive is ๋ฉดํ. (myeonheo.) |
| Miseon: ๋ค (ne). And ์ฆ (jeung) is a word for identifications, or certification like ์ ๋ถ์ฆ (sinbunjeung) |
| Keith: And thatโs ID card. Can we have that word one more time? |
| Miseon: ์ ๋ถ์ฆ, ์ ๋ถ์ฆ. (sinbunjeung, sinbunjeung.) |
| Keith: And of course thereโs a lot of identification cards, may be like a student card, whatโs that? |
| Miseon: ๋ค (ne). ํ์์ฆ. (haksaengjeung.) |
| Keith: Right, and it has a ์ฆ (jeung) at the end, right? |
| Miseon: ๋ค (ne). |
| Keith: And most of our students know that ํ์ (haksaeng) is student, so right after that we had ์ฆ (jeung), and we got student card. |
| Miseon: ๋ค๋ง์์. (nemajayo.) |
| Keith: All right, whatโs the next word we are taking a look at? |
| Miseon: ๊ณผ์ (gwasok) |
| Keith: And thatโs speeding, or driving too fast. |
| Miseon: ๊ณผ์, ๊ณผ์. (gwasok, gwasok.) |
| Keith: Okay, itโs a short word, ๊ณผ์ (gwasok), and just two syllables, but you can actually break this word down. |
| Miseon: ๋ค (ne) And it will be easier to remember too. The first letter is ๊ณผ (gwa). |
| Keith: And that one means โexcessiveโ or โtoo muchโ. |
| Miseon: ๋ค (gwa) and then, the second letter is ์ (sok). |
| Keith: And that one means โspeedโ, so literally what it is in the ํ์ (hyeonja) is ๊ณผ์ (gwasok), thatโs excessive speeding. |
| Miseon: ๋ค๋ง์์. So ๊ณผ์ํ์ง ๋ง์ธ์~ (nemajayo. So gwasokaji maseyo~) |
| Keith: Oh, donโt worry. I donโt speed. Sometimes. I donโt even drive anymore. |
| Miseon: You didnโt say before. |
| Keith: Letโs take a look at the focus for this lesson. |
| Miseon: ๋ค (ne) |
Lesson focus |
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| Keith: All right, Whatโs the focus? What are we taking a look at? |
| Miseon: The focus of this lesson is to how to say โsoโ, or โthereforeโ in Korean, and also to learn some expressions about driving. |
| Keith: Okay, can we have an example? |
| Miseon: ๋ค (ne). ๊ทธ๋์ ์ง๊ธ ๋ฉดํ์ฆ์ด ์์ด์. (geuraeseo jigeum myeonheojeungi eopseoyo.) |
| Keith: โSo, I donโt have my driverโs license now.โ |
| Miseon: So, when you want to say โsoโ, or โthereforeโ in Korean, this is the simplest way to do yet, just say ๊ทธ๋์. (geuraeseo.) |
| Keith: Yeah, you can conjugate the verb of a previous sentence to connect two sentences. But even you donโt do that, just by saying ๊ทธ๋์ (geuraeseo) will link two sentences as well. |
| Miseon: ๋ค๋ง์์. (nemajayo.) And like in English, If you just say ๊ทธ๋์? (geuraeseo?) as a question, it can both be a curious enquiry about what happened next, and a sarcastic โSo what?โ |
| Keith: All right, and you can say your sarcastic โso whatโ in polite language too, right? |
| Miseon: ๋ค (ne). ๊ทธ๋์์? (geuraeseoyo?) |
| Keith: Pretty sarcastic, yeah. Could we have an example? |
| Miseon: ๋ค (ne). ์ด์ ๋น๊ฐ ์์ด์. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ง์ ์์์ด์. (eoje biga wasseoyo. geuraeseo jibe isseosseoyo.) |
| Keith: It rained yesterday, so I stayed at home. ๊ทธ๋์์? (geuraeseoyo?) Okay, so? |
| Miseon: ๊ทธ๋์์? (geuraeseoyo?) |
| Keith: Itโs pretty sarcastic. All right, so how was ๊ทธ๋์์? (geuraeseoyo?) used in the dialogue for this lesson? |
| Miseon: ๊ทธ๋์์? (geuraeseoyo?) |
| Keith: "So?" |
| Miseon: ๊ทธ๋์... ์ง์์ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋์์ด์. (geuraeseo... jibeseo ppalli nawasseoyo.) |
| Keith: "So... I hurried out of the house." |
| Miseon: ๊ทธ๋์์? (geuraeseoyo?) |
| Keith: "So?" |
| Miseon: ๊ทธ๋์ ์ง๊ธ ๋ฉดํ์ฆ์ด ์์ด์โฆ (geuraeseo jigeum myeonheojeungi eopseoyoโฆ) |
| Keith: "So I don't have my driver's license now." Okay, do you have a couple of more sample sentences for us? |
| Miseon: Sure, I would love to. Give me the English. |
| Keith: Alright, so first is, "So when are you going to come?" |
| Miseon: ๊ทธ๋์ ์ธ์ ์ฌ ๊ฑฐ์์? (geuraeseo eonje ol geoyeyo?) |
| Keith: "So what did you do?" |
| Miseon: ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ์ด์? (geuraeseo eotteoke haesseoyo?) |
| Keith: "So what's the conclusion?" |
| Miseon: ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ด ๋ญ์์? (geuraeseo gyeolloni mwoyeyo?) |
Outro |
| Miseon: Ready to test what you just have learnt? |
| Keith: Make this lessonโs vocabulary stick by using lesson specific flashcards in the learning centre. |
| Miseon: There is a reason everyone uses flash cards. |
| Keith: They work. |
| Miseon: They really do help memorization. |
| Keith: You can get the flash cards for this lesson at: |
| Miseon: KoreanClass101.com |
| Keith: okay, thanks you everybody. Thanks for listening. |
| Miseon: ๋ค ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ค ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ. ์๋ ํ ๊ณ์ธ์. (ne gamsanida yeoreobun. annyeonghi gyeseyo.) |
| Keith: Bye bye. |
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