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The picture book

Bedtime in Eli's flat in Mapo: Su-a brings home the folk-tale book her publishing house printed and Eli reads the start of The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon to Ha-eun: it came out today, read it to her, long ago, they say, there lived a tiger, slower, you're not reading the weather, the tiger came down to the village, Ha-eun said tiger, the end is tomorrow, I can't read the dried persimmon yet, I put your name down for the reading-aloud club, without asking me, and starting is half, I did your half.

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Lesson 1 · The picture book

Korean · 30 minutes

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Bedtime in Eli's flat in Mapo, the new folk-tale book on the bed and Ha-eun, two, listening; Eli and Su-a speak casually to each other, and Eli reads the tale in the storyteller's they-say ending.

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오늘 나왔어. 하은이한테 읽어 줘.o-neul na-wa-sseo. ha-eu-ni-han-te il-geo jwo.It came out today. Read it to Ha-eun.
호랑이가 살았대요.ho-rang-i-ga sa-rat-ttae-yoa tiger lived, they say: the past, then the tale's ending
옛날 옛적에 호랑이가 살았대요.yen-nal yet-jjeo-ge ho-rang-i-ga sa-rat-ttae-yo.Long ago, they say, there lived a tiger.
더 천천히. 날씨 읽는 거 아니야.deo cheon-cheon-hi. nal-ssi ing-neun geo a-ni-ya.Slower. You're not reading the weather.
호랑이가 마을에 내려왔대요.ho-rang-i-ga ma-eu-re nae-ryeo-wat-ttae-yo.The tiger came down to the village, they say.
하은이가 호앙이라고 했어!ha-eu-ni-ga ho-ang-i-ra-go hae-sseo!Ha-eun said tiger!
끝은 내일. 곶감은 아직 못 읽어.kkeu-teun nae-il. got-kka-meun a-jik mon nil-geo.The end is tomorrow. I can't read the dried persimmon yet.
낭독 모임에 네 이름 올렸어.nang-dok mo-i-me ne i-reum ol-lyeo-sseo.I put your name down for the reading-aloud club.
나한테 안 물어보고?na-han-te an mu-reo-bo-go?Without asking me?
시작이 반이다. 네 반은 내가 했어.si-ja-gi ba-ni-da. ne ba-neun nae-ga hae-sseo.Starting is half. I did your half.