Level 8 · Unit 10

A poem on the platform

A poem on the screen door, on a subway platform before the last train

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What you’ll learn

V-는 까닭이다 · V/A-(으)ㄴ 까닭이다 · N인 까닭이다 · N의 까닭 · (말) V/A-기 때문이다Giving the reason at the end: -는 까닭이다
V-(으)ㄹ 듯하다 · V/A-(으)ㄴ/는 듯하다 · (말) V/A-(으)ㄹ 것 같다A careful guess in writing: -(으)ㄹ 듯하다
V/A-(으)ㄴ 반면(에) · V-는 반면(에) · N인 반면(에)Comparing two words of a pair: -(으)ㄴ/는 반면에

보리, 안전문 공사 끝났나 봐. 마무리 공사 한다고 막아 놨던 데에 시가 붙어 있어.

Bori, looks like the screen-door work is finished. There's a poem up where they had it blocked off for the finishing work.
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Bori

응. 준공 안내문 옆에. 별 헤는 밤.

Yeah. Next to the completion notice. 'A Night Counting Stars'.
‘이 많은 별빛이 나린 언덕우에’… 어, 여기 오타 있다. ‘나린’이 아니라 ‘내린’이잖아. ‘우에’도 ‘위에’고. 역무실에 말해야 하나?

'On the hill where so much starlight came down'… oh, there's a typo here. It should be 내린, not 나린. And 우에 should be 위에. Should I tell the station office?

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SceneA short scene with Sori, Hoya and the people around them, every line with its English
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Grammar3 patterns: why you need it now, the rule, a table and examples
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Sori’s tipsExceptions, reasons and easily confused pairs
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Hoya’s notebookLife in Korea, in Hoya’s own words
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Words42 words, which go into your spaced review
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PracticeFill the gap, build the sentence, pick the reply — and fix Hoya’s mistakes
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Review roomQuestions from this unit and earlier ones, each marked with where it comes from
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Read & writeA short reading with questions, and a writing task with a model answer
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Cheat sheetThe whole unit on one printable card