2StoryEveryday life1 min
처음 만든 김치찌개
A first attempt at cooking, a phone call home and a second try.
Instructions and attempts: -아/어 보다 for trying something, -(으)ㄹ 때 for "when", and the recipe-style -(으)세요. Food vocabulary from everyday cooking runs through the whole text.
대학교에 들어가서 저는 혼자 살게 됐어요. 처음으로 김치찌개를 만들어 보기로 했어요.
마트에서 김치와 돼지고기, 두부, 파를 샀어요. 집에 와서 인터넷으로 만드는 방법을 찾아봤어요.
그런데 찌개가 너무 짰어요. 물을 더 넣었지만 이번에는 맛이 너무 싱거워졌어요.
그래서 엄마한테 전화했어요. 엄마는 웃으면서 말씀하셨어요. "물은 처음부터 조금만 넣어 봐. 그리고 소금은 마지막에 조금만 넣어."
다음 날 다시 만들었어요. 이번에는 정말 맛있었어요. 친구를 불러서 같이 먹었어요.
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- Words
- 61
- Sentences
- 13
- Words per sentence
- 4.7
- in the vocabulary
- 100 %
- measured level
- 2
- Reading time
- 1 min
The words from 2 up in this text
Not the hard words in general, but those at your level: all 18 of the 49 words in this text are at 2 or above. You will know everything else by the time you get here.
그래서
so; and so
2그런데
but; by the way
2김치찌개
kimchi stew
3넣다
to put in
2다음
next; following
2대학교
university
2돼지고기
pork
2됐어요
no thanks; never mind; that will do
2두부
tofu
2마트
supermarket
2말씀하시다
to say, speak (honorific)
2맛
taste, flavour
2방법
way; method
2소금
salt
2싱겁다
to be bland, not salty enough
2인터넷
the internet
2짜다
to be salty
2찾아보다
to look up; to search for
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The word lists for this text
The words in this text appear in 24 lists on this site; the number after each says how many come from that list. Having read the text, you have just needed these very words — and can practise exactly them.
Comprehension questions
3 questions on the text. With each answer the sentence it comes from appears — a question whose answer you cannot find in the text tests nothing.
1. What went wrong the first time?
찌개가 너무 짰어요
2. What did the mother advise?
물은 처음부터 조금만 넣어 봐
3. What did the narrator do with the second stew?
친구를 불러서 같이 먹었어요