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🇰🇷 Korean · Intermediate Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 8 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Min-jun plays the student

The Kims' kitchen on a Sunday, vinegar, baking soda, a bottle and a balloon, Grandma watching Eli rehearse with Min-jun as the student: I don't know whether this is science or cooking, I don't know whether it will grow so watch, I don't know what you two are doing, a lesson and I don't know whether they'll understand, speak loud since quiet is forgotten, I don't know whether your Korean is enough, I don't know whether yours is, wipe the table both of you.

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THE STORY

The Kims' kitchen in Mangwon on a Sunday afternoon in December, vinegar, baking soda, a bottle and a balloon on the table, Eli rehearsing his class, Min-jun playing the worst student, Grandma watching from her chair. In the play Min-jun and Eli are polite, as a student and a teacher; between themselves they are casual; Grandma is casual with Eli, and he is respectful to her.

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과학인지 요리인지gwa-ha-gin-ji yo-ri-in-jiwhether it's science or cooking: each noun with the whether tag
과학인지 요리인지 모르겠어요.gwa-ha-gin-ji yo-ri-in-ji mo-reu-ge-sseo-yo.I don't know whether this is science or cooking.
커질지 모르겠어요. 보세요.keo-jil-jji mo-reu-ge-sseo-yo. bo-se-yo.I don't know whether it will grow. Watch.
너희 둘이 뭐 하는지 모르겠네.neo-hui du-ri mwo ha-neun-ji mo-reu-gen-ne.I don't know what you two are doing.
잘 모르겠어요.jal mo-reu-ge-sseo-yo.I'm not sure.
수업이에요. 이해할지 모르겠어요.su-eo-bi-e-yo. i-hae-hal-jji mo-reu-ge-sseo-yo.A lesson. I don't know whether they'll understand.
크게 말해. 조용하면 잊혀.keu-ge mal-hae. jo-yong-ha-myeon i-chyeo.Speak loud. Quiet, and you're forgotten.
형 한국말이 충분한지 모르겠어.hyeong han-gung-ma-ri chung-bun-han-ji mo-reu-ge-sseo.I don't know whether your Korean is enough.
네 거는 충분한지 모르겠어.ne geo-neun chung-bun-han-ji mo-reu-ge-sseo.I don't know whether yours is.
둘 다 식탁 닦아.dul da sik-tak da-kka.Wipe the table, both of you.