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🇰🇷 Korean · Fluency Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 18 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

A rehearsal that goes wrong

The practice room in Hongdae on a bad night: stop and what was that, a solo and it was a solo, you played like a robot falling down the stairs, and I played like a turtle and I know and don't say it, I've said it a hundred times and listen to each other, reading scripture into a cow's ear, it's been a thousand years since we rehearsed properly, and a thousand years is one week so from the top and don't rush.

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THE STORY

The basement practice room in Hongdae on a Tuesday night in December, a song stopped in the middle; the whole band speaks the casual speech, as always.

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스톱! 방금 그게 뭐야?seu-top! bang-geum geu-ge mwo-ya?Stop! What was that just now?
솔로. 솔로였어.sol-lo. sol-lo-yeo-sseo.A solo. That was a solo.
계단에서 넘어지는 로봇처럼gye-da-ne-seo neo-meo-ji-neun ro-bot-cheo-reomlike a robot falling down the stairs: stairs, from, falling, robot with the tag for like
계단에서 넘어지는 로봇처럼 쳤어.gye-da-ne-seo neo-meo-ji-neun ro-bot-cheo-reom chyeo-sseo.You played like a robot falling down the stairs.
난 거북이같이 쳤지. 알아, 말하지 마.nan geo-bu-gi-ga-chi chyeot-jji. a-ra, mal-ha-ji ma.And I played like a turtle. I know, don't say it.
백 번 말했잖아. 서로 들으라고.baek beon mal-haet-jja-na. seo-ro deu-reu-ra-go.I've said it a hundred times. Listen to each other.
배고파 죽겠어. 밥 먹고 하자.bae-go-pa juk-kke-sseo. bap meok-kko ha-ja.I'm starving to death. Let's eat first.
소 귀에 경 읽기야, 오빠.so gwi-e gyeong il-kki-ya, o-ppa.Reading scripture into a cow's ear, Eli.
제대로 연습한 게 천 년 만이야.je-dae-ro yeon-seu-pan ge cheon nyeon ma-ni-ya.It's been a thousand years since we rehearsed properly.
천 년이 일주일이야. 처음부터, 서두르지 말고.cheon nyeo-ni il-ju-i-ri-ya. cheo-eum-bu-teo, seo-du-reu-ji mal-go.A thousand years is one week. From the top, and don't rush.