Level 8 · Unit 9

From speech to page

Old words on the page, in a welfare centre's oral-history room

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What you’ll learn

V-곤 했다 · V-곤 하였다 · V-곤 하셨다 · (구술) V-곤 했지 → (글) V-곤 했다What people used to do: -곤 했다 in an oral history
V-던 N · V-았/었던 N · A-던 N · N이던 N (기억 속의 것)Places and things in memory: -던 and -았/었던
N은/는 … -다고 한다 · -다고 회고한다 · -다고 설명했다 · N을/를 N(이)라고 한다 · (구술) -지 / -어 / -거든 → (글) -다Reporting the narrator: -다고 한다, -다고 회고한다

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Soonja

호야, 아직 그 녹취야? 구술 기록실이 너무 조용해서 내가 다 졸리네.

Hoya, still on that recording? The oral-history room is so quiet I'm getting sleepy myself.
거의 다 받아썼어요, 할머니. 그런데 박봉례 어르신 말씨가 재미있어서 자꾸 멈추게 돼요. 이 대목 좀 보세요. 우물 자리에 펌프가 생긴 뒤로는 다들 마중물을 한 바가지씩 남겨 두고 갔다고 하세요.

I've taken almost all of it down, Grandma. But Mrs Park's way of speaking is so interesting that I keep stopping. Look at this passage. She says that after a pump went in where the well had been, everyone left a dipperful of 마중물 behind.
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Soonja

마중물. 그게 왜?

마중물. What about it?

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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