Living Abroad

Korean Basic Conversation 3

Chapter 12 ยท Living Abroad: Settling In & Making Friends

๐ŸŒ Living Abroad โ€” ์™ธ๊ตญ ์ƒํ™œ

The last chapter is about the situation many learners are really heading for: living in Korea, or in any country far from home. You will talk about how long you have been somewhere with -(์œผ)ใ„ด ์ง€ โ€ฆ ๋์–ด์š” ("it has been โ€ฆ sinceโ€ฆ"), about homesickness and loneliness, and about making friends through language exchanges. Dialogs have a Hard words note, a short reading text follows, and the chapter ends with a Course Complete recap of all twelve chapters.

eo = ใ…“ (short, open "uh") eu = ใ…ก (unrounded "oo") kk, tt, pp, ss, jj = tense (tight, unaspirated) consonants

โ‘  How Long Have You Been Here? โ€” ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ์˜จ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋์–ด์š”?

A:ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ์˜จ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋์–ด์š”?How long has it been since you came to Korea?
B:์˜จ ์ง€ ์ด ๋…„ ๋์–ด์š”. ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒŒ ๋‚ฏ์„ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”.It's been two years since I came. At first everything felt unfamiliar.
A:ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋Š” ์–ธ์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”?Since when have you studied Korean?
B:๊ณต๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์ง€ ์‚ผ ๋…„์ฏค ๋๋Š”๋ฐ ์•„์ง๋„ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์š”.It's been about three years since I started studying, but it's still hard.
A:์•„๋‹ˆ์—์š”. ๋ฐœ์Œ์ด ์ •๋ง ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์š”.No, your pronunciation is really natural.
Hard words: ์˜จ ์ง€ on ji ยท ๋์–ด์š” dwae-sseo-yo ยท ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒŒ mo-deun ge ยท ๋‚ฏ์„ค์—ˆ์–ด์š” nat-sseo-reo-sseo-yo ยท ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์ง€ si-ja-kan ji ยท ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์š” ja-yeon-seu-reo-wo-yo

โ‘ก Settling In โ€” ์ ์‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”

A:์ด์ œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ƒํ™œ์— ๋งŽ์ด ์ ์‘ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”?Have you got used to life in Korea by now?
B:๋„ค, ๋งŽ์ด ์ต์ˆ™ํ•ด์กŒ์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€๋” ๋ฌธํ™” ์ฐจ์ด ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋†€๋ผ์š”.Yes, I've got quite used to it. But sometimes I'm surprised by cultural differences.
A:์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ฉด ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฑฐ์š”?For example?
B:์ฒ˜์Œ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋‚˜์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ด์„œ ๋‹นํ™ฉํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์ดํ•ดํ•ด์š”.A person I'd just met asked my age, which flustered me. Now I understand.
A:๋งž์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ํ˜ธ์นญ์„ ์ •ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.Right. They're trying to decide how to address each other.
Hard words: ์ ์‘ํ–ˆ์–ด์š” jeo-geung-hae-sseo-yo ยท ์ต์ˆ™ํ•ด์กŒ์–ด์š” ik-ssu-kae-jyeo-sseo-yo ยท ๋ฌธํ™” ์ฐจ์ด mun-hwa cha-i ยท ๋‹นํ™ฉํ–ˆ์–ด์š” dang-hwang-hae-sseo-yo ยท ์„œ๋กœ seo-ro ยท ํ˜ธ์นญ ho-ching

โ‘ข Homesick โ€” ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œ์š”

A:์š”์ฆ˜ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ์•ˆ ์ข‹์•„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์š”. ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?You haven't looked happy these days. Is something wrong?
B:๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œ์š”. ๊ฐ€์กฑ์„ ๋ชป ๋ณธ ์ง€ ์ผ ๋…„์ด ๋๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.I just miss my hometown. You see, it's been a year since I last saw my family.
A:์™ธ๋กœ์šธ ๋•Œ๋Š” ์˜์ƒ ํ†ตํ™”๋ฅผ ์ž์ฃผ ํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.When you feel lonely, try video calls more often.
B:๋„ค, ๋งค์ฃผ ์ผ์š”์ผ๋งˆ๋‹ค ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๊ฐ€๋”์€ ๋งŽ์ด ์™ธ๋กœ์›Œ์š”.Yes, I do it every Sunday. Even so, I'm very lonely sometimes.
A:๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ๊ฒช์–ด์š”. ๊ฐ™์ด ์ €๋… ๋จน์„๋ž˜์š”?Everyone goes through that feeling. Shall we have dinner together?
Hard words: ๊ธฐ๋ถ„ gi-bun ยท ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œ์š” geu-ri-wo-yo ยท ๋ชป ๋ณธ ์ง€ mot bon ji ยท ์™ธ๋กœ์šธ ๋•Œ oe-ro-ul ttae ยท ์˜์ƒ ํ†ตํ™” yeong-sang tong-hwa ยท ๊ฒช์–ด์š” gyeo-kkeo-yo

โ‘ฃ Language Exchange โ€” ์–ธ์–ด ๊ตํ™˜ ๋ชจ์ž„

A:ํ•œ๊ตญ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๊ท€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ ์–ด๋””์„œ ๋งŒ๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?I'd like to make Korean friends. Where could I meet them?
B:์–ธ์–ด ๊ตํ™˜ ๋ชจ์ž„์— ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ์ฃผ๋ง๋งˆ๋‹ค ํ™๋Œ€์—์„œ ์—ด๋ ค์š”.Try going to a language exchange meeting. They're held every weekend in Hongdae.
A:๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์š”?What do you do there?
B:ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ, ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ด์š”. ์„œ๋กœ ๋„์™€์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.One hour in Korean, one hour in English. You help each other.
A:์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”. ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ์ข€ ๋ถ€๋„๋Ÿฌ์šธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.That sounds fun. I think I'd feel a bit shy at first.
B:๋‹ค๋“ค ๋น„์Šทํ•ด์š”. ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด์„œ ๋งํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.Everyone's the same. Summon your courage and try speaking.
Hard words: ์‚ฌ๊ท€๊ณ  sa-gwi-go ยท ์–ธ์–ด ๊ตํ™˜ eo-neo gyo-hwan ยท ๋ชจ์ž„ mo-im ยท ์—ด๋ ค์š” yeol-lyeo-yo ยท ๋ถ€๋„๋Ÿฌ์šธ bu-kkeu-reo-ul ยท ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด์„œ yong-gi-reul nae-seo

โ‘ค The Neighbours โ€” ์ด์›ƒ๊ณผ ์นœํ•ด์ง€๊ธฐ

A:์ด์‚ฌ ์˜จ ์ง€ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ ๋๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด์›ƒ ๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ์•„์ง ์ž˜ ๋ชฐ๋ผ์š”.It's been a month since I moved in, but I still don't know my neighbours well.
B:์ž‘์€ ์„ ๋ฌผ์„ ๋“ค๊ณ  ์ธ์‚ฌํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋•Œ์š”?How about taking a small present and going to say hello?
A:๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”? ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ€๋ฉด ์‹ค๋ก€์ผ ํ…๋ฐ์š”.Would that be all right? Turning up suddenly would probably be rude, though.
B:๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”. ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ๊ณผ์ผ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ณผ์ž๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”.It's fine. Some simple fruit or biscuits will do.
A:์ข‹์€ ์ด์›ƒ์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋ฉด ์™ธ๊ตญ ์ƒํ™œ์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ํŽธํ•ด์งˆ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.If I meet good neighbours, life abroad will become much easier.
Hard words: ์ด์›ƒ i-ut ยท ์นœํ•ด์ง€๊ธฐ chin-hae-ji-gi ยท ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ gap-jja-gi ยท ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ€๋ฉด cha-ja-ga-myeon ยท ์‹ค๋ก€ sil-lye ยท ํŽธํ•ด์งˆ pyeon-hae-jil

โ‘ฅ Two Friends (casual) โ€” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ์ง€ ๋ฒŒ์จ?

A:์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ์ง€ ๋ฒŒ์จ ์ผ ๋…„์ด๋‚˜ ๋์–ด!It's already been a whole year since we met!
B:์ง„์งœ? ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ง„์งœ ๋น ๋ฅด๋‹ค. ์ฒ˜์Œ์— ๋„ˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ํ•˜๋‚˜๋„ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์ž–์•„.Really? Time flies. At first you couldn't speak any Korean, you know.
A:๋„ค ๋•๋ถ„์— ๋งŽ์ด ๋Š˜์—ˆ์–ด. ์ •๋ง ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ.Thanks to you I've improved a lot. Thank you so much.
B:๋‚˜๋„ ๋„ˆ ๋•๋ถ„์— ์˜์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜์—ˆ์–ด. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์„œ๋กœ ๋„์™€์ค€ ๊ฑฐ์ง€.My English has improved thanks to you, too. We helped each other.
A:๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๊ธฐ๋…์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์‚ด๊ฒŒ!Then to celebrate, I'll treat you today!
Hard words: ๋ฒŒ์จ beol-sseo ยท ๋ชปํ–ˆ์ž–์•„ mo-taet-jja-na ยท ๋•๋ถ„์— deok-ppu-ne ยท ๋Š˜์—ˆ์–ด neu-reo-sseo ยท ๊ธฐ๋… gi-nyeom ยท ์‚ด๊ฒŒ sal-ge

๐Ÿ—๏ธ Key Phrases โ€” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„

SituationPoliteCasual
How long have you been here?์˜จ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋์–ด์š”?์˜จ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋์–ด?
It's been a year.์ผ ๋…„ ๋์–ด์š”.์ผ ๋…„ ๋์–ด.
I miss my family.๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œ์š”.๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด.
I'm still getting used to it.์•„์ง ์ ์‘ ์ค‘์ด์—์š”.์•„์ง ์ ์‘ ์ค‘์ด์•ผ.
Let's keep in touch.๊ณ„์† ์—ฐ๋ฝํ•ด์š”.๊ณ„์† ์—ฐ๋ฝํ•˜์ž.
Thanks to youโ€ฆ๋•๋ถ„์—์š”.๋„ค ๋•๋ถ„์ด์•ผ.

๐Ÿ”ค Three Verbs for Settling In โ€” ๋™์‚ฌ

VerbEveryday polite (-์š”)Formal (-ใ…‚๋‹ˆ๋‹ค)Casual
to get used to (์ ์‘ํ•˜๋‹ค)์ ์‘ํ•ด์š”์ ์‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค์ ์‘ํ•ด
to make friends (์‚ฌ๊ท€๋‹ค)์‚ฌ๊ท€์–ด์š”์‚ฌ๊ท‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค์‚ฌ๊ท€์–ด
to miss; long for (๊ทธ๋ฆฝ๋‹ค, ใ…‚-irregular)๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œ์š”๊ทธ๋ฆฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œ

๐Ÿงฑ The Tool of the Chapter: -(์œผ)ใ„ด ์ง€ โ€ฆ ๋์–ด์š”

To say how long it has been since something happened, attach -(์œผ)ใ„ด ์ง€ to the verb (-ใ„ด ์ง€ after a vowel stem, -์€ ์ง€ after a consonant stem), then give the length of time and finish with ๋์–ด์š” (or ๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์š”, "has become"): ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ์˜จ ์ง€ ์ด ๋…„ ๋์–ด์š” ("it has been two years since I came to Korea"), ๊ณต๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์ง€ ์‚ผ ๊ฐœ์›” ๋์–ด์š”, ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ•œ ์ง€ ์˜ค ๋…„ ๋์–ด์š”. A stem ending in ใ„น drops it: ์‚ด๋‹ค โ†’ ์‚ฐ ์ง€ (์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ์‚ฐ ์ง€ ์ผ ๋…„ ๋์–ด์š”). The time word before ๋์–ด์š” uses Sino-Korean numbers with a unit: ์ผ ๋…„ (a year), ์‚ผ ๊ฐœ์›” (3 months), ์ด ์ฃผ์ผ (2 weeks), and ์ดํ‹€, ์‚ฌํ˜ for days. Note that ์ง€ here is the noun "time passed" and is written separated from the verb.

Ask with โ€ฆํ•œ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋์–ด์š”? ("how long has it been sinceโ€ฆ?"). For something that happened only recently, say โ€ฆํ•œ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ ์•ˆ ๋์–ด์š” ("it hasn't been long sinceโ€ฆ"): ์ด์‚ฌ ์˜จ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ ์•ˆ ๋์–ด์š”. With a negative verb, ๋ชป ๋ณธ ์ง€ ์ผ ๋…„์ด ๋์–ด์š” means "it's been a year since I last saw (them)", so the negative is placed inside the first clause.

PatternExampleEnglish
-(์œผ)ใ„ด ์ง€ โ€ฆ ๋์–ด์š”ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šด ์ง€ ๋ฐ˜๋…„ ๋์–ด์š”.It's been half a year since I started learning Korean.
-(์œผ)ใ„ด ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋์–ด์š”?์ด ์ผ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋์–ด์š”?How long has it been since you started this job?
-(์œผ)ใ„ด ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ ์•ˆ ๋์–ด์š”์ด์‚ฌ ์˜จ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ ์•ˆ ๋์–ด์š”.It hasn't been long since I moved here.
๋˜๋‹ค + ์ง€ ("since becoming")์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋œ ์ง€ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋์–ด์š”.It's been a long time since we became friends.

๐Ÿ“– Reading โ€” ์ฝ๊ธฐ: ์—๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ ์”จ์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ƒํ™œ

์—๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ ์”จ์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ƒํ™œ ์—๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ ์”จ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ์˜จ ์ง€ ์ผ ๋…„์ด ๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ชฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋งŽ์ด ํž˜๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Œ์‹๋„ ๋‚ฏ์„ค๊ณ  ๋ฌธํ™”๋„ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์„œ ์™ธ๋กœ์šธ ๋•Œ๋„ ๋งŽ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์—๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ ์”จ๋Š” ์–ธ์–ด ๊ตํ™˜ ๋ชจ์ž„์— ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์—์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์„ ์‚ฌ๊ท€์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ฐ™์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด์™€ ์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ƒํ™œ์— ๋งŽ์ด ์ ์‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๋” ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฝ์ง€๋งŒ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—๋„ ์ข‹์€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฒจ์„œ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ ์”จ๋Š” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ณ„์† ์‚ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Word list: ๊ฑฐ์˜ (almost; hardly) ยท ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•˜๋‹ค (to decide to go and see) ยท ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋‹ค (to come to have) ยท ์•ž์œผ๋กœ (from now on)

True or false? (๋งž์œผ๋ฉด O, ํ‹€๋ฆฌ๋ฉด X)

1. ์—๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ ์”จ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ์˜จ ์ง€ ์ผ ๋…„์ด ๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
2. ์—๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ ์”จ๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ์ž˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
3. ์—๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ ์”จ๋Š” ์–ธ์–ด ๊ตํ™˜ ๋ชจ์ž„์—์„œ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๊ท€์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
4. ์—๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ ์”จ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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1. O ยท 2. X (she knew almost no Korean at first, ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ชฐ๋ผ์„œ) ยท 3. O ยท 4. X (she is happy because she has good friends in Korea)

๐Ÿ“– Vocabulary โ€” ์–ดํœ˜

#KoreanSay itEnglishType
1์™ธ๊ตญ ์ƒํ™œoe-guk saeng-hwallife abroadnoun
2๋ฌธํ™” ์ฐจ์ดmun-hwa cha-icultural differencenoun
3์–ธ์–ด ๊ตํ™˜eo-neo gyo-hwanlanguage exchangenoun
4๋ชจ์ž„mo-imgathering; meetupnoun
5์ด์›ƒi-utneighbournoun
6์นœ๊ตฌchin-gufriendnoun
7์˜์ƒ ํ†ตํ™”yeong-sang tong-hwavideo callnoun
8์šฉ๊ธฐyong-gicouragenoun
9์ ์‘ํ•˜๋‹คjeo-geung-ha-dato adapt; to get used toverb
10์‚ฌ๊ท€๋‹คsa-gwi-dato make friends; to go out withverb
11์ต์ˆ™ํ•ด์ง€๋‹คik-ssu-kae-ji-dato become familiarverb
12๊ฒช๋‹คgyeok-ttato experience; to go throughverb
13๋‹นํ™ฉํ•˜๋‹คdang-hwang-ha-dato be flusteredverb
14์™ธ๋กญ๋‹คoe-rop-ttato be lonelyadj
15๊ทธ๋ฆฝ๋‹คgeu-rip-ttato miss; to long foradj
16๋‚ฏ์„ค๋‹คnat-sseol-dato be unfamiliar; strangeadj
17๋ถ€๋„๋Ÿฝ๋‹คbu-kkeu-reop-ttato be shy; embarrassedadj
18์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๋‹คja-yeon-seu-reop-ttato be naturaladj
19์„œ๋กœseo-roeach other; mutuallyadverb
20๋•๋ถ„์—deok-ppu-nethanks tophrase
Making Friends in Korea (from the sources) Guides for foreigners name language exchanges as the most common starting point, with groups on Meetup, Naver Band and Tandem and weekly sessions in areas such as Hongdae, Sinchon and Gangnam. Online, large Facebook groups for expats are a hub, and teachers often make their first friends among colleagues. One guide warns that the line between a "language exchange" and dating can blur on apps. A 2023 survey of about 25,000 foreigners reported by Korean media found that the language barrier and loneliness were the biggest struggles, with loneliness named by 28.8 percent. Long-time residents say good friendships take time. These are blogs, news items and surveys, so treat them as a general picture rather than a rule.
Culture Shock and Age Questions Expat guides describe culture shock as a pattern: a "honeymoon" phase at first, then a low period of homesickness before you settle in, and most foreigners go through some version of it. In Korean, being asked your age soon after meeting someone is usually not nosiness: speakers need it (or your birth year, ๋ช‡ ๋…„์ƒ) to choose the right speech level and form of address. That is general knowledge, not from the search; Chapter 7 covers the age system.
As Heard in Dramas โ€” ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์—์„œ Dramas about foreigners or returnees are full of homesick lines: ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œ์š” ("I miss home"), ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” ("I miss you"), and the warm ๋„ค ๋•๋ถ„์ด์•ผ ("it's thanks to you"). When a character says ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ์ง€ ๋ฒŒ์จ ์˜ค ๋…„์ด์•ผ ("it's already been five years since we met"), a flashback is usually about to begin.
Grammar Pointer The noun clause behind -(์œผ)ใ„ด ์ง€ is the past modifier from Chapter 4 (-(์œผ)ใ„ด + noun). The explanation -๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” (Chapter 7), -์ž–์•„ (Chapter 11), -(์œผ)ใ„น ํ…๋ฐ (Chapter 10), the advice -๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋•Œ์š” (Chapter 9) and -์•„/์–ด์„œ (Chapter 3) all return in this chapter's dialogs, so it works as a review.

โœ๏ธ Try It Yourself โ€” ์—ฐ์Šต

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1. Ask "How long has it been since you came to Korea?"

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ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ์˜จ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋์–ด์š”?

2. Say "It's been two years since I started studying Korean."

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ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์ง€ ์ด ๋…„ ๋์–ด์š”.

3. Say "It hasn't been long since I moved here."

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์ด์‚ฌ ์˜จ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ ์•ˆ ๋์–ด์š”.

4. Say "I miss my hometown, you see. It's been a year since I saw my family."

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๊ณ ํ–ฅ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฝ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ๊ฐ€์กฑ์„ ๋ชป ๋ณธ ์ง€ ์ผ ๋…„ ๋์–ด์š”.

5. Suggest "How about going to a language exchange meeting?"

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์–ธ์–ด ๊ตํ™˜ ๋ชจ์ž„์— ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋•Œ์š”?

6. Tell a friend casually "Thanks to you, my Korean has improved a lot."

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๋„ค ๋•๋ถ„์— ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์ด ๋Š˜์—ˆ์–ด.

๐ŸŽ“ Course Complete โ€” ์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

You have finished Korean Basic Conversation 3. Here is what the twelve chapters gave you.

ChapterTopicNew tools
1Buying Clothes-์•„/์–ด ๋ณด๋‹ค, -์•„/์–ด๋„ ๋˜๋‹ค, -(๋Š”)๋ฐ์š”
2Planning a Trip-(์œผ)๋ ค๊ณ , -(์œผ)๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค, -๊ธฐ ์ „์—, -(์œผ)ใ„ด ํ›„์—
3Post Office, Bank & Paying Bills-์•„/์–ด์„œ (reason and sequence)
4Looking for a Place to Liveverb modifiers -๋Š” / -(์œผ)ใ„ด / -(์œผ)ใ„น + noun
5Work & Careers-๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค, -(์œผ)ใ„ด ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค, the formal style
6At Workhonorific -(์œผ)์‹œ-, -์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?
7Telling Your Story-(์œผ)ใ„น ๋•Œ, -๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‹ค, -๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”
8Technology & Mediareported speech -๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”
9Giving Advice-๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”, -์ง€ ๊ทธ๋ž˜์š”?, -(์œผ)๋‹ˆ๊นŒ
10Wishes & Hopes-(์œผ)๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”, -(์œผ)ใ„น ํ…๋ฐ, ๋งŒ์•ฝ
11Customs & Festivals-์ž–์•„์š”, noun clauses -๋Š” ๊ฒƒ / -๊ธฐ
12Living Abroad-(์œผ)ใ„ด ์ง€ โ€ฆ ๋์–ด์š”
Where Next? You can now hold a connected conversation about everyday errands, work, your own story, advice and traditions, and follow the reasons behind what people say. The natural next step is Korean Basic Conversation 4, which is not written yet. Meanwhile, keep using your Korean: watch dramas with Korean subtitles, join a language exchange, and write a few lines about your day each evening. ์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!