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What's "Act Cute" In Korean? · Easy Korean

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  Speaker 1: It's easy Korean. Class 95
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  Speaker 1: leo it's has been together with Professor K pop for
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  Speaker 1: our easy korean podcast. Hello, say the korean english E
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  Speaker 1: g korean. Easy korean, is that correct? It's congress, korean
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  Speaker 1: english korean. E Z korean. E G E G E
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  Speaker 1: G korean. E g korean. All right, okay, so what
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  Speaker 1: are we going to learn today? Today? We're going to
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  Speaker 1: learn something that a lot of Koreans have in their personalities. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: what is this? Well, we kind of use it as
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  Speaker 1: a weapon as well. Okay, okay. And it's this thing called,
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  Speaker 1: have you heard of it before? It sounds very eggy, eggy.
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  Speaker 1: It hasn't got anything to do with egg. No, it
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  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with eggs, but ego is a
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  Speaker 1: little difficult to explain to non korean speakers. Thanks. But
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  Speaker 1: basically it's acting cute. Oh
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  Speaker 1: yeah, okay. Acting cute and likes me or acting cute
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  Speaker 1: and somebody wants to slap you sort of way. It
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  Speaker 1: depends on how the receiving end takes it. So, some
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  Speaker 1: people really like ago. Okay. Some people hate it. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And some people, like I described use it as a
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  Speaker 1: weapon to get what they want. Do you? Uh well
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  Speaker 1: you can ask my boyfriend. Oh, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a version of their, I guess. Oh my goodness, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you nailed it again. Come on. Oh my gosh, I
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  Speaker 1: want to slap myself right now. But yeah, your ego
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  Speaker 1: is too much. So that's how you use it. Okay. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so ego is not really like used in a sentence
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  Speaker 1: per se, but you act in an egg, You kind
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  Speaker 1: of way. Okay so let's say you are acting in
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  Speaker 1: the acute sort of way can I say I go,
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  Speaker 1: oh no you don't say that. So when you use
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  Speaker 1: this word you use it when a person is acting
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  Speaker 1: cute and you say oh your ego is too much. Okay. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I guess you, you have to learn how to
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  Speaker 1: speak in korean sentences, they're able to use this word,
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  Speaker 1: but this is just how you describe a person acting
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  Speaker 1: cute in Korea. Okay. Yeah, so if you watch korean
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  Speaker 1: dramas and the female lead is like oh
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  Speaker 1: oh my goodness, that's what Koreans call. I go I
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  Speaker 1: like it. Okay, break it down for us. So this
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  Speaker 1: is not really something that we would use in the
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  Speaker 1: language but it's just good to know what it means exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Okay so how do you say it? Uh what cure?
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  Speaker 1: I would say it's K Y O K O K
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  Speaker 1: Q
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  Speaker 1: yeah Eagle.
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  Speaker 1: But it sounds like a G O. I would say
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those in between my k pronunciations. Okay
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, you nailed it. So it's egg que but
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  Speaker 1: if you say it fast, yes, thank you. Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay let's see who can who can do you more
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  Speaker 1: goodness you go first. Oh yeah, see I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to do this with you anymore. Why are you always
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  Speaker 1: complaining about doing is karina I'm gonna I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: over there, I'm gonna get you right now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. So now my turn jen, don't go to korean,
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  Speaker 1: changing my flight booking details to tomorrow. Now, you know
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  Speaker 1: what ego means? Easy korean last 95.