Day 61 of 160

Day 61: A Video to Save Our School

In the schoolyard of a small country school, Seojun (A) and Hayun (B), two fifth-graders, talk about the news that their school may close.

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  1. Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
  2. Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Still learning Hangul? Tick Romanization to see how each line sounds, but read the Korean first.
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  4. Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Korean, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.

Dialogue

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  1. A ํ•˜์œค์•„, ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด? ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ•™๊ต ๋‚ด๋…„์— ์—†์–ด์งˆ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋Œ€.

    Hayuna, deureosseo? Uri hakgyo naenyeone eopseojil sudo itdae.

    Hayun, did you hear? Our school might close next year.

  2. B ์‘, ์—„๋งˆ๋„ ์–ด์ œ ๊ทธ ์–˜๊ธฐ ํ•˜์…จ์–ด. ํ•™์ƒ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—ด ๋ช… ๋ฐ‘์œผ๋กœ ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๋ฉด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•™๊ต๋ž‘ ํ•ฉ์ณ์ง„๋Œ€.

    Eung, eommado eoje geu yaegi hasyeosseo. Haksaeng suga yeol myeong miteuro tteoreojimyeon dareun hakgyorang hapchyeojindae.

    Yeah, my mom was talking about it yesterday. If there are fewer than ten pupils, we'll be merged with another school.

  3. A ์ด๋ฒˆ์— 6ํ•™๋…„ ํ˜• ๋ˆ„๋‚˜๋“ค ์กธ์—…ํ•˜๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ช‡ ๋ช… ๋‚จ์•„?

    Ibeone 6hangnyeon hyeong nunadeul joreopamyeon uri myeot myeong nama?

    When the sixth-graders graduate this year, how many of us will be left?

  4. B ๋”ฑ ์•„ํ™‰ ๋ช…. ๋‰ด์Šค์—์„œ๋„ ์ถœ์‚ฐ์œจ์ด ๋‚ฎ์•„์„œ ์‹œ๊ณจ ํ•™๊ต๋“ค์ด ๊ณ„์† ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‹ซ๋Š”๋Œ€.

    Ttak ahop myeong. Nyuseueseodo chulsanyuri najaseo sigol hakgyodeuri gyesok muneul danneundae.

    Exactly nine. The news says country schools keep closing because so few babies are being born.

  5. A ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์š”์ฆ˜ ์–ด๋ฅธ๋“ค์ด ํ•œ์ˆจ๋งŒ ์‰ฌ์‹œ๋Š”๊ตฌ๋‚˜.

    Geuraeseo yojeum eoreundeuri hansumman swisineunguna.

    So that's why the grown-ups keep sighing these days.

  6. B ๋งž์•„. ์–ด๋ฅธ๋“ค์€ ๋ชจ์—ฌ์„œ ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋งŒ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์•ˆ ํ•ด.

    Maja. Eoreundeureun moyeoseo geokjeonghagiman hago amugeotdo an hae.

    Yeah. The grown-ups just get together and worry, and nobody does anything.

  7. A ๋‚˜๋„ ๊ฑฑ์ •๋ผ. ํ•ฉ์ณ์ง€๋ฉด ๋ฒ„์Šค ํƒ€๊ณ  ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€์•ผ ๋œ๋Œ€.

    Nado geokjeongdwae. Hapchyeojimyeon beoseu tago han siganina gaya doendae.

    I'm worried too. If they merge us, we'll have to ride the bus for a whole hour.

  8. B ๋„ˆ๋„ ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋งŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ญ ํ•ด? ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ฐพ์•„์•ผ์ง€.

    Neodo geokjeonghagiman hamyeon mwo hae? Uriga hal su inneun geol chajayaji.

    What's the point of just worrying? We have to find something we can do.

  9. A ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ญ˜ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ? ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ์ด์ž–์•„.

    Uriga mwol hal su inneunde? Uri chodeunghaksaengijana.

    What can we do? We're only in primary school.

  10. B ๋™์˜์ƒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์ž. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ•™๊ต๋ž‘ ๋งˆ์„ ์ž๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋˜๋ž˜ ์• ๋“ค ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ๋ณด๊ณ  ์ด์‚ฌ ์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์ž–์•„.

    Dongyeongsang mandeulja. Uri hakgyorang maeul jaranghaneun geo. Uri ttorae aedeul inneun gajokdeuri bogo isa ol sudo itjana.

    Let's make a video showing off our school and our village. Families with kids our age might see it and move here.

  11. A ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ๋™์˜์ƒ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‚ฐ๊ณจ๋กœ ์ด์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์™€?

    Nuga dongyeongsang hana bogo sangollo isareul wa?

    Who'd move out to the hills just because of one video?

  12. B ์ง„์งœ ์žˆ์–ด. ์˜† ๋งˆ์„ ํ•™๊ต๋Š” ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์ „ํ•™ ์˜จ ์• ๊ฐ€ ์„ธ ๋ช…์ด๋‚˜ ๋œ๋Œ€.

    Jinjja isseo. Yeop maeul hakgyoneun Yutyubeu bogo jeonhak on aega se myeongina doendae.

    It really happens. At the school in the next village, three kids transferred after their families saw a YouTube video.

  13. A ์˜ค... ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๋ญ ์ฐ์„ ๊ฑด๋ฐ?

    O... geureom mwo jjigeul geonde?

    Oh... So what are we going to film?

  14. B ์šด๋™์žฅ์—์„œ ๋‹ค ๊ฐ™์ด ์ถ•๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ, ํ…ƒ๋ฐญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ์ž ์บ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ. ์•„, ๊ธ‰์‹๋„ ์ฐ์ž. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ•™๊ต ๊ธ‰์‹ ์ง„์งœ ๋ง›์žˆ์ž–์•„.

    Undongjangeseo da gachi chukguhaneun geo, teotbateseo gamja kaeneun geo. A, geupsikdo jjikja. Uri hakgyo geupsik jinjja masitjana.

    All of us playing football in the schoolyard, digging potatoes in the garden. Oh, and let's film lunch. Our school lunches are really good.

  15. A ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ•™๊ต๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ์ด ์ ์–ด์„œ ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜์ด ํ•œ ๋ช… ํ•œ ๋ช… ๋‹ค ์ฑ™๊ฒจ ์ฃผ์‹œ์ž–์•„. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ง„์งœ ์žฅ์ ์ด์•ผ.

    Geurigo uri hakgyoneun haksaengi jeogeoseo seonsaengnimi han myeong han myeong da chaenggyeo jusijana. Geugeotdo jinjja jangjeomiya.

    And since there are so few of us, the teachers look after every single one. That's a real plus too.

  16. B ์ด์žฅ ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ๋„ ๋„ฃ์ž. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋งˆ์„์—์„œ ์ œ์ผ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์‚ฌ์…จ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.

    Ijang harabeoji inteobyudo neocha. Uri maeureseo jeil orae sasyeosseunikka.

    Let's put in an interview with the old village head too. He's lived here longer than anyone.

  17. A ์ข‹์•„. ์ดฌ์˜์€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ํ• ๊ฒŒ. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์…”. '์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์ผ์€ ๋์„ ๋ณด๊ฑฐ๋ผ.'

    Joa. Chwaryeongeun naega halge. Uri halmeoniga neul geureosyeo. 'Sijakan ireun kkeuteul bogeora.'

    Okay. I'll do the filming. My grandma always says, 'Whatever you start, see it through.'

  18. B ๊ทธ๋ž˜. ๋Œ€๋ณธ์€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์“ธ๊ฒŒ. ๋Œ€์‹  ๋„ˆ ์ €๋ฒˆ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ฐ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์›ƒ๊ธฐ๋งŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค?

    Geurae. Daeboneun naega sseulge. Daesin neo jeobeoncheoreom jjikdaga utgiman hamyeon an doenda?

    Okay. I'll write the script. But no laughing the whole time while you film, like last time, okay?

  19. A ์•Œ์•˜์–ด, ์ง„์ง€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฐ์„๊ฒŒ. ํ† ์š”์ผ์— ์šด๋™์žฅ์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ•™๊ต๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€ํ‚ค์ž.

    Arasseo, jinjihage jjigeulge. Toyoire undongjangeseo manna. Uri hakgyoneun uriga jikija.

    Okay, I'll be serious. Meet you in the schoolyard on Saturday. Let's save our school ourselves.

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