day 87exams and expressions
unit 13 · learning, letters & the artsexams and expressions
Talk about exams, school systems and the Korean language itself: dialects, slang, honorifics, spacing and idioms.
today’s words
- 지망 jimang · choice, preference (of school)
- 지문 jimun · (reading) passage
- 지적 jijeok · intellectual
- 체벌 chebeol · corporal punishment
- 출제 chulje · setting (exam questions)
- 취학 chwihak · starting school
- 터득 teodeuk · mastering, getting the hang of
- 편입 pyeonip · transfer (into a university)
- 학식 haksik · learning, scholarship
- 해박하다 haebakada · very knowledgeable (in a field)
- 격언 gyeogeon · saying, maxim
- 공용어 gongyongeo · official language
- 관용적 gwanyongjeok · idiomatic
- 구어 gueo · spoken language, colloquial
- 높임법 nopimbeop · honorifics (system)
- 능통하다 neungtonghada · fluent, expert (in a language)
- 동시통역 dongsitongyeok · simultaneous interpreting
- 된소리 doensori · tense consonant (ㄲ ㄸ ㅃ ㅆ ㅉ)
- 띄어쓰기 ttuieosseugi · spacing between words
- 명칭 myeongching · name, title (official)
- 방언 bangeon · dialect
- 비속어 bisogeo · slang, vulgar words
sentences
- 그 학생의 1지망 학과는 경영학과이다. · That student’s first-choice department is business administration.
- 소설 속 식량난 장면이 지문으로 출제되었다. · A scene about a food shortage from a novel was set as a reading passage.
- 영재가 아니라도 아이들은 지적 호기심이 강하다. · Even if they are not prodigies, children have a strong intellectual curiosity.
- 학교에서의 체벌은 법으로 금지되어 있다. · Corporal punishment in schools is banned by law.
- 올해 초등학교 취학 아동 수가 크게 줄었다. · The number of children starting primary school has fallen sharply this year.