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🇰🇷 Korean · Fluency Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 10 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Reading night

Reading night in the Mapo library's children's room, Su-a and Ha-eun in the front row, Eli reads The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon whole: the reader is Eli Brooks, my hands are shaking, even if the sky falls there's a hole to climb out, the hole is the first sentence, dried persimmon, right then the baby stopped, it turned out the persimmon was a dried fruit, Ha-eun shouted tiger, before the persimmon breathe three times, and at Chuseok everyone wants a story.

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THE STORY

The children's room of the Mapo library on a Saturday evening, a dozen families on the floor and Su-a with Ha-eun in the front row; Ms. Seo speaks formally to the room and politely to Eli, Eli politely to her and in the storyteller's ending to the room, Su-a casually.

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낭독자는 일라이 브룩스입니다.nang-dok-jja-neun il-la-i beu-ruk-sseu-im-ni-da.The reader is Eli Brooks.
선생님, 손이 떨려요.seon-saeng-nim, so-ni tteol-lyeo-yo.Ms. Seo, my hands are shaking.
구멍은 첫 문장이에요.gu-meong-eun cheon mun-jang-i-e-yo.The hole is the first sentence.
하늘이 무너져도 솟아날 구멍이 있다.ha-neu-ri mu-neo-jyeo-do so-sa-nal gu-meong-i it-tta.Even if the sky falls there's a hole to climb out.
곶감! 바로 그때 아기가 뚝 그쳤대요.got-kkam! ba-ro geu-ttae a-gi-ga ttuk geu-chyeot-ttae-yo.Dried persimmon! Right then the baby stopped, they say.
알고 보니 곶감은 말린 감이었대요.al-go bo-ni got-kka-meun mal-lin ga-mi-eot-ttae-yo.It turned out the persimmon was a dried fruit, they say.
하은이가 호앙이라고 소리쳤어.ha-eu-ni-ga ho-ang-i-ra-go so-ri-chyeo-sseo.Ha-eun shouted tiger.
곶감 앞에서 세 번 쉬세요.got-kkam a-pe-seo se beon swi-se-yo.Before the persimmon, breathe three times.
추석엔 다들 이야기를 원해요.chu-seo-gen da-deul i-ya-gi-reul won-hae-yo.At Chuseok everyone wants a story.