Let's Speak Korean 1(Ep.27) Thank you for helping me - 도와줘서 고마워

안녕하세요. Welcome to Let's Speak Korean. I'm your host, Lisa Kelley. And you're in the right place. If you love Korea, its people, and its culture, here's your chance to master the language. Next to me is your guide, our handybook man, Mr. Handybook. This is Steve Revere. Hello, Steve. 안녕하세요. Thank you for being with us once again. We look forward to teaching you a few more Korean expressions, how to use them, how to make your own. And we've got two people who are going to help us show you them. 안녕하세요. 저는 미렴입니다. And today, I'd like to learn how to express my gratitude to our Korean people because they're so nice. Yes, they are. They are. Hello, Jason. 안녕하세요. 저는 제이슨입니다. And yes, I just want to say how grateful I am to be on this show before we start. Give us a few minutes, and you will be able to express your gratitude and say thank you to... I'm sure being foreigners in Korea, you have a lot of people to thank. There's the landlord lady, and the 아줌마 down the street, and all these people who help you out. So, let's get down to it. Thank you. All right, let's go to Let's Do It. Let's Do It 같이 들자 도와줘서 고마워 We heard 도와줘서 감사합니다. 고마워요. 도와줘서 고마워요, which means thanks for helping me. And we have the 주다, 주다 in there. And that's a tricky one, isn't it? I mean, especially with the spelling. Look at all... One thing you need to remember is that when you're appreciative of something, usually it's like people have always given you some help, given you something. So Koreans always work give into this appreciation in their sentences quite often. So here, we would say thanks for the help, right? Thanks for the help. But here, they're going to say thank you for giving me help. So 도와주다 is to give. So thanks for giving me help. So I'm appreciative, it would be kind of the exact translation, but really it's thanks for the help. 도와주어서 고마워. Okay, well let's think of another verb. Although you have helped us, but you're also teaching us, right? So 가르쳐주다, 가르쳐주다 would be another verb that we can work into that. How would we do it? What do you think? Can you do this, Miriam? I'm going to try. 가르쳐줘서 고마워요. Good, good, good. And what if I made something for you? Miriam's been practicing. Yes, she has. I did. If I made something for you, 만들어주다, 만들어주다, to make something for you. How would you... I can do this. 만들어줘서 고마워요. Oh, very good. Notice we've got all these different levels of how to be polite in here. And Jason just used the high form, 고마워요 is a little bit more polite than 만들어주어서 고마워, 만들어주어서 고마워요. If you want to make it even more polite, you throw in the 시, right? 만들어주셔서 고마워요. 주셔서, 시, plus 어, when you put them together, it becomes 셔, 만들어주셔서 고마워요. And I've got a pretty messy house, and when my cleaning lady comes over, or one of my friends comes over, they actually go ahead and clean it all for me, okay? Not me. They're just like, I can't stand your house. So, clean, the verb for clean is 청소하다, okay? Do you want to work with that one? 청소해줘서 고마워요. Good. Okay, and we're also thanking people all the time for, oh, thanks for calling me, or thanks for returning my call, you know? So, 전화하다. Do you want to tackle that one, Jason? 전화해줘서 고마워요. Great. And, of course, there's always that helping ear, like Stephen's a great friend, and when I want to talk about something, or fight about something, he's always giving me a lending ear, okay? So, thanks for listening, 듣다 would be the verb, can you tackle that one? This is going to be hard, but I started it, so, 들어줘서 고마워요. Okay, yes, that was the high form there, you've got 들어줘서 고마워요, and that is an irregular verb, isn't it? 듣다 changes, as Lisa said, to 들어요, after you conjugate it. 들어줘서 고마워요. Great. And we heard in the let's do it, our main expression was, 같이 들자, 같이 is together, and 들다 means to lift something, okay? So 같이 들자, let's lift it together, okay, was the expression. You want to tackle that? Same spelling, isn't it, you've got there, 들어요 and 들어요 is the same thing. But what about 같이? Why do we say 같이 instead of 같이? There you go, another good question. Why would you say, why don't you say 같이, that symbol there is a T sound, isn't it? 같이, it seems like you would say that, but actually it's 같이. Why? Because it's much easier to pronounce. You might notice that in English, we say, why don't you, when we talk about the T plus the U sound, it comes out, why don't you. It's kind of a CH sound, isn't it? Same thing happens in Korean, 같이, okay? 같이 갑시다, 같이 들어줘서 고마워요. Okay, let's put some of these rules into practice, into a sentence. Steve is going to say, how about this, it's too heavy for me to lift. Ah, that will be an irregular ㄲ verb, something we just went over. That would be 무겁다, okay? 겁 ends in the ㅂ, that's going to disappear, it's going to become an ㅜ, and then it will be pressed up against the ㅓ, becoming 무거워, okay? 무거워서 못들어요, 무거워서 못들어. 같이 들자, let's lift it together. Oh, you want to lift it together, 도와주어서 고마워. You're welcome. Jason, can you help me clean, too? Sure. 같이 청소하자. 아, 같이 청소하자고? Okay, 청소 같이 해주어서 고마워. Okay, let's go on to some pronunciation tips. The first one was 같이, 같이, 같이 ㅂㅂㅂ 하자. Okay, that means together, let's do it together. 같이. Good. As Steve said earlier, don't forget it's not 같이, it's actually harder to say it like that, it's 같이. And the other one, we actually covered 못 last time already, but it's 못들겠어. I can't pick it up. 못들겠어. Very good. I mean, they're perfect students, so there's no more to cover. So, let's go and find out what we learned today and put it all together through our flash animation. Wrap it up with Lisa and Stephen. 도와줘서 정말 고마워. 우린 친구잖아. 나중에 도와줄게. 아니야, 정말 괜찮아. I'm sure the expressions you've learned today are going to be really useful when you're talking with your friends. I mean, you pretty much express your gratitude to someone every day. And I think you guys told me that you had something to say to us? Yeah, we practiced something together. You ready? Let's hear it. Lisa, 그리고 Stephen, 오늘 한국어 공부 도와줘서 정말 고마워요. I guess they caught the 정말 then. Very good. I just have a new one. 정말이에요? 정말이에요. Right. 정말이에요 means really? And then they responded, really. Well, that sounds like a pretty good lesson. Okay, thank you for being with us and please join us next time here at Let's Speak Korean. Bye bye, everyone. Arirangtv.com