Unit 24
Chinese Restaurant in Korea

Lesson
์ฌ๋ณด์ธ์? [yeo-bo-se-yo?]
Hello?
- People use it as a polite and neutral way to check if someone is on the line.
- It's rarely used outside phone calls.
๋ ๋ช
์์ฝ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๊น์? [du myeong ye-yak ga-neung-hal-kka-yo?]
Can I reserve a table for 2?
- ๋ ๋ช [du myeong] means "two people"
- ์์ฝ [ye-yak] means "reservation"
- ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๊น์? [ga-neung-hal-kka-yo?] means "Is it possible?"
๋ช ์๋ก ์์ฝ ๋์๋๋ฆด๊น์? [myeot si-ro ye-yak do-wa-deu-ril-kka-yo?]
What time would you like to make a reservation for?
- ๋ช ์๋ก [myeot si-ro] means "at what time"
- ์์ฝ [ye-yak] means "reservation"
- ๋์๋๋ฆด๊น์? [do-wa-deu-ril-kka-yo?] means "Can I help you?"
์ธ ์๋ก ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. [se si-ro bu-tak-deu-rim-ni-da]
Please reserve it for 3:00.
- ์ธ ์๋ก [se si-ro] means "at 3 o'clock"
- ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค [bu-tak-deu-rim-ni-da] means "Please take care of it."
Confirmation:
- ์ธ ์๋ก ๋ ๋ถ ์์ฝ ๋์ จ์ต๋๋ค. [se si-ro du bun ye-yak doe-syeot-seum-ni-da] โ A reservation has been made for two people at 3 o'clock.
Conversation
- A: ์ค๊ตญ์ง ์์ฝ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์!
Please make a reservation at the Chinese restaurant! - B: ์ฌ๋ณด์ธ์? [yeo-bo-se-yo?]
Hello? - C: ๋ค, ํธ์ด๋ค ๋ฐ์ ์
๋๋ค. ๋ง์ํ์ธ์.
Yes, this is Teuida restaurant. Go ahead. - B: ๋ ๋ช
์์ฝ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๊น์? [du myeong ye-yak ga-neung-hal-kka-yo?]
Can I reserve a table for 2? - C: ๋ช ์๋ก ์์ฝ ๋์๋๋ฆด๊น์?
What time would you like to make a reservation for? - B: ์ธ ์๋ก ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. [se si-ro bu-tak-deu-rim-ni-da]
Please reserve it for 3 o'clock. - C: ๋ค, ์ธ ์๋ก ๋ ๋ถ ์์ฝ ๋์
จ์ต๋๋ค.
Yes, a reservation has been made for two people at 3 o'clock. - B: ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. [gam-sa-ham-ni-da]
Thank you. - C: ๋ค ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค!
Yes, thank you!
Vocabulary
| Korean | English |
|---|---|
| ์ฌ๋ณด์ธ์ [yeo-bo-se-yo] | Hello (on the phone) |
| ์์ฝ [ye-yak] | reservation |
| ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋ค [ga-neung-ha-da] | to be possible |
| ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค [bu-tak-deu-rim-ni-da] | please (formal request) |