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🇰🇷 Korean · Intermediate Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 8 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Mrs. Jeong drops in

Grandma's front room in Jeonju on Chuseok, her friend Mrs. Jeong from the market at the door: this is the American, before she married we sold rice cakes together, after I married I went to Seoul, before eating wash your hands, after that I sold alone forty years, before I came to Korea I couldn't even cook rice, and after you came, after a year I even make kimchi, before you leave make mine too.

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THE STORY

Grandma's front room in Jeonju on Chuseok afternoon, the rice cakes steaming, and Mrs. Jeong, Grandma's friend from the market for sixty years, at the door. Mrs. Jeong and Grandma speak casually, to each other and to Eli; Eli is respectful to both.

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이 사람이 미국 사람이야?i sa-ra-mi mi-guk sa-ra-mi-ya?This is the American?
결혼하기 전에gyeol-hon-ha-gi jeo-nebefore marrying: marry, with the noun ending, then the word for before
결혼하기 전에 같이 떡을 팔았어.gyeol-hon-ha-gi jeo-ne ga-chi tteo-geul pa-ra-sseo.Before she married, we sold rice cakes together.
결혼한 후에 서울에 갔어.gyeol-hon-han hu-e seo-u-re ga-sseo.After I married, I went to Seoul.
먹기 전에 손 씻어.meok-gi jeo-ne son ssi-seo.Before eating, wash your hands.
그 후에 혼자 팔았어. 사십 년.geu hu-e hon-ja pa-ra-sseo. sa-sip nyeon.After that I sold alone. Forty years.
한국에 오기 전에 밥도 못 했어요.han-gu-ge o-gi jeo-ne bap-do mot hae-sseo-yo.Before I came to Korea, I couldn't even cook rice.
그럼 온 후에는?geu-reom on hu-e-neun?And after you came?
일 년 후에 김치도 만들어요.il lyeon hu-e gim-chi-do man-deu-reo-yo.After a year, I even make kimchi.
가기 전에 내 것도 만들어.ga-gi jeo-ne nae geot-do man-deu-reo.Before you leave, make mine too.