LESSON TRANSCRIPT

Newbie S3 #20
Which Day of the Week Did You Say
in Korean?

CONTENTS
2 INTRODUCTION
3 DIALOGUE
5 POST CONVERSATION BANTER
6 VOCAB LIST
8 VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
11 LESSON FOCUS
16 OUTRO

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 INTRODUCTION

Minkyong: 안녕하세요. KoreanClass101의 민경입니다.

Keith: Hey and I am Keith. Welcome to Newbie Series, Season 3, Lesson 20. Which
Day of the Week Did You Say in Korean? Hello and welcome to the Newbie series,
Season 3 at KoreanClass101.com where we study modern Korean in a fun, educational
format.

Minkyong: So brush up on the Korean that you started learning long ago or start
learning today.

Keith: Thanks for being here with us for this lesson. All right, so in this lesson, you will
learn how to say the days of the week in Korean.

Minkyong: 월요일, 화요일, 수요일...

Keith: And so on. So where does this conversation take place?

Minkyong: The conversation is between two friends and one of them is planning to go
to Japan and the other is asking when.

Keith: So the speakers are speaking informal Korean.

Minkyong: 반말.

Keith: Now before we listen

Minkyong: We want to ask

Keith: Do you read the lesson notes while you listen?

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Minkyong: We received an email about the study tip.

Keith: So we are wondering if you’ve tried it and if so.

Minkyong: What do you think of it?

Keith: You can leave us feedback in the comments section of the lesson. Okay well,
are you ready to take a flight to Japan?

Minkyong: 네, 들어 봅시다.

DIALOGUE

태현: 언제 일본 가?

taehyeon: eonje ilbon ga?

앨리스: 화요일에 가.

aelliseu: hwayoil-e ga.

태현: 화요일? 오늘 화요일이야.

taehyeon: hwayoil? oneul hwayoil-iya.

앨리스: 아... 수요일에 가.

aelliseu: a... suyoil-e ga.

태현: 수요일? 아.. 내일 가?

taehyeon: suyoil? a... naeil ga?

앨리스: 어? 내일이 수요일? 미안. 금요일에 가.

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aelliseu: eo? naeil-i suyoil? mian. geumyoil-e ga.

태현: 정말이야?

taehyeon: jeongmal-iya?

앨리스: 정말 금요일이야.

aelliseu: jeongmal geumyoil-iya.

태현: 언제 일본 가?

taehyeon: eonje ilbon ga?

Taehyeon: When are you going to Japan?

앨리스: 화요일에 가.

aelliseu: hwayoil-e ga.

Aelliseu: I'm going this Tuesday.

태현: 화요일? 오늘 화요일이야.

taehyeon: hwayoil? oneul hwayoil-iya.

Taehyeon: Tuesday? Today is Tuesday.

앨리스: 아... 수요일에 가.

aelliseu: a... suyoil-e ga.

Aelliseu: Oh...I'm going this Wednesday.

태현: 수요일? 아.. 내일 가?

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taehyeon: suyoil? a... naeil ga?

Taehyeon: Wednesday? Oh...are you going tomorrow?

앨리스: 어? 내일이 수요일? 미안. 금요일에 가.

aelliseu: eo? naeil-i suyoil? mian. geumyoil-e ga.

Aelliseu: Huh? It’s Wednesday tomorrow? Sorry, I'm going on Friday.

태현: 정말이야?

taehyeon: jeongmal-iya?

Taehyeon: Are you sure?

앨리스: 정말 금요일이야.

aelliseu: jeongmal geumyoil-iya.

Aelliseu: I'm really going on Friday.

POST CONVERSATION BANTER

Keith: Hmm 앨리스 is not so organized.

Minkyong: Right. If I were going abroad, I will be counting days and hours and make
sure to know exactly when I am going.

Keith: Yeah. Maybe she was too excited and forgot everything. She is going over a lot
of names of the days of the week and that’s the focus of our lesson today but before
we take a look at the days of the week, Minkyong?

Minkyong: Yes.

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Keith: What are some of the top travel places for Koreans?

Minkyong: Japan is pretty popular.

Keith: Yeah they are pretty close. It’s about a 2 hour flight. What else do we have?

Minkyong: How about China like Hong Kong?

Keith: Yeah. A lot of Koreans go to China as well because it’s so close but before we
move on to the vocabulary really quickly, I am an American citizen. So if I wanted to
travel to China, I need a visa, I need a tourist visa to go there and I have to get it
separately. What about Koreans, do they need travel visas to go anywhere?

Minkyong: We don’t need a visa to go to Japan but we need a visa for China.

Keith: Oh so you are the same as me.

Minkyong: Umm.

Keith: All right, well let’s take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson.

Minkyong: Okay.

VOCAB LIST

Keith: The first word we are going to take a look at is

Minkyong: 언제

Keith: When.

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Minkyong: 언제 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 언제 [natural native speed]

Keith: Next we have

Minkyong: 일본

Keith: Japan.

Minkyong: 일본 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 일본 [natural native speed]

Keith: Next.

Minkyong: 가

Keith: I go, you go, they go, we go.

Minkyong: 가 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 가 [natural native speed]

Keith: Next

Minkyong: 오늘

Keith: Today.

Minkyong: 오늘 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 오늘 [natural native speed]

Keith: After that

Minkyong: 내일

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Keith: Tomorrow

Minkyong: 내일 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 내일 [natural native speed]

Keith: Next

Minkyong: 미안

Keith: Sorry

Minkyong: 미안 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 미안 [natural native speed]

Keith: And finally

Minkyong: 정말

Keith: Really

Minkyong: 정말 [slowly - broken down by syllable] 정말 [natural native speed]

VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE

Keith: All right. So let’s have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and
phrases from this lesson. The first word we are going to take a look at is

Minkyong: 언제.

Keith: When and how did it come out in this dialogue?

Minkyong: 언제 일본 가?

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Keith: When are you going to Japan? And let’s have another example.

Minkyong: 이거 언제 끝나?

Keith: When is this going to be over? When is this going to finish? Minkyong, you don’t
like recording?

Minkyong: I didn’t say that.

Keith: Well just really quickly, we would like to go over some of the other question
words that you might come across in Korean. So how do we say, what?

Minkyong: 뭐

Keith: Why

Minkyong: 왜

Keith: Who

Minkyong: 누구

Keith: Where

Minkyong: 어디

Keith: And once again, what’s when?

Minkyong: 언제

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Keith: Okay. So let’s take a look at our next word.

Minkyong: 오늘

Keith: Today. How about a sample sentence?

Minkyong: 오늘 무슨 요일이야?

Keith: Today, what day is it or what day is it today. So how did the word 오늘 come out
in this dialogue?

Minkyong: 태현 said to 앨리스, 오늘 화요일이야.

Keith: Today is Tuesday. Well, really quickly, let’s go over some related words to
today. What’s yesterday?

Minkyong: 어제.

Keith: And tomorrow

Minkyong: 내일.

Keith: Hopefully that will be useful for some of our listeners. All right, let’s take a look
at our last word.

Minkyong: 미안.

Keith: Sorry and if you wanted to be a little more polite

Minkyong: 미안해요.

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Keith: Yeah. This one is a little tricky. What do we have as the informal version?

Minkyong: 미안.

Keith: But you can also say

Minkyong: 미안해.

Keith: And when we have that 해 at the end and we want to be a little more polite, you
can just add on

Minkyong: 요.

Keith: So we have

Minkyong: 미안해요.

Keith: So for our listeners who might be thinking this one, you can just add on 요 at the
end of 미안, 미안요 it doesn’t really work that way.

Minkyong: No. It sounds weird 미안요. So we have to say 미안해요.

Keith: Right. Instead of 미안요 you add on 미안해요 All right well, let’s take a look at the
focus for this lesson. All right so Minkyong, what are we taking a look at in this lesson?

LESSON FOCUS

Minkyong: Days of the week.

Keith: And days of the week in Korean are expressed by adding the word 요일 to the
end of the letter that represents each day. Basically what that means is, there is a

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pattern and each day has a name that’s based on Chinese characters that represents
different things in nature. So for some of our listeners that may know some Chinese or
may know some Japanese, this might be a very easy lesson for them because all they
got to know is the days of the week, that first syllable and then just add on

Minkyong: 요일.

Keith: At the end of them and there you go. You got the days of the week. So let’s
take a quick example. What’s Sunday?

Minkyong: 일요일.

Keith: Can we break that down, what’s that first syllable?

Minkyong: 일

Keith: And that represents day or Sun and then we just add on

Minkyong: 요일. 일요일.

Keith: All right and how about Monday?

Minkyong: 월요일.

Keith: And that first syllable is

Minkyong: 월

Keith: And that represents moon but you can just add on what after it to get Monday.

Minkyong: 월요일.

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Keith: Okay how about Tuesday?

Minkyong: 화요일.

Keith: And that first syllable is

Minkyong: 화

Keith: And that means fire. What can we add on after that?

Minkyong: 요일

Keith: And together we have

Minkyong: 화요일

Keith: Tuesday. All right Wednesday?

Minkyong: 수요일.

Keith: That first syllable is

Minkyong: 수

Keith: And that represents water. What do we add on after that?

Minkyong: 요일.

Keith: So we have

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Minkyong: 수요일.

Keith: Wednesday. Next?

Minkyong: 목요일.

Keith: And that’s Thursday and that first syllable is

Minkyong: 목

Keith: And that represents tree and after that

Minkyong: 요일.

Keith: So together we have

Minkyong: 목요일.

Keith: Thursday. After that, what do we have for Friday?

Minkyong: 금요일.

Keith: First syllable is

Minkyong: 금

Keith: That means gold and after that

Minkyong: 요일

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Keith: So together

Minkyong: 금요일.

Keith: Friday. Next is Saturday.

Minkyong: 토요일.

Keith: And that first syllable is

Minkyong: 토

Keith: And that represents earth. After that we add on once again

Minkyong: 요일.

Keith: So together

Minkyong: 토요일.

Keith: Saturday and as you can see, there is a pretty easy pattern to this. All you’ve
got to do is remember the days of the week. So there is seven days of the week and
there is seven syllables that you just have to remember and right after that, you just
add on

Minkyong: 요일.

Keith: To the end and actually remembering the first syllables of these days can be
very helpful because a lot of times in Korean when referring to several days of the
week in one sentence or in one statement, only the first letters are used. So for
example, I go to school on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. How can we say Monday,

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Tuesday, Wednesday?

Minkyong: 월화수.

Keith: And those are just the first syllables of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. How
about Monday, Wednesday, Friday?

Minkyong: 월수금.

Keith: And once again, those are the first syllables. So once you remember 7
syllables, you just have to add on 요일 to get the day and also knowing the first
syllables will be really helpful because a lot of times, several days of the week are
referred to as just the first syllables.

Minkyong: Yeah it’s really easy. You only have to remember first syllable of the days
of the week.

OUTRO

Keith: All right, well that’s going to do it for this lesson. Premium members, use the
review track to perfect your pronunciation.

Minkyong: Available in the premium section of the website.

Keith: The learning center

Minkyong: And through iTunes via the premium feed.

Keith: The review track gives you vocabulary and phrases followed by a short pause
so you can repeat the words aloud.

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Minkyong: The best way to get good fast.

Keith: All right, well everyone, hope you have a wonderful day.

Minkyong: 좋은 하루 되세요.

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