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🇰🇷 Korean · Intermediate Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 13 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Half-moon rice cakes

The Kims' kitchen on Chuseok eve, Grandma, Su-a and Eli's mother at the rice cakes with Eli translating: tell your mother pine needles under the rice cakes, my mother asks why, because of the pine smell and a pretty cake means a pretty daughter, Grandma made these and aren't they pretty, Grandma has made them for sixty years, your mother's are fine too for a first time, she'll make them at home too, and with pine needles from the park, tell her that.

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THE STORY

The Kims' kitchen in Mangwon-dong on the evening before Chuseok, flour on the table, a basket of pine needles, Grandma, Su-a and Eli's mother shaping rice cakes while Eli translates. Grandma speaks casually to Eli; Eli is respectful to her; Su-a and Eli speak casually to each other.

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어머니한테 말해. 떡 밑에 솔잎.eo-meo-ni-han-te mal-hae. tteok mi-te sol-lip.Tell your mother: pine needles under the rice cakes.
어머니께서 물어보세요. 왜요?eo-meo-ni-kke-seo mu-reo-bo-se-yo. wae-yo?My mother asks: why?
아버지께서는 주무세요.a-beo-ji-kke-seo-neun ju-mu-se-yo.My father is sleeping.
솔 냄새 때문이야. 예쁜 송편, 예쁜 딸.sol naem-sae ttae-mu-ni-ya. ye-ppeun song-pyeon, ye-ppeun ttal.Because of the pine smell. A pretty cake, a pretty daughter.
할머니께서 만드셨어.hal-meo-ni-kke-seo man-deu-syeo-sseoGrandma made them: Grandma with the elder's particle, then made with the respect marker
할머니께서 만드셨어. 예쁘지?hal-meo-ni-kke-seo man-deu-syeo-sseo. ye-ppeu-ji?Grandma made these. Pretty, right?
육십 년 동안 만드셨어요.yuk-ssip nyeon dong-an man-deu-syeo-sseo-yo.You've made them for sixty years.
어머니 송편도 괜찮아. 처음인데!eo-meo-ni song-pyeon-do gwaen-cha-na. cheo-eu-min-de!Your mother's rice cakes are fine too. For a first time!
집에서도 만드실 거예요.ji-be-seo-do man-deu-sil kkeo-ye-yo.She'll make them at home too.
공원 솔잎으로. 그렇게 말해.gong-won sol-li-peu-ro. geu-reo-ke mal-hae.With pine needles from the park. Tell her that.