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🇰🇷 Korean · Fluency Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 23 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Tae-ho's birthday

Tae-ho's birthday at his flat, seaweed soup on the table: happy birthday and its two-syllable twin, thirty-seven and don't ask, did your mother make the seaweed soup, back in my day nobody asked about soup, latte is a horse, what, when he starts that's what we say, and eat, take a selfie, I'm not old.

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THE STORY

Tae-ho's flat in Hongdae on his birthday, the band around a pot of seaweed soup; the whole band speaks casually, Ho-jin with the polite ending creeping back when he wants something.

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형, 생일 진짜 축하해.hyeong, saeng-il jin-jja chu-ka-hae.Bro, happy birthday, really.
형, 생축! 생파 언제 해?hyeong, saeng-chuk! saeng-pa eon-je hae?Bro, happy b-day! When's the party?
서른일곱이야. 묻지 마.seo-reun-il-go-bi-ya. mut-jji ma.Thirty-seven. Don't ask.
형, 선물 샀어. 베프니까.hyeong, seon-mul sa-sseo. be-peu-ni-kka.Bro, I bought a present. You're my best friend.
미역국은 어머니가 해 주셨어?mi-yeok-kku-geun eo-meo-ni-ga hae ju-syeo-sseo?Did your mother make the seaweed soup?
나 때는 말이야na ttae-neun ma-ri-yaback in my day: I, at the time, with the topic tag, then the filler that means I'm telling you
나 때는 말이야, 국 얘기는 안 물어봤어.na ttae-neun ma-ri-ya, guk yae-gi-neun an mu-reo-bwa-sseo.Back in my day, nobody asked about soup.
나왔다, 라떼는 말이야!na-wat-tta, ra-tte-neun ma-ri-ya!There it is: latte is a horse!
뭐? 라떼가 말이라고?mwo? ra-tte-ga ma-ri-ra-go?What? Latte is a horse?
태호 오빠가 시작하면 그렇게 말해.tae-ho o-ppa-ga si-ja-ka-myeon geu-reo-ke mal-hae.When Tae-ho starts, that's what we say.

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