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🇰🇷 Korean · Advanced Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 27 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The farewell

In the middle school's staff room at the end of August, Vice-principal Oh asks for a word: Eli has come to be leaving, he has come to be teaching at the high school, thanks to this staff room he came to speak Korean, and came to be married too, now he argues in Korean, the students made a book of letters, he'll read it at home or he'll end up crying, and crying is allowed today.

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THE STORY

The staff room of the middle school in Mapo on the last afternoon of August, the whole staff standing; Vice-principal Oh and Eli speak formally, as always at school, Ji-yeong and Eli politely to each other.

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일라이 선생님이 떠나게 됐습니다.il-la-i seon-saeng-ni-mi tteo-na-ge dwaet-sseum-ni-da.Eli has come to be leaving us.
고등학교에서 가르치게 됐습니다.go-deung-hak-kkyo-e-seo ga-reu-chi-ge dwaet-sseum-ni-da.I've come to be teaching at the high school.
지영 씨, 다 고마워요.ji-yeong ssi, da go-ma-wo-yo.Ji-yeong, thank you for everything.
덕분에 한국말을 하게 됐습니다.deok-bu-ne han-gung-ma-reul ha-ge dwaet-sseum-ni-da.Thanks to you, I came to speak Korean.
결혼도 하게 됐죠.gyeol-hon-do ha-ge dwaet-jjyo.You came to be married too.
이제 한국말로 싸웁니다.i-je han-gung-mal-lo ssa-um-ni-da.Now he argues in Korean.
학생들이 책을 만들었어요.hak-ssaeng-deu-ri chae-geul man-deu-reo-sseo-yo.The students made a book.
집에서 읽을게요. 울게 돼요.ji-be-seo il-geul-kke-yo. ul-ge dwae-yo.I'll read it at home. I'd end up crying.
여기서 우세요. 오늘은 됩니다.yeo-gi-seo u-se-yo. o-neu-reun doem-ni-da.Cry here. Today it's allowed.