Korean Langblr

This game (like a lot of Korean games) is played with the same beat as the Frying Pan game (lap clap right thumb left thumb)

*see gif below*

Intro:

아싸 홍삼 에브리바디 홍삼! 🎵

아 lap 싸 clap 홍 right 삼 left 에브리 lap 바디 clap 홍 right 삼 left

아싸 | assa (general cheer)

홍삼 | red ginseng

에브리바디 | Korean pronunciation of everybody

Rules:

첫 번째로 시작한 사람은 “아싸~ 너! 너!” 라고 외치며 두 사람을 지목합니다

The first person to start yells, "Assa~ you! You!" and picks two people

지목을 당한 두 사람은 “아싸~ 너!”라고 외치며 각자 한 명씩 다른 사람을 선택합니다. 속도가 빠를수록 게임의 난이도는 높아지니 스피드를 점점 UP 시켜주세요~!

Those two chosen people yell, "Assa~ you!" and each choose a person. The faster the speed, the higher the level of difficulty, so slowly speed up how fast you go!

서로 다른 사람을 지목하다 두 사람이 한 사람을 동시에 지목했다면 지목 당한 사람이 “아싸~ 홍삼~!” 이라고 말하며 자신만의 제스처를 보여줍니다. 그럼 다른 사람들도 모두 함께 “에브리바디~ 홍삼~!” 이라고 외치며 제스처를 따라 해야 합니다.

If the two people both pick the same person, the chosen person has to say, "Assa hongsam!" while doing a gesture of their choosing. And everyone else has to follow by responding with "everybody hongsam!"

그리고 지목을 받은 사람이 다시 처음으로 돌아가 “아싸~ 너! 너!” 라고 외치며 두 명을 지목합니다. 

And the person who was chosen has to start over from the beginning with, "Assa~ you! You!" and pick two people.

*you lose by not responding/choosing someone after being pointed at. ( basically if you miss your turn, you lose)*

Loser usually has to drink or receive some type of punishment

Vocab:

외치다 | to yell/call out

지목하다 | to pick

선택하다 | to choose

따르다 | to follow

속도 | speed

I work at a high school and last week my students all had their government mandatory PE test. About half the school knows I know Korea, some assume I know some Korean, but a large chunk think I know like 5 words (which tbh is what I would prefer.)

Most of the kids who *know* I know Korean will usually still speak to me in English to practice/because they think it's fun. This one kid in particular picks up a ton of phrases from movies and tv and he uses them pretty naturally all the time...but immediately after will ask what it actually means (they're usually insults about other students or chill phrases like "no big d") ((the kid he insults is also his best friend and that friend is pretty much fluent in English))

Anyways, this one class is just over halfway done and 3 students come over to me with Boy Who Tries in front and Boy Who is Fluent and Different Boy behind him. BWT points to something behind me and said what I thought was "mouse." I mildly panic and let out a squeaky "paRdON?!" He then repeats and points again "mouse." I turn and there is nothing behind me.

I look to BWF behind him for help and his just says "He means zip." And I am still full confusion. "Zip! Zip!"

I turn again and BWT is directly pointing to the iced Americano I had behind me and he says the same thing again but this time I hear what he ACTUALLY said which was "one mouth."

Now this kid is 18 and flirty af so I come back yet again but stronger with a "PARDON?!" And then I realize BWF probably said "sip" not "zip" and BWT usually translates things literally and in Korean "one bite/sip" is "한입" which literally translates to "one mouth."

The following reviews all come from 배달요기요 for a Korean restaurant that specializes in "lunch box" type meals.

맛도 괜찮고 양도 괜찮았어.. 배달만 쫌 더 빠르면 좋겠어요.

The flavor and amount were okay... I wish the delivery would come a bit faster.

김치찌개가 다른집보다 새콤달콤합니다.

고기는 생각보다 많지는 않아요.

제육은 불맛나고 괜찮습니다

The kimchi jiggae is more sweet and sour than other places

As for the meat, there wasn't as much as I thought

The spicy(?*) flavor on the stir fried pork was okay.

*idk how to translate 불맛. It literally means fire flavor... so I'm just gonna continue to call this spicy*

너무 맛있었는데 스팸 한 조각밖에 안 왔어요.. ㅜㅜ

It was so good... but I only got one piece of spam.. 😭

(She had ordered 2 slices of spam)

Vocab:

맛 - flavor

양 - amount (not to be confused with 양고기 which is lamb)

배달 - delivery

다른 - different/another (conjugated)

새콤달콤한 - sweet and sour (conjugated)

생각 - think/thoughts

괜찮다 - to be okay (not conjugated)

조각 - slice/piece

맛있다 - to be delicious (not conjugated)

Grammar:

~만 - just/only (in this case, "just the delivery")

~(으)면 좋겠다 - it would be nice if/ I would like it if/ I wish that

~보다 - more than (in comparisons)

~밖에 - only (in terms of amount. Usually a sad/negative thing.) (~밖에 안 왔어 means "only [thing attached to 밖에] came)

Culture Points:

Lots of restaurants are called "(insert type of food here) 집," which literally means "(insert type of food here) house."

동안

Translation: baby face (someone who looks younger than they are)

Part of speech: noun

노안

Translation: someone who looks older than they are

My life is slowly becoming less crazy (in terms of how overworked I am) so I'm hoping to be able to post more soon~ I have a few ideas of things I wanna work on but open to suggestions.

Also just found out this week that I work closely with a close family member of a kpop star that is seen as low key a sex symbol and nothing unattractifies a person than talking to one of the people that changed their diapers and shows you baby pictures. So thats my life now.

I will still probably answer any DMs or asks.

I'm going to go through the average conversation I have at a cafe here in Korea. Refer to Cafe Drink Vocabulary to say more specific drinks~

BARISTA: 어서오세요/안녕하세요 | Welcome/Hello

CUSTOMER: 네 안녕하세요 | Hello

BARISTA: 주문하시겠어요? | Are you ready to order?

CUSTOMER: ___ 한잔 주세요 | I'll have a ___.

커피 | coffee

아메리카노 | americano

카페라떼 | cafe latte

두잔 | 2 cups/glasses

세잔 | 3 cups

네잔 | 4 cups (keep going like that with Native Korean numbers. After 4, you do not shorten the number)

BARISTA: 어떤 사이즈로 드릴까요? | What size?

CUSTOMER: ___ 주세요. | A ___, please.

스몰 | small

미디엄 | medium

레귤러 | regular

라지 | large

BARISTA: 더 필요하신거 있어요? | Do you need anything else?

CUSTOMER:

아니요. 그거면 되요. | No that's all.

네. 초코케이크도 하나 주세요. | Yes. Please give me a slice of cake as well.

네. 아이스바닐라라떼 한잔 하고 딸기 마카롱 두개 주세요 | Yes. Please give me an iced vanilla latte and 2 strawberry macarons.

BARISTA: 여기서 드실거예요? | Are you eating here?

CUSTOMER:

네 여기서 마실거예요. | Yes, I'll drink it here.

아니요. 가져갈거예요. | No I'm taking it out.

아니요. 포장해주세요. | No, please wrap it up (to-go, usually for food or food/drink).

아니요. 테이크아웃이에요. | No, it's take-out.

BARISTA: 오천 사백원입니다. | It's 5,400 won. (Use Sino Korean numbers with money)

CUSTOMER: 카드 받으세요? | Do you take card?

BARISTA:

네 받습니다 | yes

죄송합니다 현금만 받습니다 | Sorry we only take cash

BARISTA: 영수증 드릴까요? | Would you like the receipt?

CUSTOMER:

네 영수증 주세요 | yes please give me the receipt

아니요 괜찮아요 | no I'm okay

BARISTA: 감사합니다. 잠시만 기다려주세요. | Thank you. Please wait a moment.

CUSTOMER: 감사합니다 | thank you.

Practice:

Try to place an order for one of the pictures below

1) Sangria Ade, 2) Iced americano and a scone, 3) Tiramisu cake (I think) and a latte, or 4) Affogato

Cafes usually break their menu down by sections:

1) 커피/에스프레소 Coffee/Espresso

아메리카노 | americano

에스프레소 | espresso

카페라떼 | cafe latte

카푸치노 | cappucino

카라멜마끼아또 | caramel macchiato

바닐라라떼 | vanilla latte

카페모카 | caffe mocha

화이트모카 | white mocha

2) 라떼 | Lattes

These are ones that (usually) don't have coffee in them. Always better to ask.

군고구마라떼 | sweet potato latte (tan/slightly green color)

자색고구마라떼 | purple sweet potato latte

그린티/녹차라떼 | green tea latte

초코라떼 | hot chocolate

블루베리라떼 | blueberry latte

3) 아이스/에이드 | Iced/Ade

This category is usually iced teas, specialty iced drinks, and "ades." The lemonades and other drinks are usually more of the non-American style where they're fizzy instead of made with water, sugar, and juice of the fruit.

레몬에이드 | lemonade

오렌지에이드 | orange

자몽에이드 | grapefruit

딸기에이드 | strawberry

청포도에이드 | green grape

블루베리에이드 | blueberry

아이스티 복숭아 | iced peach tea

아이스티 레몬 | iced lemon tea

4) 쥬스/스무디 | Juice/Smoothie

These are the most common flavors. There's often a combination of them below. And if theres more than one flavor, they're often like this 딸기바나나 요거트 스무디.

생과일 | fresh fruit (생 before a fruit name means its fresh)

망고 | mango

딸기 | strawberry

바나나 | banana

키위 | kiwi

파인애플 | pineapple

블루베리 | blueberry

수박 | watermelon

요거트 | yogurt

5) 차 | Tea

녹차 | green tea

홍차 | black tea

유자차 | citron tea

자몽차 | grapefruit tea

장미차 | rose tea

캐모마일 | chamomile

페퍼민트 | peppermint

쟈스민 | jasmine

로즈마리 | rosemary

(꿀)레몬차 | (honey) lemon tea

오미자차 | five (flavor/fruit?) tea

인삼차 | ginseng tea

국화차 | chrysanthemum tea

개구리 - frog

개구쟁이- brat

개발 - development

개암 - hazelnut

개인 - private/individual

개인적으로 - personally

개 - dog

개미 - ant

개념 - concept

Nouns

가방 - bag

가위 - scissors

가지 - eggplant

가오리 - stingray

가리비 - scallop

가재 - crawfish

가구 - furniture

가게 - store

가격 - price

가사 - lyrics

가을 - fall/autumn

가수 - singer

가족 - family

가죽 - leather

가난 - poverty

Verbs

가다 - to go

가깝다 - to be close (in distance)

가져오다 - to bring

가져가다 - to take

가렵다 - to be itchy

가르치다 - to teach

가능하다 - to be possible

가볍다 - to be light

가입하다 - to join

Trans: The toilet is clogged! Please put tissue in the bin!

Vocabulary

변기 | toilet

막히다 | to be clogged/stopped up

휴지 | tissue/toilet paper

(휴지)통 | trash can/bin/container (garbage can/bin is 쓰레기통)

words/phrases you may come across in dramas or webtoons that are relationship-related (both romantic and platonic) that you may not be familiar with; mostly slang

썸 | someone you're "talking to" but not actually dating

모태솔로 | also seen as 모쏠, it's someone who has never dated anyone; forever alone

그린라이트 | green light; a sign someone is into you

케미 | chemistry

짝사랑 | a crush

금사빠 | someone who falls in love easily

금자감 | someone who is overly confident for no reason

얼빠 | someone who easily falls for/only dates people with good looks

된장[남/녀] | someone who lives way above their means in order to impress people/keep up with the Joneses

음란마귀 | someone with a dirty mind (makes dirty jokes)

변태 | a pervert

인싸 | social butterfly; someone who gets along well with everyone, very extroverted, improves the mood of everyone around them (insider)

아싸 | the opposite of 인싸; wallflower, couch potato, keeps to themselves, super quiet, has more of a negative meaning, someone who brings down the mood (outsider)

바람둥이 / 선수 | a player (선수 also literally means athlete, but it's used as a player who dates around as well)

사기꾼 | a cheater/scammer/fraud

훈[남/녀] | someone who is good looking with a kind personality

뇌섹[남/녀] | smart and sexy (more commonly guy with the 남, but you could say girl 녀)

공주병 / 왕자병 | princess/prince disease; someone who needs a lot of attention/acts like a princess/prince; spoiled brat (see: Regina George or every rich kid antagonist(or tbh rich male lead) in every drama ever)

알콩달콩 | super cute and sweet/lovey dovey

권태기 | ennui/the seven year itch; when a relationship becomes boring or drifts apart

삼각관계 | love triangle

노답 | (someone) who doesn't respond/when there's no real answer for a problem

반사 | the equivalent to "right back at you" or "I know you are but what am I;" usually used when someone insults you.

밀당 (하다) | short for "push and pull," kind of like playing hard to get sort of?

문자 씹다 | to ignore someone's text; ghost. You can also sometimes hear 씹다 by itself to mean the same thing.

So I have another post recently (I'll try to find the link) about when it's used at the END of a sentence.

But most of the time, it's a contraction of 것을. 것 by itself means thing but it's usually a part of another grammar structure to make action and descriptive verbs into nouns. 을 is a particle that marks the (direct) object.

나는 수영하는 것을 좋아해 (I like swimming)

This is a regular, casual sentence with NO contractions.

난 수영하는 걸 좋아해

And this is the same sentence, just WITH contractions

Similarly, you may see 건 instead of 것은 or 게 instead of 것이. They are all the same "것" just serving different grammar purposes, which you will learn/see more as you study.

Hope this helps!