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How Koreans react when they're surprised! · Easy Korean

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  Speaker 1: Korean
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  Speaker 1: 95. We took a short break, but we are back.
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  Speaker 2: Finally, Yay, where, where did you go? You left
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  Speaker 1: me all behind. Ai, you have left me behind more often, OK? Haiya.
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  Speaker 1: I was away for work, but I'm back and we
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  Speaker 1: have E Korean where we learn very simple easy Korean phrases.
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  Speaker 2: So happy to have you back. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy to be
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  Speaker 1: back. I missed you, my little Korean munchkin.
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  Speaker 2: You know, one of the favorite things that we like
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  Speaker 2: to do to each other is like scaring each other
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  Speaker 2: and like pranking each other um from the dark.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and I've gotten you a couple of times, you've
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  Speaker 1: gotten me a couple of times as well. I still
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  Speaker 1: owe you actually. The last one was you. OK, now
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  Speaker 1: that you reminded me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh,
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  Speaker 2: let's not go back to doing it because our hearts
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  Speaker 2: are getting weaker and one day we might actually, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's, it's good for you. I'm I'm jumpstarting your heart,
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  Speaker 1: getting a bit, you know, getting it to beat a
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  Speaker 1: It's like, bam, look at me, I'm helping you out.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. But I was just wondering, have you ever heard
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  Speaker 2: my reaction whenever you scare me? Like sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's either or actually uh one of my reflexes
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  Speaker 2: is to say it in Korean. Have you noticed what
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  Speaker 2: I say in Korean when I'm surprised? No,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm too busy laughing.
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  Speaker 2: I like to say
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  Speaker 1: ohaa. Oh yeah, yeah, I've heard it before.
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  Speaker 1: Ohaya. And
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  Speaker 2: what does it mean? So you know how in English
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  Speaker 2: you like to say, oh my gosh, oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 2: oh my God. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In Korean, we say oha, which means oh my mother.
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  Speaker 1: OK, but
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  Speaker 1: is this a rude phrase? We should we be teaching
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  Speaker 1: this on easy Korean? Excuse me. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's not rude.
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  Speaker 2: At all. I think it's very common as like a
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  Speaker 2: reflex for many Koreans when they're surprised.
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  Speaker 1: Why not my
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  Speaker 1: father?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It just, it
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  Speaker 1: just
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  Speaker 2: is.
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  Speaker 1: So is it the equivalent of oh my gosh. Yes, IMG.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is the
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  Speaker 1: equivalent. OK, my mother. Yeah, OK, and moms are totally
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  Speaker 1: OK with this.
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  Speaker 2: I believe they are
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  Speaker 1: OK.
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  Speaker 1: Do not use my mom's name in vain. OK, OK,
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  Speaker 2: OK, super easy. So in Korean, mother is Father is
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  Speaker 1: apapa. No, I'm just kidding, sorry. OK, Yazi.
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  Speaker 2: Yay. Let's get back to it. It's like an EO
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  Speaker 2: OK um and when we.
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  Speaker 2: All out to our oh my oh my oh my
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  Speaker 2: oh right,
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  Speaker 1: yeah, it's just like ah yes, so my mother, it
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  Speaker 1: basically means mother. ah ah mother. OK, so cute. OK,
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  Speaker 1: break it down for us. Let's do this together. Um, um, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my, oh my, um, so the emphasis is on
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  Speaker 1: the first syllable, ah, um, um,
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  Speaker 1: yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: one last time, um, um, ma,
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  Speaker 1: ma, yeah, yeah. Oh my, oh my yeah. OK, let's practice.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a scenario. I can say this.
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  Speaker 2: I'll
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  Speaker 1: be
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  Speaker 2: like, huh, I wonder when Yasi will be coming into
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  Speaker 2: the studio today. 00.
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  Speaker 1: Can you use this also, let's say, um, you order
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  Speaker 1: a bowl of noodles and it arrives and it's like
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  Speaker 1: so big you're like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: that's not that's not very surprising.
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  Speaker 1: What if it's bigger than what it says in the picture,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you're surprised. It's really like
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  Speaker 2: a
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  Speaker 1: reflex.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you could say when you spill that bowl
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  Speaker 2: of piping hot noodles and you're
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  Speaker 2: like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my yeah, OK, or if I kick you, then
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  Speaker 1: you go, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah, it's like a reflex. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: let me kick you.
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  Speaker 1: Easy Korean.
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