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Speaker 1:An American man is driving in Seoul and stops to ask for directions. You will hear tall, which is something like her in English.
Speaker 2:Tom del so sleiman cho yeo ah.
Speaker 3:Grum yeah, Coco oil yeah. Requ to come.
Speaker 2:So sleiman she to ah grum.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Coco oil yeah, recky lo.
Speaker 1:Do you remember how to say please go straight down this road?
Speaker 3:Yea requilo?
Speaker 1:How do you say, I'd like to buy an English newspaper?
Speaker 2:Don't touch him his How is paol?
Speaker 1:You're at a hotel in Seoul at the front desk, say my wife is sick, cheaegga payol. How does the clerk express her sympathy? Joe? You ask her is a hospital close?
Speaker 2:Keilania Coca oil?
Speaker 1:How would she say? It's not very close?
Speaker 3:Hello and Coco oil.
Speaker 1:Tell her I'd like to call a taxi.
Speaker 2:Perepol.
Speaker 1:She says, wait a minute, please.
Speaker 3:Tomschimanyo.
Speaker 1:She gives you the directions to the hospital. Then after a while she says, here comes a taxi.
Speaker 3:Texi. Go on now.
Speaker 1:How does she stop the taxi by saying.
Speaker 3:Here, yogio, yogio, Tell.
Speaker 1:The taxi driver please go straight down this road. About two hundred meters.
Speaker 2:Y bing me, hell bing me.
Speaker 1:And to the right, an you'll see a pharmacy ya. Please turn at that corner to the left. A few days later, you're talking with a friend. You tell her you have a cold. How does she express her sympathy?
Speaker 3:Oh, tokyo jo.
Speaker 1:Then you talk about your son in college. She asks which school is it?
Speaker 3:Musuki el.
Speaker 1:She also asks is the school close?
Speaker 3:How welcko el?
Speaker 1:Yes? But as for us, we often talk on the phone. Yeah, hajjima, She says, her daughter is not well. Express sympathy. I'll talk at you, she says, we sometimes talk on the phone.
Speaker 3:Jumjuma hel.
Speaker 1:Now you are buying a train ticket to Poussan. One ticket, please.
Speaker 2:The god.
Speaker 4:Handang de sel hanzan tang handan handang deazel.
Speaker 1:Tang is a counter for thin flat objects such as paper and stamps. Say one please, ticket is understood, handang dezel handang dezel. To buy one ticket to Poussan, just say Poussan one ticket, please try it.
Speaker 2:Pussan handanga sel.
Speaker 1:The clerk gives you the ticket, saying it's six thousand and one. You give her a ten thousand and one note and she gives back the change.
Speaker 3:Here's change to gotavio coserumtun room costsu cossurrum cosumn.
Speaker 1:That's literally change money. How do you say.
Speaker 2:Change cosmon cosranton.
Speaker 1:She says it's four thousand and one, change.
Speaker 5:To quotao Cosumnida sach on in Nida Cosumnida.
Speaker 2:You could use yeo.
Speaker 1:Instead, but a clerk generally would politely use Suppose you buy another ticket, How does the clerk say politely it is two thousand and one? Now she says it's six thousand one change KOs. How would she say it's four thousand, two hundred one change KOs. You want to ask, where is the platform for the Poussan bound Poussan bound.
Speaker 2:Too, Pussan hang mhm heng heng Pussan hang.
Speaker 1:Say Poussan bound pussan hang the platform to.
Speaker 2:Sing gang zang chiang kangjang sin sing gang zang.
Speaker 1:Now, where is the platform for the Poussan bound.
Speaker 4:To pussananzang a del singhangzangi Pussan s gangzang pussanandang o deoh?
Speaker 1:Where is the platform for the Poussan.
Speaker 2:Bound pussandangi audieo?
Speaker 1:What is the word for telephone number?
Speaker 3:Ponho pon.
Speaker 1:A shortened form of pnhu is used with the actual numbers. How would she say number eight literally eight.
Speaker 3:Number paibon pilebon.
Speaker 1:How would she say it's number eight platform.
Speaker 3:Paibon dangeh pibon.
Speaker 1:Let's try part of that again. Say a soul one ticket, please.
Speaker 2:Sol handange.
Speaker 1:You pay for the ticket. How would the clerk say, politely, here is the change, literally here change.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 3:Yogi yogi.
Speaker 1:Ask where is the platform for the soul bound.
Speaker 2:Soldeo?
Speaker 1:She tells you number seven.
Speaker 3:Chilbon chilbon.
Speaker 1:You want to ask how long it takes to get to Poussan here us How to say take as in takes how long to.
Speaker 6:Raio collo colo yo call collio collyo?
Speaker 7:How do you say, take colloyo to Poussan literally until Poussan bussan gagi pusan gazi.
Speaker 1:Now try to ask, how long does it take to Poussan, literally until Poussan? How much takes.
Speaker 2:Pussan caggiano?
Speaker 1:How would the clerk say forty.
Speaker 3:Minutes taship bun taship bun.
Speaker 1:Or she might say by express train it takes forty minutes first express train to go.
Speaker 5:Razo yocha cha yocha, kuso, kuso giota.
Speaker 1:Try to say, by express train.
Speaker 2:Kuotol giltaro roll khotol giltaro.
Speaker 1:How would she say, by express train it takes forty minutes.
Speaker 5:Kuzugo terros haspringoyel, kuzugo teros haspringoyel.
Speaker 1:There are many other types of trains designated by their speed. One of them, the super express train, is named KTX. KTX has been operating since two thousand and four as the fastest train in Korea, and it is common to say this train's name in English.
Speaker 5:Say by KTX, ktxud a, ktxudro.
Speaker 1:By KTX it takes twenty minutes.
Speaker 3:Kt x kt X.
Speaker 1:She wants to say that one train is faster than another, here's how to say more than quo.
Speaker 2:Pull dot pull dot all.
Speaker 1:Now try to say more than an express train. That's literally express train, more than.
Speaker 2:Quoto quot.
Speaker 1:Do you remember how to say it's fast.
Speaker 2:By lao by layo.
Speaker 1:Now, here's faster than an express train.
Speaker 2:To quotas hill quota to quotable to.
Speaker 1:You simply add quod hall to say faster than, slower, than, prettier than et cetera. How do you say, is faster than an express train?
Speaker 2:Quotable da to bio.
Speaker 1:Super express train not d with hill.
Speaker 3:Kt X.
Speaker 1:Now try to say the kt X is faster than the express train.
Speaker 5:KTX cigar kus on your table, Dao kt xiga kus on your table da topo.
Speaker 1:Say together is fast? Is faster than.
Speaker 2:By leo bao ba leo ba leo.
Speaker 1:She says, again, the kt X is faster than the express train.
Speaker 3:KTX cigar kus on your table too.
Speaker 1:It's number three platform.
Speaker 3:Some buds and dune, some buds and goung dunell.
Speaker 1:It's another day and you're walking with a friend. You stop a passer by and say, excuse me, I'm looking for a post office.
Speaker 2:Schlgiman will check over talk going in dal.
Speaker 1:He says, please go straight down this road you find the post office. Your friend asks, do you often write letters.
Speaker 3:Tajup Soil?
Speaker 1:Yes, but I sometimes talk on the phone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Hajjiman.
Speaker 1:Tell her my son is a college student. Chea, does your son often write letters?
Speaker 5:Didn't you mean Tajupil? Didn't you mean Tajul No?
Speaker 1:But as for us, we often talk on the phone.
Speaker 2:Anio Jademo.
Speaker 1:It's another day. Say to the clerk at the ticket window, Poussan one ticket please, Pussan handango. She says, it's six thousand, three hundred one.
Speaker 3:Yuke chans hmbeg yuk changs mbeg.
Speaker 1:Where is the platform for the Poussan bound Kussan dyieo, She says number six.
Speaker 3:Yuk bonh yukbon.
Speaker 1:Now she gives back the change, saying it's three thousand, seven hundred one change.
Speaker 3:Kozim don sam.
Speaker 1:To Poussan. How long does it take.
Speaker 2:Pusan cadio?
Speaker 1:She tells you forty minutes. Then she says the kt X is faster than the express train.
Speaker 3:KTX. Saga too, it's another day.
Speaker 1:You're at the hotel. Ask at the front desk. Is a pharmacy close?
Speaker 2:Yakil, My wife is not feeling well, nigga.
Speaker 1:The clerk asks, what should we do?
Speaker 3:Tokyo joe.
Speaker 2:Joe.
Speaker 1:She says, the pharmacy is not very.
Speaker 3:Close, Yako, give hello and gotta oil.
Speaker 1:Then I would like to call a taxi with.
Speaker 2:Chrome text.
Speaker 1:The clerk will call the taxi, so she says, wait a minute, please.
Speaker 3:Tamashimaniol.
Speaker 1:When the taxi arrives, she says, here comes the taxi.
Speaker 3:Taxi. Go on now all one now all.
Speaker 1:You give the taxi driver the directions to the pharmacy. Say please go straight down this road. Y you will see a hospital.
Speaker 2:Go on you now I owe, go on you now I owe.
Speaker 1:Please turn at that corner to the left.
Speaker 2:Ku konovento rotozo.
Speaker 1:Then you'll see a pharmacy to the right.
Speaker 2:Crom uruntoge akugnawayo.
Speaker 1:After you've bought the medicine, you say, I'd like to buy an English newspaper too.
Speaker 2:Jong Tasimundo's house poo.
Speaker 1:You buy some other items and ask how much is it in.
Speaker 2:All modu almayo.
Speaker 1:The store clerk says it's nine thousand one.
Speaker 3:Qu chan.
Speaker 1:But you remember another item, Say and I would like to buy water. Also do wulldos house pool willdos house? She says it's ten thousand and one in all. The clerk says, here is the change, Yogi. Now you're on a business trip. At the train station, say Incheon one ticket.
Speaker 2:Please inchon handandese.
Speaker 1:Ask the teller how long does it take to Incheon.
Speaker 2:Inchon Kaji.
Speaker 1:By express train? It takes forty minutes.
Speaker 3:Pu's on your Trospu.
Speaker 1:By k t X, it takes twenty minutes.
Speaker 3:KTX ro.
Speaker 1:Let's have a conversation this time. You're going to Soul, say sold one ticket please.
Speaker 2:Soul on Donzel.
Speaker 1:Ask where is the platform for the Soul bound.
Speaker 2:Sold ings and ganzanio yeo.
Speaker 1:She tells you it's number eight platform.
Speaker 3:Papas and goan Daniello.
Speaker 1:The kt X is faster than the express train.
Speaker 5:KTX Ciga kusuno tabudo KATX, Saga kuzongo chabu dao.
Speaker 1:Another customer comes to the ticket window and says, Poussan one ticket please.
Speaker 2:Passanan Danteo.
Speaker 1:He asks where is the platform for the Poussan.
Speaker 2:Bound Pussan names and ganzanio jeo.
Speaker 1:She answers it's number three platform.
Speaker 3:Some bonds and gang Danielle.
Speaker 1:He asks how long does it take to Poussan.
Speaker 2:Kuzan.
Speaker 1:She says by express train, it takes forty minutes.
Speaker 3:Kusop, She adds.
Speaker 1:The kt X is faster than the express.
Speaker 3:Train KTX coos on your table, dot.
Speaker 1:At a kiosk. Say that you'd like to buy an English newspaper.
Speaker 2:Jong jasmuns.
Speaker 1:You buy some other things. The clerk says it's six hundred one in all Udu, but she corrects herself and says it's four hundred one in all.
Speaker 3:Vudu's.
Speaker 1:And she says, here is the change, Yogi. This is the end of Unit twenty
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