Learn some common expressions Koreans will use when they haven't seen someone for a long time
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Keith: Haven't Been to Korea in a Long Time! Keith here! |
| Misun: I'm here, Misun. And thank you again for being here with us for this Absolute Beginner Season 1 lesson. |
| Keith: Misun, you are absolutely pumped, and that’s great, because in this lesson, what are we going to learn about? |
| Misun: 감사합니다, First. We are going to learn how to greet an old friend. |
| Keith: Okay. And this conversation takes place where? |
| Misun: On the street. |
| Keith: And the conversation is between… |
| Misun: Jerry and Yoshin. |
| Keith: And the speakers are friends, but they're not too close. |
| Misun: Yeah. So they will be speaking formal Korean, 존댓말. |
| Keith: Let's listen to today’s dialogue. |
Lesson conversation |
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| 효진 제리 씨! 오랜만이에요! |
| 제리 효진 씨! 오랜만이에요! |
| 효진 반가워요. 잘 지내셨어요? |
| 제리 네! 효진씨 잘 지내셨어요? |
| 효진 아니요... |
| 제리 아… |
| English Host: One more time, with the English. |
| 효진 제리 씨! 오랜만이에요! |
| Keith: Jerry! It's been a long time! |
| 제리 효진 씨! 오랜만이에요! |
| Keith: Hyojin! It's been a long time! |
| 효진 반가워요. 잘 지내셨어요? |
| Keith: It's good to see you. Have you been good? |
| 제리 네! 효진씨 잘 지내셨어요? |
| Keith: Yes! Hyojin, have you been good? |
| 효진 아니요... |
| Keith: No... |
| 제리 아… |
| Keith: Oh. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Keith: Misun, if this happened to me, usually, I would be so happy to see my old friend, I'd give a nice big hug! |
| Misun: That’s right. But in Korea, hugs aren't so common. We might get a half-frozen hug, like… |
| Keith: Yeah, it's a bit unrequited love, but hugging in Korea is reserved for special people right? |
| Misun: That’s right. Exactly, like boyfriends, girlfriends, children and parents or grandparents. Something like that. |
| Keith: Family most of the time, and lovers. But what about friends? |
| Misun: Well, usually if they're close, close friends, they might hug. And also, like, with the same gender, but hugging between friends isn't as common as it is in America. |
| Keith: Well, you know, let me give you a story. About maybe 10 years ago, I met this great friend of mine and we just kept in touch by email. And finally, I got to see her again after maybe about five, six years. I was like, “It’s so good to see.” 오랜만이에요. and then give her a nice big hug and she just kind of tap me on my back. |
| Misun: Well, it’s kind of weird, like, a different gender can hug in Korea. |
| Keith: It’s not very common. |
| Misun: Even if they’re friends, but we don’t really do it that way. |
| Keith: All right. So do you have any experiences like that? Or you know better not to hug. |
| Misun: I know that. I know not to hug. |
| Keith: All right. So what do you suggest our listeners if they see a friend they haven't seen in a while? No hugging? |
| Misun: No hugging, but shaking hands or…what? With a big smile. |
| Keith: Big smile. |
| Misun: Yeah. |
| Keith: Shaking hands, and maybe a little bow. |
| Misun: Somehow. Right, right. |
| Keith: Yeah. Okay. |
| Misun: Yeah. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Keith: Well, let’s move onto our vocabulary. The first word we have is… |
| Misun: 오랜만이에요 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: It's been a long time. |
| Misun: 오랜만이에요 [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 오랜만이에요 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Next. |
| Misun: 씨 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Mr. / Mrs./ Ms. |
| Misun: 씨 [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 씨 [natural native speed]. |
| Keith: Next is… |
| Misun: 반가워요. [natural native speed] |
| Keith: It's good to see you. |
| Misun: 반가워요. [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 반가워요. [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Next… |
| Misun: 잘 지내셨어요? [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Have you been good? |
| Misun: 잘 지내셨어요? [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 잘 지내셨어요? [natural native speed]. |
| Keith: Next… |
| Misun: 아니요 [natural native speed] |
| Keith: No. |
| Misun: 아니요 [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 아니요 [natural native speed]. |
| KEY VOCABULARY AND PHRASES |
| Keith: Okay. Well, let's have a closer look at some of the words and phrases. |
| Misun: The first word we’ll look at is 씨. |
| Keith: And this is Mr. or Miss. |
| Misun: This is used to be polite, just like Mr or Ms is in English. |
| Keith: Right, but you usually use this with given names, with your first names, not family names, your last names. |
| Misun: Exactly. For example, my name is…absolutely, you know that, right? 미선. And my family name is Choi which calls 최 in Korean sound. So since Misun is my first name, my given name, you should say Misun 미선 씨. |
| Keith: You wouldn’t say 최 씨, which a lot of people may be used to because of English, right? You say, Miss Choi, but not in Korean. |
| Misun: No, no. And if you’ll use it with last names, it can be considered rude. |
| Keith: Right. But oddly enough, if you're a foreigner, sometimes Korean people might call you by your last name, like 존슨(Johnson)씨 or something like that. |
| Misun: Yea I think this is because Korean people are trying to be accommodating to other people's cultures. |
| Keith: Yeah. So they might think calling you by your last name is polite in America or Europe or something. |
| Misun: But in Korea, it's definitely the first name. |
| Keith: Exactly. So I guess when it comes to foreigners things, get pretty confusing sometimes, huh? |
| Misun: I think so, you know.. one of my friends, she’s American, she also get confused, like, by calling other people’s names, especially like Korean names, like, “How do I call it?” Just Kim is fine or Heobak is fine. |
| Keith: Let me tell you, it’s the first name, right, 미선씨? |
| Misun: 네 맞아요. |
| Keith: Well, what's our next word? |
| Misun: Next is word is 아니요. |
| Keith: And that word means, “no.” |
| Misun: This comes from the verb 아니다, which means “to not be.” |
| Keith: Right, it's basically no. But we want to go over this word really quickly for our absolute beginners. |
| Misun: 네. If you're asked a question, and you want to answer "no", you can say 아니요. |
| Keith: And if you want to say yes? |
| Misun: You can say 네. |
| Keith: And of course both of these are polite. What about if you're with really close friends, or someone you're really comfortable with? |
| Misun: To say 'no' you can say... 아니. You just drop 요 at the end. |
| Keith: And to say "yes"? |
| Misun: You can say, 응. |
| Keith: Okay. And how about we move onto the focus of this lesson? |
| Misun: 아니요. |
| Keith: No? |
| Misun: 아니요.Just kidding. 네. |
| Keith: All right. |
Lesson focus |
| Misun: The focus of this lesson is phrases used when seeing someone for the first time in a long time. |
| Keith: Right. When you run into someone onto the street or if you haven’t seen them in a while. |
| Misun: So we'll go over a couple of phrases you can use. |
| Keith: Sure. What’s the first one? |
| Misun: The first one is 오랜만이에요. |
| Keith: "It's been a long time." |
| Misun: You use this phrase when you're seeing someone for the first time in a long time. |
| Keith: Yup. Literally this phrase means, “long time, it's been.” |
| Misun:네. 오랜만이에요. But you use it for "it's been a long time" or "long time no see." |
| Keith: But a great thing about this phrase is, you can use this phrase for situations other than meeting someone in a long time. |
| Misun: 예. ea. Like, if you haven't done in a long time. |
| Keith: So, for example, eating a certain food in a long time, or going to a certain place in a long time. |
| Misun: Yes. But the purpose of this lesson…let's focus on meeting someone in a long time, okay? |
| Keith: All right. So let's say we run in to each other on the street after 20 years, and I say, 미선 씨!!! 안녕하세요!... Misun! Hello! |
| Misun: Wow, 20 years. Then I have to say, “Keith 씨! 오랜만이에요!” |
| Keith: “It's been a long time.” Just like in English. Okay. What's our next phrase? |
| Misun: Our next phrase is... 반가워요. |
| Keith: "It's good to see you." |
| Misun: This is a conjugated form of the verb 반갑다. |
| Keith: And that verb is roughly translated as, "to be happy to see." |
| Misun: 네. It's often used when seeing someone for the first time in a long time. |
| Keith: Which is good, because that’s the purpose of this lesson! |
| Misun: So if you haven't seen someone in a long time, and you're so happy to see them, you can just say, 반가워요! |
| Keith: Yes. It's good to see you. |
| Misun: This phrase is also used in first-time meeting, too. |
| Keith: Yeah. When you meet someone for the first time, you can usually hear this phrase. |
| Misun: But when you're meeting someone for the first time, you can usually hear it in the formal politeness level, 반갑습니다. |
| Keith: And when you use it for meeting someone for the first time, it’s usually translated as "it's nice to meet you." |
| Misun: But even if you're seeing someone again in a long time, you can use this phrase. 반갑습니다 or 반가워요. |
| Keith: Exactly. And Misun, really quickly, what's the intimate politeness level? How do we say it informally? |
| Misun: Between friends, that would be 반가워. |
| Keith: And use that with your close friends. Let’s move onto our last phrase. |
| Misun: Okay, 좋아요. Our last phrase is, 잘 지내셨어요? |
| Keith: "Have you been good?" or "how have you been?" |
| Misun: Literally, this phrase means, "have you passed time well?" |
| Keith: Right. But in this sense it's basically asking how you've been. |
| Misun: But this phrase is pretty commonly used. |
| Keith: Yeah. Even if it's not a friend, and you don't feel comfortable saying the other two phrases... |
| Misun: 오랜만이에요 and 반가워요. |
| Keith: Right. If you don’t know them well enough to say, “Hey, it’s been a long time,” you can still use 잘 지내셨어요 right? |
| Misun: 네. |
| Keith: So you can use this with people you don’t know very well. |
| Misun: For example, I run into my aunt that I haven't seen in a while, I can ask, 잘 지내셨어요? |
| Keith: And just like in English, you're asking if they've been good. |
| Misun: And there's a few conjugations you can check out in this lesson’s lesson notes. |
| Keith: Don't forget to check it out! |
Outro |
| Keith: Okay. Well, that just about does it for today. Bye! |
| Misun: Bye! 안녕히 계세요. |
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