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🇰🇷 Korean · Beginner Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 12 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Kimchi-making day: the paste

The kitchen on kimchi-making day, counting what there is: how many heads of cabbage, forty, how many of us, five people and eight heads each, how many heads of garlic, ten, Grandma, how many years have you made kimchi, seventy, me one day, come again next year, then two days.

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THE STORY

The kitchen of the Kims' flat on kimchi-making day, the salted cabbage drained, the paste in a tub. Mrs. Park and Ji-yeong speak politely to Eli; Grandma speaks casually to him and to Ji-yeong, who answer her respectfully.

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배추 몇 포기예요?bae-chu myeot po-gi-ye-yo?How many heads of cabbage?
마흔 포기요, 어머님.ma-heun po-gi-yo, eo-meo-nim.Forty heads, Mother.
배추 한 포기 얼마예요?bae-chu han po-gi eol-ma-ye-yo?How much is one head of cabbage?
그럼 우리는 몇 명이에요?geu-reom u-ri-neun myeon myeong-i-e-yo?Then how many of us?
다섯 명이요. 여덟 포기씩이요.da-seon myeong-i-yo. yeo-deol po-gi-ssi-gi-yo.Five people. Eight heads each.
마늘은 몇 통이야?ma-neu-reun myeot tong-i-ya?Garlic, how many heads?
열 통이요, 할머니.yeol tong-i-yo, hal-meo-ni.Ten heads, Grandma.
몇 년 하셨어요?myeon nyeon ha-syeo-sseo-yohow many years have you done it, respectfully: how many years, then do with the respectful syllable and the past ending
할머니, 김치 몇 년 하셨어요?hal-meo-ni, gim-chi myeon nyeon ha-syeo-sseo-yo?Grandma, how many years have you made kimchi?
나는 칠십 년이야.na-neun chil-sim nyeo-ni-ya.Me, seventy years.

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