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KIIP 1: Unit 18โEssential Words and Phrases about Life in Korea
Saison 1 ยท รpisode 18
dimanche 9 mars 2025 โข Durรฉe 17:42
๐๏ธ Welcome to the Self-Study Korean Podcast, your guide to mastering the Korean language and culture.
In todayโs episode, weโre exploring Unit 18, which focuses on essential vocabulary and phrases about life in Korea. This lesson will help you talk about:
โข ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค โ To need an alien registration card
โข ๊ฑด๊ฐ ๋ณดํ โ Health insurance
โข ์ ์ฌ์๊ฐ โ Lunchtime
โข ์์์ฃผ โ Food, clothing, and shelter
โข ์ง๋ฃํ๋ค โ To provide medical treatment
Neighborhood and Local Services (๋๋ค) ๐ก
โข ๋ฐฐ๋ฌ โ Delivery
โข 24์๊ฐ ๋ฐฐ๋ฌ โ 24-hour delivery
โข 24์๊ฐ ๋ฐฐ๋ฌ์ด ๋๋ค โ To have 24-hour delivery
โข ํ๋ค โ To sell
โข ์ฐ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ดํฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค โ To sell garbage bags
โข ๋ฌธ์ ๋ซ๋ค โ To close (a store or building)
โข ๋ฌธ์ ์ด๋ค โ To open (a store or building)
โข ์ฝ์ ํ๋ค โ To sell medicine
โข ๋๋ก โ Road
โข ์์ ๊ฑฐ ๋๋ก โ Bicycle road
โข ์ ์ฉ โ Exclusive use
โข ์ฐจ๋ก โ Lane
โข ๋ฒ์ค ์ ์ฉ ์ฐจ๋ก โ Bus-only lane
โข ํฅ๋น์ โ Korean shaved ice dessert
โข ํน์ง โ Characteristic
Key Phrases to Practice
๐๏ธ Now, letโs practice some useful phrases that will help you confirm information, describe situations, and ask about services in your neighborhood. Listen and repeat after me!
Confirmation with ์ง์?
์ค๋ ๋ ์จ๊ฐ ๋ง์ด ๋ฅ์ง์?
(The weather is very hot today, isnโt it?)
โ ๋ค, ์ ๋ง ๋์์.
(Yes, itโs really hot.)
๐๏ธ You can use this pattern for other weather conditions:
์ค๋ ๋น๊ฐ ๋ง์ด ์ค์ง์? (Itโs raining a lot today, isnโt it?)
โ ๋ค, ์ฐ์ฐ์ด ํ์ํด์. (Yes, you need an umbrella.)
์ฌ๋ณด์ธ์. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ๋ํ๋ณ์์ด์ง์?
(Hello, is this Daehan Hospital?)
โ ๋ค, ๋ง์ต๋๋ค.
(Yes, it is.)
๐๏ธ You can use this when calling other places:
์ฌ๋ณด์ธ์. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ์์ธ ๋์๊ด์ด์ง์? (Hello, is this Seoul Library?)
๐๏ธ Great job! Keep practicing these phrases in daily conversations, and youโll feel more confident using Korean in real-life situations.
Quiz Time!
Question 1:
How do you say โIs this Daehan Hospital?โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ์ฌ๋ณด์ธ์. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ๋ํ๋ณ์์ด์ง์?
Question 2:
How do you say โKorea has many mountains, but my hometown has few.โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ํ๊ตญ์๋ ์ฐ์ด ๋ง์๋ฐ ์ ๊ณ ํฅ์๋ ์ฐ์ด ์ ์ด์.
Question 3:
How do you say โDonโt enter the bus-only lane.โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ๋ฒ์ค ์ ์ฉ ์ฐจ๋ก์ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ์ง ๋ง์ธ์.
๐๏ธ How did you do? Keep practicing, and soon youโll feel confident using these phrases in real-life situations!
KIIP 1: Unit 17โEssential Words and Phrases about Public Places and Activities
Saison 1 ยท รpisode 17
lundi 3 mars 2025 โข Durรฉe 15:54
๐๏ธ Welcome to the Self-Study Korean Podcast. In todayโs episode, weโll explore Unit 17, where we focus on vocabulary and phrases related to public places and activities. This lesson will help you navigate different locations, describe activities, and follow public rules in Korean.
๐๏ธ Letโs start with some important vocabulary about public places, activities, and directions.
Public Places (๊ณต๊ณต์ฅ์) ๐ข
โข ์ํ โ Bank
โข ๋ฐฑํ์ โ Department store
โข ์ฃผ์ฐจ์ฅ โ Parking lot
โข ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด โ Museum
โข ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์ โ Police station
โข ์ฃผ๋ฏผ ์ผํฐ โ Community center
โข ์ฐ์ฒด๊ตญ โ Post office
โข ๊ณต์ โ Park
โข ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ณต์ โ National park
โข ๋๋ฌผ์ โ Zoo
โข ๊ณต์ฐ์ฅ โ Performance venue
โข ๋ฏธ์ ๊ด โ Art museum
โข ํธ์์ โ Convenience store
๐๏ธ These words will help you navigate the city and ask for locations in Korean.
Activities at Public Places (๊ณต๊ณต์ฅ์์์ ํ๋) ๐๏ธ
โข ํ์ ํ๋ค โ To exchange money
KIIP 1: Unit 16โEssential Words and Phrases about Health and Hospital
Saison 1 ยท รpisode 16
samedi 22 fรฉvrier 2025 โข Durรฉe 14:33
๐๏ธ Welcome to the Self-Study Korean Podcast, your guide to mastering the Korean language and culture. In todayโs episode, weโll explore Unit 16, where we focus on health and hospital-related vocabulary and phrases. These expressions will help you describe symptoms, seek medical help, and give advice when someone is sick.
๐๏ธ First, letโs go over some important body parts, hospital departments, and health-related verbs.
Body Parts (๋ชธ) ๐ฅ
โข ๋ โ Eye
โข ๊ท โ Ear
โข ์ด โ Tooth
โข ์ฝ โ Nose
โข ๋ชฉ โ Neck/Throat
โข ํ โ Arm
โข ์ โ Hand
โข ํ๋ฆฌ โ Waist
โข ๋ฐฐ โ Stomach
โข ๋ค๋ฆฌ โ Leg
โข ๋ฌด๋ฆ โ Knee
โข ๋ฐ โ Foot
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Hospital (๋ณ์) ๐ฅ
โข ๋ณ์ โ Hospital
โข ๋ด๊ณผ โ Internal medicine
โข ์ด๋น์ธํ๊ณผ โ ENT (Ear, Nose, Throat)
โข ์ ํ์ธ๊ณผ โ Orthopedics
KIIP 1: Unit 15โEssential Words and Phrases about Seasons and Weather
Saison 1 ยท รpisode 15
lundi 17 fรฉvrier 2025 โข Durรฉe 15:08
๐๏ธ Welcome to the Self-Study Korean Podcast, your guide to mastering the Korean language and culture. In todayโs episode, weโll explore Unit 15, where weโll learn essential words and phrases related to seasons and weather.
By the end of this episode, youโll be able to:
โ Talk about the four seasons in Korean.
โ Describe different weather conditions.
โ Make comparisons about the weather between places.
๐ This lesson will help you talk about the changing seasons, describe the weather, and express admiration in daily conversations.
๐๏ธ First, letโs go over some important words related to seasons and weather.
Seasons (๊ณ์ ) ๐๐โ๏ธ๐ธ
โข ๋ด โ Spring
โข ์ฌ๋ฆ โ Summer
โข ๊ฐ์ โ Fall/Autumn
โข ๊ฒจ์ธ โ Winter
โข ๋ฐ๋ปํ๋ค โ To be warm
โข ๊ฝ์ด ํผ๋ค โ Flowers bloom
โข ๋ฅ๋ค โ To be hot
โข ๋ฐ๋ท๊ฐ โ Beach
โข ์์ํ๋ค โ To be chilly
โข ๋จํ์ด ์๋ฆ๋ต๋ค โ The autumn leaves are beautiful
โข ์ถฅ๋ค โ To be cold
KIIP 1: Unit 14โEssential Words and Phrases about Scheduling and Appointments
Saison 1 ยท รpisode 14
dimanche 9 fรฉvrier 2025 โข Durรฉe 15:25
๐๏ธ Welcome to the Self-Study Korean Podcast, your guide to mastering the Korean language and culture. In todayโs episode, weโre covering Unit 14, where weโll talk about scheduling, making appointments, and explaining why you canโt attend plans.
By the end of this episode, youโll be able to:
โ Make and change appointments.
โ Suggest plans using ์๊น์? (Shall weโฆ?)
โ Explain why you canโt do something using ๋ชป (Cannot).
๐๏ธ First, letโs review some important words related to appointments and scheduling.
Common Terms ๐
โข ๋ชจ์ โ Meeting/Gathering
โข ์น๊ตฌ ๋ชจ์ โ Friendsโ meeting
โข ๋ฐ ๋ชจ์ โ Class meeting
โข ์ง์ฅ ๋ชจ์ โ Workplace meeting
โข ์ฝ์ โ Appointment/Promise
โข ์ฝ์ํ๋ค โ To make an appointment
โข ์ฝ์์ ์งํค๋ค โ To keep a promise
โข ์ฝ์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ ํ๋ค โ To set an appointment time
KIIP 1: Unit 13โEssential Words and Phrases about Transportation
Saison 1 ยท รpisode 13
mardi 4 fรฉvrier 2025 โข Durรฉe 14:00
๐๏ธ Welcome to the Self-Study Korean Podcast, your guide to mastering the Korean language and culture. In todayโs episode, weโre diving into Unit 13, where youโll learn how to talk about transportation in Korea. By the end of this episode, youโll be able to describe different modes of transportation, ask for directions, and talk about your commute with essential expressions!
๐๏ธ Letโs start by reviewing key vocabulary related to transportation in Korea.
Transportation Types ๐๐โ๏ธ
โข ์๋์ฐจ โ Car
โข ์งํ์ฒ โ Subway
โข ์คํ ๋ฐ์ด โ Motorcycle
โข ๊ฑธ์ด์ โ On foot
โข ์์ ๊ฑฐ โ Bicycle
โข ํ์ โ Taxi
โข ๋ฒ์ค โ Bus
โข ์ ๋ฅ์ฅ โ Bus stop
โข ๊ณตํญ โ Airport
โข ๋นํ๊ธฐ โ Airplane
โข ์งํ์ฒ ์ญ โ Subway station
โข ๊ธฐ์ฐจ์ญ โ Train station
โข ๊ธฐ์ฐจ โ Train
KIIP 1: Unit 12โEssential Words and Phrases about Holidays and Vacations
Saison 1 ยท รpisode 12
lundi 27 janvier 2025 โข Durรฉe 14:36
๐๏ธ Welcome to the Self-Study Korean Podcast, your guide to mastering the Korean language and culture. In todayโs episode, weโre diving into Unit 12, where youโll learn how to talk about holidays (ํด์ผ) and vacations (ํด๊ฐ). By the end of this episode, youโll be able to describe your plans, share activities, and link multiple actions in Korean!
๐๏ธ Letโs start by reviewing vocabulary for activities during holidays and vacations.
Activities on Holidays (ํด์ผ)
Here are some things you might do on a holiday:
โข ๊ณต์์์ ๋๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค โ To play basketball at the park
โข ์ปดํจํฐ ๊ฒ์์ ํ๋ค โ To play computer games
โข ์ฌํ์ ๊ฐ๋ค โ To go on a trip
โข ๊ฐ์กฑํ๊ณ ์ธ์ํ๋ค โ To dine out with family
โข ์์ดํ๊ณ ๋์ด๊ณต์์ ๊ฐ๋ค โ To go to an amusement park with kids
โข ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถํ๋ค โ To study Korean diligently
โข ํ๊ตญ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ค โ To learn Korean cooking
โข ๋ฎ์ ์ ์๋ค โ To take a nap
โข ์น๊ตฌ ์ง์ ๋๋ฌ ๊ฐ๋ค โ To visit a friendโs house
KIIP 1: Unit 11โEssential Words and Phrases about Special Days and Activities
Saison 1 ยท รpisode 11
dimanche 19 janvier 2025 โข Durรฉe 13:18
๐๏ธ Welcome to the Self-study Korean Podcast, your guide to mastering Korean language and culture. In todayโs episode, weโll explore Unit 11, where we focus on talking about special days, celebrations, and related activities. By the end of this episode, youโll be able to discuss special occasions, express gratitude, and use honorifics to show respect in Korean.
๐๏ธ Letโs start with the essential vocabulary. This unit is divided into three categories: Verbs, Special Days, and Other Vocabulary.
Verbs
Here are common action words related to special days:
โข ์ฃผ๋ค โ To give
โข ๋ณด๋ด๋ค โ To send
โข ๋ฐ๋ค โ To receive
โข ์ด๋๋ฅผ ํ๋ค โ To invite
โข ์ด๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ค โ To be invited
โข ์ ๋ฌผ์ ํ๋ค โ To give a gift
โข ์ ๋ฌผ์ ๋ฐ๋ค โ To receive a gift
โข ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค โ To talk
โข ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๋ค โ To listen to a conversation
โข ์ ํ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค โ To make a phone call
โข ์ ํ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ค โ To receive a phone call
KIIP 1 : Unit 10โEssential Words and Phrases about Family Relations and Korean Honorifics
Saison 1 ยท รpisode 10
dimanche 12 janvier 2025 โข Durรฉe 14:55
๐๏ธ Welcome to the Self-study Korean Podcast, your guide to mastering Korean language and culture. In todayโs episode, weโll explore Unit 10, where we focus on talking about family and using Korean honorifics. By the end of this episode, youโll be able to describe your family, ask about othersโ families, and use honorific expressions to show respect in Korean conversations.
๐๏ธ Letโs begin with some essential vocabulary. This unit is divided into three categories: Family Members, Honorific Expressions, and Others.
Family Members
Here are common words for family members:
โข ๊ฐ์กฑ โ Family
โข ํ ์๋ฒ์ง โ Grandfather (paternal)
โข ํ ๋จธ๋ โ Grandmother (paternal)
โข ์ธํ ์๋ฒ์ง โ Grandfather (maternal)
โข ์ธํ ๋จธ๋ โ Grandmother (maternal)
โข ์๋ฒ์ง โ Father
โข ์๋น โ Dad
โข ์ด๋จธ๋ โ Mother
โข ์๋ง โ Mom
โข ์ฌ์ โ Woman
KIIP 1: Unit 9โEssential Words and Phrases about Weekend Activities
Saison 1 ยท รpisode 9
dimanche 5 janvier 2025 โข Durรฉe 11:01
๐๏ธ Welcome to the Self-study Korean Podcast, your guide to mastering Korean language and culture. In todayโs episode, weโll explore Unit 9, where we focus on weekend activities. By the end of this episode, youโll be able to talk about weekend activities, from relaxing at home to visiting markets or spending time with friends in Korean.
๐๏ธ This phrase is useful when you need to find a service or registration location.
Rules and Prohibitions
๊ณต์์์ ์๋๋ฐญ์ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ์ง ๋ง์ธ์.
(Donโt enter the grass field in the park.)
๊ณต์ฐ์ฅ ์์์ ์ฌ์ง์ ์ฐ์ง ๋ง์ธ์.
(Donโt take photos inside the performance venue.)
์ํ ์๊ฐ์ ๋งํ์ง ๋ง์ธ์.
(Donโt talk during the exam.)
์ฌ๋ฌด์ค์์ ๋ด๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ํผ์ฐ์ง ๋ง์ธ์.
(Donโt smoke in the office.)
๐๏ธ These phrases help you follow public rules and restrictions in Korean.
Quiz Time!
Question 1:
How do you say โGo to the left.โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ์ผ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ธ์.
Question 2:
How do you say โDonโt take photos in the performance venue.โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ๊ณต์ฐ์ฅ ์์์ ์ฌ์ง์ ์ฐ์ง ๋ง์ธ์.
Question 3:
How do you say โThe restaurant is on the 7th floor.โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ์๋น์ 7์ธต์ ์์ด์.
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Conclusion
๐๏ธ Thatโs all for todayโs episode on Unit 17 โ Public Places and Activities!
๐๏ธ Be sure to review this lesson and practice using these words and phrases in everyday situations. Visit KoreanTopik.comโ for more learning resources, and stay tuned for our next episode!
๐๏ธ Thank you for listening, and as always, happy studying!
โข ์๊ณผ โ Ophthalmology (Eye clinic)
โข ์น๊ณผ โ Dental clinic
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Health-Related Verbs and Expressions ๐
โข ์ํ๋ค โ To be sick/hurt
โข ๊ฐ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋ค โ To catch a cold
โข ๋์ด ์ํ๋ค โ Eyes hurt
โข ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ถ๋ฌ์ง๋ค โ To break a leg
โข ์๊ฐ์ฐจ โ Ginger tea
โข ํน ์ฌ๋ค โ To rest well
โข ๋ณ์์ ๊ฐ๋ค โ To go to the hospital
โข ์ฝ์ ๋จน๋ค โ To take medicine
โข ๋นํ๋ฏผ C โ Vitamin C
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Key Phrases to Practice
๐๏ธ Now, letโs practice some useful phrases that will help you describe symptoms, seek help, and give advice.
Describing Symptoms and Seeking Help
์ด๊ฐ ์ํ์.
My tooth hurts.
โ ๊ทธ๋ผ, ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์น๊ณผ์ ๊ฐ์ธ์.
(Then, go to the dentist quickly.)
๐๏ธ You can replace ์ด๊ฐ ์ํ์ (My tooth hurts) with:
๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ์ํ์. (My stomach hurts.)
or
๋์ด ์ํ์. (My eyes hurt.)
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์ด์ ์ ๋ณ์์ ๊ฐ์ด์?
Why did you go to the hospital yesterday?
โ ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ์ํ์ ๋ณ์์ ๊ฐ์ด์.
(I went to the hospital because my stomach hurt.)
๐๏ธ This phrase is useful for talking about past health issues.
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์ด๋ ๋ณ์์ ๊ฐ์?
Which hospital are you going to?
โ ๋์ด ์ํ์ ์๊ณผ์ ๊ฐ์.
(Iโm going to the eye clinic because my eyes hurt.)
๐๏ธ You can also say:
์ด๊ฐ ์ํ์ ์น๊ณผ์ ๊ฐ์. (Iโm going to the dentist because my tooth hurts.)
or
๊ฐ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฑธ๋ ค์ ๋ด๊ณผ์ ๊ฐ์. (Iโm going to internal medicine because I caught a cold.)
(Really? Then, itโs good to go to the hospital quickly.)
๐๏ธ This phrase can be adapted to other situations, like work or appointments.
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Explaining Situations
์ด์ ๋ ํผ๊ณคํด์ ์ง์์ ์ฌ์์ด์.
I was tired yesterday, so I rested at home.
์ ๋ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฑธ๋ ค์ ์ฝ์ ๋จน์์ด์.
I caught a cold, so I took medicine.
๐๏ธ These phrases help you explain why you did something because of health reasons.
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Quiz Time!
Question 1:
How do you say โI couldnโt sleep because my throat hurt.โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ๋ชฉ์ด ์ํ์ ์ ์ ๋ชป ์ค์ด์.
Question 2:
How do you say โItโs good to rest well when youโre sick.โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ์ํ ๋ ํน ์ฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ข์์.
Question 3:
How do you say โI caught a cold, so I took medicine.โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ๊ฐ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฑธ๋ ค์ ์ฝ์ ๋จน์์ด์.
๐๏ธ How did you do? Keep practicing, and soon youโll feel confident talking about health in Korean!
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๐๏ธ Thatโs all for todayโs episode on Unit 16 โ Health and Hospital!
๐๏ธ Be sure to review this lesson and practice using these words and phrases in everyday situations. Visit KoreanTopik.com for more learning resources, and stay tuned for our next episode!
๐๏ธ Thank you for listening, and as always, happy studying! ๐๐ง
โข ๋์ฐ๋งค๋ฅผ ํ๋ค โ To go sledding
โข ์คํค๋ฅผ ํ๋ค โ To ski
โข ์ฌ๊ณ์ โ Four seasons
Weather (๋ ์จ) ๐ค๏ธ๐ง๏ธโ๏ธ
โข ์๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ผ๋ค โ To be foggy
โข ๋์ด ์ค๋ค โ To snow
โข ์ฒ๋ฅ์ด ์น๋ค โ Thunder strikes
โข ๋ฒ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์น๋ค โ Lightning strikes
โข ๋ง๋ค โ To be clear
โข ๊ตฌ๋ฆ์ด ๋ผ๋ค โ To be cloudy
โข ํ๋ฆฌ๋ค โ To be overcast
โข ๋น๊ฐ ์ค๋ค โ To rain
โข ๋ฐ๋์ด ๋ถ๋ค โ To be windy
Other Useful Words
โข ์ธ๊ตฌ โ Population
โข ๋งค์ฐ โ Very
๐๏ธ These words will help you describe the weather and seasons in daily conversations.
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Key Phrases to Practice
๐๏ธ Now, letโs practice some useful phrases for talking about the weather and seasons.
Talking About the Weather
์ง๊ธ ์์ธ ๋ ์จ๊ฐ ์ด๋์?
โ How is the weather in Seoul right now?
โ ๋ง์์.
(Itโs clear.)
์์ฆ ๊ณ ํฅ ๋ ์จ๊ฐ ์ด๋์?
โ Howโs the weather in your hometown these days?
โ ์์ฆ์ ๋น๊ฐ ๋ง์ด ์์.
(Itโs raining a lot these days.)
๋ฌ์์ ๊ฒจ์ธ ๋ ์จ๋ ์ด๋์?
โ How is the winter weather in Russia?
โ ๋ฌ์์๋ ํ๊ตญ๋ณด๋ค ์ถ์์.
(Russia is colder than Korea.)
๐๏ธ These phrases are very useful when discussing weather conditions with friends or colleagues.
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Expressing Surprise or Admiration
๐๏ธ Sometimes, we want to express admiration or surprise about the weather or the seasons. Try using these phrases!
์! ๊ฝ์ด ๋ง์ด ํผ์๋ค์.
โ Wow! So many flowers have bloomed!
์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์กฑ ์ฌ์ง์ด์์.
โ This is my family photo.
โ ์์ด๊ฐ ์ ๋ง ์์๋ค์.
(Your child is so pretty!)
์ค๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด ์์ ์ด ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๋ค์.
โ Todayโs Korean class is fun!
๐๏ธ These expressions help make conversations more natural and engaging!
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Comparing Preferences
๐๏ธ Now, letโs practice making comparisons using "๋ณด๋ค" (than).
โ Clothes at the department store are more expensive than at the market.
๐๏ธ Using these comparison phrases makes your conversations more dynamic and detailed.
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Quiz Time!
๐๏ธ Itโs Quiz Time!
Question 1:
How do you say โThe autumn leaves are more beautiful than the flowers.โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ๋จํ์ด ๊ฝ๋ณด๋ค ์๋ฆ๋ค์์.
Question 2:
How do you say โWow! Itโs very foggy today.โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ์! ์ค๋ ์๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋งค์ฐ ๋ง์ด ๊ผ๋ค์.
๐๏ธ Fill in the blank with the correct word!
ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ฌ์์______ ๋ฐ๋ปํด์.
(Korea is warmer than Russia.)
๐๏ธ The correct answer is ๋ณด๋ค.
So, the full sentence is: ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ฌ์์๋ณด๋ค ๋ฐ๋ปํด์.
์ค๋ ๋ ์จ๊ฐ ์ ๋ง ์ข______!
(The weather is really nice today!)
๐๏ธ The correct answer is ๋ค์.
So, the full sentence is: ์ค๋ ๋ ์จ๊ฐ ์ ๋ง ์ข๋ค์!
๐๏ธ How did you do? Keep practicing, and soon youโll be comfortable using these expressions in real conversations!
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Conclusion
๐๏ธ Thatโs all for todayโs episode on Unit 15 โ Seasons and Weather!
๐๏ธ Be sure to review this lesson and practice using these words and phrases in real-life conversations. Visit koreantopik.com for more learning resources, and stay tuned for our next episode!
๐๏ธ Thank you for listening, and as always, happy studying! ๐๐ธโ๏ธ
โข ์ฝ์ ์ฅ์๋ฅผ ์ ํ๋ค โ To set an appointment place
โข ์ฝ์ ์ฅ์๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ค โ To change the appointment place
โข ์ฝ์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฆ๋ค โ To be late for an appointment
Explaining Situations ๐ค
โข ์ผ์ด ๋ง๋ค โ To have a lot of work
โข ์ผ๊ทผ์ ํ๋ค โ To work overtime
โข ํ์์ด ์๋ค โ To have a company dinner
โข ๋ชธ์ด ์ํ๋ค โ To be sick
โข ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋ชจ์์ด ์๋ค โ To have a family gathering
โข ์ํ์ด ์๋ค โ To have an exam
Other Useful Words
โข ๊ฐ์ด โ Together
โข ๊ทธ๋์ โ So/Therefore
โข ๋ชป โ Cannot
โข ๋ต์ฅํ๋ค โ To reply (to a message)
โข ์ โ New
๐๏ธ These words will help you discuss plans and explain scheduling conflicts with ease!
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Key Phrases to Practice
๐๏ธ Now, letโs practice some key phrases for making plans and explaining why you canโt attend an event.
Making Plans ๐๏ธ
1. ์ปคํผ ๋ง์ค๊น์?
โ Shall we drink coffee?
โ ๋ค, ์ข์์. ๊ฐ์ด ๋ง์ ์.
(Yes, that sounds good. Letโs drink together.)
2. ๋ด์ผ ๋ช ์์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์?
โ What time shall we meet tomorrow?
โ 11์์ ๋ง๋์.
(Letโs meet at 11.)
3. ์์ ๋๋๊ณ ๋ฌด์์ ํ ๊น์?
โ What shall we do after class?
โ ๊ฐ์ด ์์ ๋ฅผ ํด์.
(Letโs do homework together.)
๐๏ธ Try using Verb + ใน/์๊น์? when suggesting plans!
๐๏ธ ๋ชป + Verb is very useful for explaining why you canโt do something. Use it to politely decline invitations or explain situations.
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Quiz Time!
๐๏ธ Alright, itโs Quiz Time! Iโll say a sentence in English, and your task is to translate it into Korean. Iโll pause after each question to give you time to think. Ready? Letโs go!
Question 1: How do you say โShall we meet at the park tomorrow?โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ๋ด์ผ ๊ณต์์์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์?
Question 2: How do you say โWhy didnโt you attend the meeting?โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ์ ๋ชจ์์ ์ ๊ฐ์ด์?
Question 3: Fill in the blank:
โข ์ค๋ ๊ฐ์ด ์ํ๋ฅผ ______? (Shall we watch a movie together today?)
๐๏ธ The answer is: ๋ณผ๊น์?
โข ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ์ํ์ ์ ์ฌ์ ______. (My stomach hurts, so I couldnโt eat lunch.)
๐๏ธ The answer is: ๋ชป ๋จน์์ด์.
๐๏ธ How did you do? Keep practicing, and youโll improve quickly!
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๐๏ธ Thatโs all for todayโs episode on Unit 14 โ Scheduling and Appointments! Youโve learned:
โ๏ธ How to make plans and appointments
โ๏ธ How to politely decline plans
๐๏ธ Be sure to review this lesson and practice making plans in Korean. Visit KoreanTopik.com for more learning resources, and tune in next time for another useful lesson!
๐๏ธ Thank you for listening, and as always, happy studying!
โข ๊ณ ์๋ฒ์ค โ Express bus
โข ๊ณ ์๋ฒ์ค ํฐ๋ฏธ๋ โ Express bus terminal
โข ํ์ ํ๋ ๊ณณ โ Taxi stand
Verbs and Activities
โข ํ๋ค โ To ride
โข ์ด์ ํ๋ค โ To drive
โข ํ์ ํ๋ค โ To exchange money
โข ์ํฌ โ Parcel
Places and Experiences
โข ๋จ์ฐ โ Mt. Namsan
โข ์ ๋ง๋ โ Observatory
โข ์ผ์ด๋ธ์นด โ Cable car
โข ๋์ค๊ตํต โ Public transportation
โข ์๋จ โ Means
๐๏ธ These words will help you navigate transportation in Korea and describe how you get around!
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Key Phrases to Practice
๐๏ธ Now, letโs practice some key phrases for talking about transportation.
Iโm going to the restaurant with my friends to eat lunch.
7. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์์ ์งํ์ฒ ๊น์ง ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ฐ์?
How do I get to the subway from here?
โ ๊ฑธ์ด์ ๊ฐ์ธ์. ๊ฐ๊น์์.
(Go on foot. Itโs close.)
๐๏ธ These phrases will be very useful when asking for directions or discussing travel plans!
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Quiz Time!
๐๏ธ Alright, itโs Quiz Time! Iโll give you some sentences in English, and your job is to translate them into Korean. Take your time and pause if needed.
Question 1: How do you say, โHow do you come to school? (I come by bus.)โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ํ๊ต์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์์? ๋ฒ์ค๋ก ์์.
Question 2: How do you say, โWhy did you come to Korea? (I came to study Korean.)โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ์์ด์? ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋ถํ๋ฌ ์์ด์.
Final Question: Complete the sentence using -(์ผ)๋ก:
โข ๊ณตํญ์ ______. (I go to the airport by taxi.)
The answer is: ๊ณตํญ์ ํ์๋ก ๊ฐ์.
๐๏ธ How did you do? Keep practicing to get more comfortable with these expressions!
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Conclusion
๐๏ธ Thatโs all for todayโs episode on Unit 13 โ Transportation. Youโve learned essential vocabulary, key phrases, and grammar points to talk about how you travel and ask for directions. These skills will help you navigate Korea and communicate your travel plans confidently!
๐๏ธ Be sure to review this lesson and practice speaking out loud. Visit KoreanTopik.com for more learning resources, and join us next time for another useful lesson!
๐๏ธ Thank you for listening, and as always, happy studying! ๐โ๏ธ๐ด
Activities on Vacation (ํด๊ฐ)
For longer breaks, here are some fun vacation activities:
โข ๋ฐ๋ค โ Sea
โข ์์์ ํ๋ค โ To swim
โข ๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค โ To ride a boat
โข ๋์๋ฅผ ํ๋ค โ To go fishing
โข ์ฐ โ Mountain
โข ๋ฑ์ฐ์ ํ๋ค โ To hike
โข ์บ ํ์ ํ๋ค โ To camp
โข ๊ฝ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝ์ ํ๋ค โ To go flower viewing
โข ๋์ด๊ณต์ โ Amusement park
โข ๋๋ฌผ์ ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝํ๋ค โ To watch animals
โข ๋์ด ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค โ To go on rides
โข ๋ถ๊ฝ๋์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ค โ To watch fireworks
โข ๊ณ ํฅ โ Hometown
โข ๊ณ ํฅ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ๋ง๋๋ค โ To meet hometown friends
โข ๋ถ๋ชจ๋์ ๋ง๋๋ค โ To meet parents
โข ๊ณ ํฅ ์์์ ๋จน๋ค โ To eat hometown food
Additional Vocabulary
Here are some extra words you might find useful:
โข ์ธ์ผ์ฐจ โ Ginseng tea
โข ํ์ฅํ โ Cosmetics
โข ์น์ฒ โ Relatives
โข ๋นจ๋ฆฌ โ Quickly
โข ์์ฐ โ Ansan city
๐๏ธ These words will help you describe your holiday or vacation plans in detail!
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Key Phrases to Practice
๐๏ธ Next, letโs practice key phrases to discuss holidays and vacations.
๐๏ธ Practice these phrases to describe your plans or ask about someone elseโs!
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Quiz Time!
๐๏ธ Alright, itโs Quiz Time! Letโs test your knowledge. Iโll say a sentence in English, and youโll translate it into Korean. Take your time and pause if needed.
Question 1: How would you say, โWhat are you going to do this weekend?โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ๋ง์ ๋ญ ํ ๊ฑฐ์์?
Question 2: Translate: โIโm going to visit my parents and eat hometown food.โ
๐๏ธ The answer is: ๋ถ๋ชจ๋์ ๋ง๋๊ณ ๊ณ ํฅ ์์์ ๋จน์ ๊ฑฐ์์.
Final Question: Connect these actions using -๊ณ :
โข โI study Korean and learn Korean cooking.โ
โข ๐๏ธ The answer is: ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋ถํ๊ณ ํ๊ตญ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์์.
๐๏ธ How did you do? Donโt forget, practice makes perfect!
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Conclusion
๐๏ธ Thatโs all for todayโs episode on Unit 12 โ Holidays and Vacations. Youโve learned vocabulary, phrases, and grammar to talk about your plans and connect multiple actions. These skills are essential for discussing schedules and sharing experiences in Korean!
๐๏ธ Be sure to review this episode and practice describing your next vacation in Korean. Visit KoreanTopik.com for more resources, and join us next time for another lesson.
๐๏ธ Thank you for listening, and as always, happy studying! ๐
Special Days
Here are some common special days in Korea:
โข ์ด๋ฒ์ด๋ โ Parentsโ Day
โข ์ค์น์ ๋ โ Teachersโ Day
โข ์กธ์ ์ โ Graduation ceremony
โข ๊ฒฐํผ์ โ Wedding ceremony
โข ์์ผ โ Birthday
โข ์์ โ Birthday (honorific)
โข ์ฌ์ฑ์ ๋ โ Womenโs Day
โข ์ด๋ฆฐ์ด๋ โ Childrenโs Day
Other Vocabulary
A few more words youโll need:
โข ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ์ข๋ค โ To feel good
โข ๋ถ๋ชจ๋ โ Parents
โข ์ ์๋ โ Teacher
๐๏ธ These words will help you talk about giving and receiving gifts, expressing gratitude, and celebrating special occasions.
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Key Phrases to Practice
๐๏ธ Now, letโs practice some key phrases to help you talk about special days and activities:
โ In Korea, people buy gifts for children on Childrenโs Day.
๐๏ธ Combine these phrases with the vocabulary to talk about your experiences or ask about othersโ activities!
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Quiz Time!
๐๏ธ Alright, itโs Quiz Time! Letโs test your knowledge with a quick quiz. Iโll say a sentence in English, and your task is to translate it into Korean. Iโll pause after each question to give you time to think. Ready? Letโs begin!
First question: How would you say, โWhat do you do on Parentsโ Day?โ in Korean?
[Pause for listener to think]
๐๏ธ The answer is: ์ด๋ฒ์ด๋ ์ ๋ญ ํด์?
Next question: How would you say, โWho did you call yesterday?โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ์ด์ ๋๊ตฌ์๊ฒ ์ ํ๋ฅผ ํ์ด์?
Final question: How would you say, โPlease help me buy a gift for my friendโ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ์น๊ตฌ ์ ๋ฌผ ์ฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋์์ฃผ์ธ์.
Repeat after me: ์น๊ตฌ ์ ๋ฌผ ์ฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋์์ฃผ์ธ์.
๐๏ธ How did you do? Donโt worry if you made mistakes โ thatโs part of the learning process.
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Conclusion
๐๏ธ Thatโs all for todayโs episode on Unit 11 โ Special Days and Activities. In this lesson, youโve learned essential vocabulary, phrases, and grammar for talking about special occasions and showing respect through honorifics.
๐๏ธ Be sure to review this lesson and practice talking about your own special days or asking about othersโ. Visit KoreanTopik.com for additional resources, and stay tuned for our next episode.
๐๏ธ Thank you for listening, and as always, happy studying!
โข ์ธ๋ โ Older sister (female speaker)
โข ์ค๋น โ Older brother (female speaker)
โข ๋จ์ โ Man
โข ํ โ Older brother (male speaker)
โข ๋๋ โ Older sister (male speaker)
โข ๋จ๋์ โ Younger brother
โข ์ฌ๋์ โ Younger sister
Honorific Expressions
These are common honorific forms in Korean:
โข ์ด๋ฆ / ์ฑํจ โ Name
โข ๋์ด / ์ฐ์ธ โ Age
โข ์์ผ / ์์ โ Birthday
โข ๋ช / ๋ถ โ Person (counting unit)
โข ์๋ค / ๊ณ์๋ค โ To be/exist
โข ๋จน๋ค, ๋ง์๋ค / ๋์๋ค, ์ก์์๋ค โ To eat, to drink
โข ์๋ค / ์ฃผ๋ฌด์๋ค โ To sleep
โข ์ฃฝ๋ค / ๋์๊ฐ์๋ค โ To die/pass away
โข ๋งํ๋ค / ๋ง์ํ์๋ค โ To speak/say
Others
โข ๋ถ๋ชจ๋ โ Parents
โข ์ด๋ฑํ์ โ Elementary school student
โข ์คํ์ โ Middle school student
โข ๊ณ ๋ฑํ์ โ High school student
๐๏ธ Make sure to remember these words, as they will help you describe your family and interact politely with others!
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Key Phrases to Practice
๐๏ธ Now, letโs practice some useful phrases for talking about family and using honorifics:
Talking About Family Members
1. ๊ฐ์กฑ์ด ๋ช ๋ช ์ด์์? (How many family members do you have?)
(My older brother is an office worker, but I am a student.)
๐๏ธ These phrases are great for discussing family and learning how to use honorifics in real-life conversations.
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Quiz Time!
First question: How would you say, โHow many family members do you have?โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ๊ฐ์กฑ์ด ๋ช ๋ช ์ด์์?
Next question: How would you say, โWhat does your grandmother do in her free time?โ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ํ ๋จธ๋๊ฐ ์ฌ๊ฐ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ญ ํ์ธ์?
Final question: How would you say, โMy father is a doctor, but I am a studentโ in Korean?
๐๏ธ The answer is: ์๋ฒ์ง๋ ์์ฌ์ง๋ง ์ ๋ ํ์์ด์์.
๐๏ธ How did you do? Keep practicing these sentences to build your confidence in Korean!
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Conclusion
๐๏ธ Thatโs all for todayโs episode on Unit 10 โ Family Relations and Korean Honorifics. In this lesson, youโve learned essential vocabulary, phrases, and honorific expressions that will help you talk about your family and communicate respectfully in Korean.
๐๏ธ Thank you for listening, and as always, happy studying!
โข ๊ณต์ โ Park
โข ์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค โ Ride a bicycle
โข ๊ณต๋์ด๋ฅผ ํ๋ค โ Play ball
โข ์์ฅ โ Market
โข ๊ณผ์ผ์ ์ฌ๋ค โ Buy fruits
โข ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ฌ๋ค โ Buy shoes
โข ๋ฐฑํ์ โ Department store
โข ์ผํํ๋ค โ Shop
โข ์ ๋ ์ ๋จน๋ค โ Have dinner
โข ์นดํ โ Cafe
โข ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค โ Talk
โข ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ง์๋ค โ Drink tea
โข ์ง โ Home
โข ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค โ Eat a meal
โข ํ ๋ ๋น์ ์ ๋ณด๋ค โ Watch TV
โข ํ์ฌ โ Company
โข ์ผํ๋ค โ Work
โข ์ ํ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ค โ Answer a call
๐๏ธ These words will help you describe your weekend and talk about your favorite activities!
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Key Phrases to Practice
๐๏ธ Letโs move on to some key phrases you can use to talk about your weekends:
Talking About Weekend Plans
1. ์ฃผ๋ง์ ๋ญ ํด์? (What do you do on the weekend?)
โ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์์. (I learn Korean.)
2. ์ง๋ ์ฃผ๋ง์ ๋ญ ํ์ด์? (What did you do last weekend?)
โ ์์ฅ์์ ๊ฐ์ด์. (I went to the market.)
3. ์ด์ ๋ญ ํ์ด์? (What did you do yesterday?)
โ ๋๋ผ๋ง๋ฅผ ๋ดค์ด์. ์ฌ๋ฏธ์์์ด์. (I watched a drama. It was fun.)
Expressing Preferences
4. ๋ฌด์จ ์ด๋์ ์ข์ํด์? (What sports do you like?)
โ ์ ๋ ์์์ ์ข์ํด์. ์ถ๊ตฌ๋ ์ข์ํด์. (I like swimming. I also like soccer.)
5. ์์ฅ์์ ๋ญ ์์ด์? (What did you buy at the market?)
โ ํฌ๋๋ฅผ ์์ด์. ์๋ฐ๋ ์์ด์. (I bought grapes. I also bought a watermelon.)
๐๏ธ Practice these phrases to confidently share your plans and preferences!
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Quiz Time!
๐๏ธ Alright, itโs Quiz Time! Letโs test your knowledge with a quick quiz based on what weโve learned today. Iโll say a sentence in English, and your task is to translate it into Korean. Iโll pause after each question to give you some time to think. Ready? Letโs go!
First question: How would you say, โI rested at home last weekendโ in Korean?
Next question: How would you say, โI bought apples and also oranges at the marketโ in Korean?Final question: Create a sentence using -์/์- to describe an activity you did yesterday.
๐๏ธ How did you do? Remember, practice makes perfect!
๐๏ธ Thatโs all for todayโs episode on Unit 9 โ Weekend Activities. With these words, phrases, and expressions, youโll be ready to talk about your weekend plans, describe past events, and share your preferences in Korean.
๐๏ธ Be sure to review this lesson and practice using these phrases in real-life conversations. Donโt forget to visit KoreanTopik.com for more learning resources, and stay tuned for our next episode.
๐๏ธ Thank you for listening, and happy studying!