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🇰🇷 Korean · Fluency Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 5 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Soundcheck

Soundcheck before the first gig at Mr. Baek's club: play something because the bass isn't in the monitors, play what and anything, don't think and play, whoa the left monitor's dead, is that a rude word and no it's the soft one that even a mother says, oh dear the pedal's acting up too, then thirty minutes left and no cracked notes tonight.

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THE STORY

The stage of Mr. Baek's basement club at soundcheck, an hour before the first gig, Yu-na at the microphone and Tae-ho at the desk; the whole band speaks casually.

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쌤, 뭐 좀 쳐 봐. 베이스가 안 들려.ssaem, mwo jom chyeo bwa. be-i-seu-ga an deul-lyeo.Teach, play something. I can't hear the bass.
뭘 쳐? 아무거나?mwol chyeo? a-mu-geo-na?Play what? Anything?
아무거나. 생각하지 말고 쳐.a-mu-geo-na. saeng-ga-ka-ji mal-go chyeo.Anything. Don't think, play.
대박. 베이스 소리 좋다.dae-bak. be-i-seu so-ri jo-ta.Awesome. The bass sounds good.
헐, 왼쪽 모니터 죽었어.heol, oen-jjok mo-ni-teo ju-geo-sseo.Whoa, the left monitor's dead.
그거 나쁜 말이야?geu-geo na-ppeun ma-ri-ya?Is that a rude word?
아 진짜, 어이없네.a jin-jja, eo-i-eom-ne.Oh honestly, that's absurd.
엄마도 써eom-ma-do sseoeven my mother uses it: mother, the tag for even, uses
어머, 아니. 그건 순한 거야. 엄마도 써.eo-meo, a-ni. geu-geon su-nan geo-ya. eom-ma-do sseo.Oh my, no. That's the soft one. Even my mother uses it.
아이고, 내 페달도 이상해.a-i-go, nae pe-dal-do i-sang-hae.Oh dear, and my pedal's acting up too.

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