Test Your Korean – Level 1 Dialog in 100% Korean Toggle Panel
Test Your Korean – Level 1 Dialog in 100% Korean
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Check how much you can understand from studying with Level 1 lessons of TalkToMeInKorean! To make the conversation more realistic, we have added some new words and expressions that did not get covered in Level 1 yet, but don’t worry; you have the PDF to use for reference!
First listen to the dialog alone without looking at the Korean transcript or translation, and then compare your understanding with the actual translation.
Let us know how much you understood!
Discussion( leave a comment )
Two things I couldn’t grasp at first were “pizza place,” I keep thinking “jip” as house/home. The syntax for “until 7′oclock” was kind of complicated too. My questions are: why does Minsu-ssi ask “Nu-gu yo?” and not “Nu-gu e-yo” and why do they need to specify cups of cola but not bottles of beer? Do we have to state the container the drinks come in?
I think “Nu gu yo” is like “who?” and “Nu gu e-yo” is more like “Who IS it?” that’s the difference, in the first is just asking who and the second is using the verb “to be”.
And about your second question, you can rather specify bottles or not for beer, because in this case, in Korea they usually don’t order one bottle of soda for each person, either they just ask for one or two bottles and they share it with glasses, so I think that’s the reason why they specified cups of cola and not bottles of beer, because beer is always sold in bottles.
Level 1 is so easy,I’m so happy that I am understand it.^^하하하 기분 좋다 .
Wow! Pretty excited how much understood…and after reading it in Korean I knew basically everything or figured it out in context. Not bad teaching Talk to Me In Korean team!!! I think there is one mistake in your PDF. It says “how” in the English translation where it should say “who”.
omg im so glad i understood some of it!!thank you so much for this!! this story is about a girl’s birthday n the other girl friend got her a bday present n the other guy didnt noe about it but they invited her to eat pizza for her birthday(: n they wanted beer n pizza to eat in the restaurant.
Fantastic for beginners, but way too easy for me. :( Please consider offering a much more advanced lesson track. I occasionally still get tripped up when watching dramas.
Oh, I didn’t get about 50% of the dialogue. There were loads of verbs and words I didn’t know… Should I improve my vocabulary before going on level 2?
wohooo i know all of the conversation~
*because i’m foreigner who live in korea~
1. I understood about 70% of the conversation first time listening to it. My brain scatters all over the place when Korean native speakers talk at normal speed :(
2. Surprisingly when I read through the text dialogue I was able to understand most of it and understand the context….I used an online translator for the words that I didn’t know, (before I realized the vocab was at the bottom haha!)…also I noticed that my speed of reading Hangul has picked up! yay!
3. I went back to listen to the dialogue and was well pleased that I understood all of it despite of how fast they speak! yay!
Thank you TTMIK you guys rock!
~P.S- I might be crazy but in the dialogue text it says that 현주 said “괜찮아요. 감사합니다.” but I didn’t hear that at all in the actual dialogue!
감사합니다!!
I didn’t hear her say that either….
I was actually really encouraged when I listened to the dialog for the first time. I could understand about 95% of what was being said. I’ve been studying Korean for almost seven years but I’ve always felt like I sucked at it; even though I now live in Busan. My friend in Seoul told me about Talk To Me In Korean and now after having visited this sight I feel like my Korean just be able to pull through. Thank you guys so much for putting this together.
100%! I’m really happy for that ^^
translations can not be in Spanish?
My goodness! I feel so touched realizing that I understand the whole conversation pretty well!! 정말 행복해요 지금. ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Thank you so much for the wonderful lessons! 많이 감사합니다^^
I think my main problem was that I know the words it just took me a second to translate what was being said. Maybe if they weren’t talking so fast I would have gotten it better but I can see an improvement in my Korean. :D
omg i loved it i got half of it, thanks soo much!!
At first, I was confused because I’m only familiar to some words but now I’m learning the conversation slowly but surely :D
Yay! I understood most of it^^ I was just confused in the beer part you know.. Well it’s because I didn’t know the korean word for beer since I thought it was soju..haha XD!!
i didnt listen all the lessons because i learnt korean before but im happy that i understood all the dialog is apropriate for the level its easy and great !
감사합니다
i think how abouut to make it to word file
it is good for me to practice my listening ability.
i will keep to visit this webside.
I think this dialog will scare a lot of newcomers off. I found this dialog a week into my study and I was pumped, I’d be able to test out my Korean on a real life situation! I listened to the dialog and I didn’t understand one word of it, even though I knew a lot of the words in it, my ears I guess hadn’t adjusted yet. So I was very discouraged and didn’t come back to talktomeinkorean for quite some time. I came back a couple months later to this dialog and other than a couple vocab words that I didn’t know, it all came so easy. I went ahead and didn’t listen to any podcasts in lesson two and understood almost all of that as well.
For the newcomers and are listening to this and have no idea why you can’t grasp anything, don’t be discouraged, you need A LOT of input before you start to notice words and phrases you already know in context.
Don’t give up hope! FIGHTING!
I understand some of it.. :)
this is where i don’t understand 언제까지 시간 있어요，저는 일곱 시까지 시간 있어요，불고기
I haven’t even finished 1/4 of the level 1 but I can already understand everything in this~~
I guess, watching K-shows helped me a lot~
I really want to learn more about the language, so I’m gonna continue where I left off~~
Fighting~!!!
(I was actually just testing myself if I can understand the level 1 Korean~!!! I surprised myself too much~~!!! I’m so happy right now~~!! Waaaa~~~)
Yay yay! I’m so happy that I actually understood alot of it! Maybe about.. hmmm 60% of it. I have not been studying Korean for long, maybe about 3 months so i wasn’t excpecting to get it as quickly. I understiod mostly the first part, then my mind shattered during the pizza part. Haha, if they were speaking a little slower, I might just have understood it a little more. ^^
why i can’t download the pdf file?
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