Korean Listening Practice/ Super Fun/ Intermediate Level 1- P1

[@theshowupguy]

This is being much more helpful than I had imagined. Thanks for the effort in making this material in this style.

[@e.d.3837]

I think this is the best listening I heard for daily life understanding! Thanks!

[@nasrphoenix4786]

Thank you so much, I was able to understand 80% of the conversation, I do appreciate you providing Korean/English. I'll definitely rewatch it multiple times. Haha great way to review vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation

[@miriamgonzalez293]

it felt so real hahaha. Thank you so much!

[@elliotg25]

이 비디오 진짜 유용해서 감사합니다! It deserves way more views

[@johnpizanis591]

Excellent! Thank you

[@마함알리2501]

Please make more videos Love your content ❤❤❤❤

[@NhanThien-z7p]

Really great lessons! Thank you very much.

[@jhoaragon8234]

This is the best to learn korean language….more video please about hospital conversation…police conversation and airport convertion…thanks

[@ThitSar-z7j]

감사합니다.

[@rv3yj]

최고야 감사합니다❤

[@NoemeKim]

Thank you!!

[@Wave2-24]

wow

[@thinzarnwe-jk4js]

감사해요🎉

[@Emily-ml9uj]

i love it, thank you so much.

[@soegyinft8017]

좋아합니다

[@cecanellicecanelli2507]

Is the voice really Bae Suzy's(배수지)?

[@마함알리2501]

❤❤❤❤

[@fransmith3255]

Thank you for the videos. I have a question about the honorifics, though. I assume this is a married couple and that they have been married a long time, because they have a son who is studying? The wife is using the 요 form, but the husband is speaking casually? Why? I hadn't heard that in Korean women must speak 요 form to their husbands, but husbands can use informal in return. I thought it was only age and status. This seems a little sexist from a western persons point of view and I've not seen this so strictly elsewhere in other Korean dialogues. Why does the woman use only 요 form and the man use only informal form, particularly when they've been married so long? Is this usual? Am I misunderstanding something? Thanks in advance.

[@fransmith3255]

@@-oy1ex Thank you so much for your answer! 😃 So it's not really usual? I didn't think it would be. I don't see conversations between married people, so I wasn't sure. It's just that the dialogue seemed so natural other than this one point, so it puzzled me. So they probably just wanted to show examples of the half speech and the 'yo' form and the wife is usually younger? I'm sure they didn't mean it to be sexist. It just comes across that way to a western person. Thanks again for your thoughtful reply. 🙂

[@fransmith3255]

@@-oy1ex Thank you so much! Of course I read your whole reply. And your English is great! I wish my Korean could be as good as your English!! 🤭 Everything you say makes complete sense. Only a couple decades ago, English was similar with Mr and Mrs. Young people had to use them for everyone who was grown up or much older than themselves. These days people like to be informal, both older and younger people, so Mr and Mrs is disappearing. Only very old people - people in their 80s perhaps still like it. For most people, they dislike it because it makes them feel old. 🤣 I believe that Mr and Mrs is still very much used in America, but in most other English speaking countries it's disappearing. Thank you!! 🙂

[@fransmith3255]

@@-oy1ex You don't talk too much (for me. anyway). In fact, perhaps I do sometimes 🤣. Every culture has positive things and negative things. I love a lot of the polite parts of Korean culture, that I sometimes find missing from my own culture, like common politenesses. But everything has a 'ying' and 'yang', doesn't it? A positive and a negative. Politeness helps to ensure that people are treated respectfully and well, and I wonder whether this is why Korea has a lot less crime than our western countries, a lot less crime than most other countries. Crimes are often committed when people feel that other people and society does not treat them well. Treating people badly has a 'domino effect' - people who are treated badly go on to treat other people badly. I feel that Korea does this much better than my country. On the other hand, I suspect that this also restricts people's freedom to do what they want and be who they want, and my country does that a little better. On the other hand, in my country we have less social restrictions, but more crime. Having lived in Korea for almost 5 years now, I think there are some things that Australia does better, and some things that Korea does better. If I could create a new country to have any culture I like (in my imagination) I would make a mix of cultures with the best parts of both Australia and Korea. ☺

[@fransmith3255]

@@-oy1ex Thank you for your explanations. I really appreciate them. I really like chatting about Korea. It's been great chatting to you. 😀