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🇰🇷 Korean · Beginner Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 17 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Rice cakes by the river

Rice cakes in hot sauce at a stall by the river: Min-jun offers the casual speech and calls Eli older brother; this is rice cakes, really tasty, very spicy, a little but tasty, eat more, drink water too, thanks.

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THE STORY

A snack stall by the Han river, a Saturday afternoon: Min-jun, five years younger than Eli, offers him the casual speech and calls him older brother. From here on the two of them speak casually, as friends do; Eli stays polite with everyone older.

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일라이 씨, 우리 반말 해요.il-la-i ssi, u-ri ban-mal hae-yo.Eli, let's drop the polite speech. (word for word: we, casual speech, do)
반말요? 네, 좋아요!ban-mal-lyo? ne, jo-a-yo!Casual speech? Yes, great!
그래. 형, 이거 떡볶이야.geu-rae. hyeong, i-geo tteok-bo-kki-ya.Right. Older brother, this is rice cakes.
응, 좋아.eung, jo-a.Yes, good.
응. 진짜 맛있어!eung. jin-jja ma-si-sseo!Yes. Really tasty!
형, 많이 매워?hyeong, ma-ni mae-wo?Older brother, is it very spicy?
그래도 맛있어.geu-rae-do ma-si-sseobut tasty: the word for but, then tasty
아니, 조금 매워. 그래도 맛있어.a-ni, jo-geum mae-wo. geu-rae-do ma-si-sseo.No, a little spicy. But tasty.
그럼 떡볶이 더 먹어.geu-reom tteok-bo-kki deo meo-geo.Then eat more rice cakes.
응, 고마워, 민준아!eung, go-ma-wo, min-ju-na!Yes, thanks, Min-jun!

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