Let's Speak Korean 1(Ep.17) I Don't worry - 걱정하지 마세요!

안녕하세요, hello everyone and welcome to Let's Speak Korean. I'm your host Lisa Kelley. And we can't start the show without these wonderful people beside me. We have our guide in mastering the Korean language, Stephen Revere. I don't know about mastering. I'll do my best to teach you. I don't know if I'm a master yet. I'm working at it. But anyway, we're going to teach you some expressions today. One of which is don't do something. We've taught how to tell somebody to do something. Now we're going to use the negative, don't do something. And we're going to work in there one that you can use on the Korean subway sometimes, don't push me. Okay? I like that one. Okay, next we'll introduce our students. We have Miriam and Jason in the studio again. Hello. Hello Lisa, hello Stephen. 여러분, 안녕하세요. 저는 Miriam입니다. 안녕하세요, 저는 Jason입니다. It's great to be back here again, guys. I hope you can teach me some more. Lisa, you're looking nice today. Oh, well, thanks. Nice outfit. I think. What's wrong with you today? Nothing's wrong with me today. This is very unusual behavior from you. I read how to win friends and influence people and they told me that you're supposed to compliment people more. Either that or you're trying to blow me off. something wrong, didn't you? Or you need something. No, I did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong. I just, you know, just wanted to give you some more compliments. But what about me? Don't I look nice today? I mean, like, she's not the only woman here. You've got to throw on compliments everywhere, huh? Boy, my mistake, my mistake. Yes, you look nice too, Miriam. Aw, thank you, Stephen. You look nice too, by the way. All right, well Stephen, enough of this. There's something. You're cooking up something. Anyways, let's go and find out what we're going to be learning today in Let's Do It. All right, we discovered two new expressions today. And the first one was, how are you feeling today? What's your condition today? You know, how are you? And that, we say, 오늘은, 오늘 is today, 오늘은 좀 어때요? And the response was, 괜찮아요. You'll hear this expression so often in Korea. You should get this one down. 괜찮아요. Here it means, I'm okay. But 괜찮아 usually means, oh, it's okay, that's okay, okay, in general. And 걱정하지 마세요, too, right? Don't worry. In the beginning, the person says, 오늘은. Now, here, this can be a problem. The pronunciation's rather tough. It's not 오늘은. You cannot do 어. It has to be 오. 오늘은. And then, 늘 is a little difficult to pronounce, too, because there's no 으 in English. 오늘은 좀 어때요? Now, 어때요 is, how is something? Or, how are they? But you have to look at the circumstances to understand. I'm sure some of you are wondering, how is what? Where is the subject here? What are we talking about? But, in the situation, in the context, Koreans very often just get rid of the subject, and they can understand what they're talking about. So, because we kind of know that Lisa hasn't been feeling well lately. Yes, exactly. So, we know that we're talking about her health. And I say, 오늘은 좀 어때요? Right. For example, also, if you were in a restaurant and we were trying out some food, you know, so, you come here every day on a daily basis. So the restaurant owner can ask you, 오늘은 좀 어때요? How's the food today? So, depending on the situation, you can take it out of the context. Good. And, could you explain the 좀 for our students as well? 좀 is like a... All-purpose word, isn't it? Yes, it is. I like it. I love it. It's used everywhere. It's a filler. Think of it as a filler. 좀 can also mean just a little of something. 조금만 주세요, 좀. But it can also be, like I said, a filler. You can put it in anywhere. Or a please, right? Quite often it will mean please. 좀 해주세요 means please kind of do this. They'll use it as a please. Generally, the situation Lisa said, as a please, or as she was saying, a little bit. Right. As we develop our Korean, we'll find other situations to use it in and you'll get to understand where you can use this. And the other one... The next sentence was... Darn, on the script, now I have to pretend I have a cold. And why don't we have the students ask. Ladies, ask... Excuse me. Miriam, how was Lisa? I wish they wouldn't do this to me. 오늘은 좀 어때요? 좀 괜찮아요. 감사합니다. Jason? 오늘은 좀 어때요? 괜찮아요. Then we move on to the don't do this expression, right? And you know, because Lisa doesn't want them to worry, she says 걱정하지 마세요. 걱정하지 마세요. 걱정 means worry. 걱정하지 마세요. 마 means not to. 하세요 would be to do it, or be worried. 하지 마세요 would mean don't be worried, don't be concerned. 걱정하지 마세요. 한 번씩 해보세요. 걱정하지 마세요. We want to work in one more verb there for you. You got 하지 마세요, don't do something, right? And then you put 걱정 in front of it. We also had 시작 once before, didn't we? That means to start. 시작하지 마세요 means don't start. And here's one for you folks who like to ride the subway, but occasionally there's somebody pushing or shoving you. You say 밀지 마세요. 밀지 마세요. Let's try that. 밀지 마세요. Don't push. We need that. Yeah, we definitely do. Let's try some other verbs with this. How about crying? Do you know the verb for cry? 울다. 울지 마세요. Since we have Stephen here and he's such a joker, we can always say don't kid around or don't fool around. You can say it to kids as well. The verb for that is 장난치다. 장난. 장난치지 마세요. You can also say 장난하지 마세요 as well. I keep getting that one. 장난치지 마세요. Yes, when you see little kids running around screaming and you want to tell them to quiet down, 장난치지 마세요. 장난치지 마세요, Stephen. Let's take a look at what we've learned today through our Wrap It Up Corner. Wrap It Up with Lisa and Stephen 제발 울지 마세요. 눈에 고춧가루가 들어갔어요. Okay, don't cry too much now. Yeah, this can happen with Korean food because it's so spicy sometimes. The spiciest of which I always tend to find is 낙지볶음. Have you guys had 낙지볶음 before? You love that stuff? The spicier the better as far as I'm concerned. I put Tabasco in everything. That's too much for me. 낙지, by the way, is the squid. And 볶음 means fried. But in Korea, 낙지볶음 also always happens to have a lot of 고춧가루 in it. We heard it in the Flash animation. 고춧가루 is the red pepper powder. But this is really hard to pronounce for a lot of us foreigners because of the blending of the sounds. There's a ㅅ 받침 there and it's not pronounced. So when you look at it, it looks pretty hard to pronounce. 고춧가루. Alright, well keeping that in mind, everybody go and get some 낙지볶음 today. And that'll end our show for today. Thank you for joining us and please come back next time. This was Let's Speak Korean. Bye-bye. Thanks everybody. Bye everyone.