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🇰🇷 Korean · Fluency Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 5 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Gold Axe and the Silver Axe

The Mapo library, no book today: Eli tells The Gold Axe and the Silver Axe alone on the five words a story walks on: then a mountain spirit appeared, my axe is the iron one, so he gave him all three axes, but then the greedy neighbour heard, while that went on the spirit vanished, at last he lost even his iron axe, with five words the story walks, the trusted axe cuts your foot, and a proverb is salt, just a pinch.

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THE STORY

The reading room of the Mapo library on a Saturday morning, the book shut; Eli tells the tale in the plain written ending of a book, the woodcutter formally to the spirit, and Ms. Seo and Mr. Yun speak politely.

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그러자 산신령이 나타났다.geu-reo-ja san-sil-lyeong-i na-ta-nat-tta.Then a mountain spirit appeared.
제 도끼는 쇠도끼입니다.je do-kki-neun soe-do-kki-im-ni-da.My axe is the iron one.
그래서 세 도끼를 다 주었다.geu-rae-seo se do-kki-reul da ju-eot-tta.So he gave him all three axes.
그런데 욕심쟁이 이웃이 들었다.geu-reon-de yok-ssim-jaeng-i i-u-si deu-reot-tta.But then the greedy neighbour heard.
그러다가 산신령이 사라졌다.geu-reo-da-ga san-sil-lyeong-i sa-ra-jyeot-tta.While that went on, the spirit vanished.
마침내 쇠도끼마저 잃었다.ma-chim-nae soe-do-kki-ma-jeo i-reot-tta.At last he lost even his iron axe.
다섯 마디면 이야기가 걸어요.da-seot ma-di-myeon i-ya-gi-ga geo-reo-yo.With five words the story walks.
믿는 도끼에 발등 찍힌다. 이웃 얘기죠.min-neun do-kki-e bal-tteung jji-kin-da. i-ut yae-gi-jyo.The trusted axe cuts your foot. That's the neighbour's story.
속담은 소금이에요. 한 꼬집만요.sok-tta-meun so-geu-mi-e-yo. han kko-jim-ma-nyo.A proverb is salt. Just a pinch.