The independent-user threshold: honorifics used properly, indirect speech, and 합니다체 for formal settings.
Can-do: Live day to day in Korean without much difficulty, use public services and hold social relationships.
Ordered by frequency, so the first ones are the ones you will meet first.
to not do something
내가 하지 않아도 되겠어?
Sure you don't want me to take over?
그는 하지 않았어요
He didn't do it.
말이 되지 않았죠.
And it didn't make sense.
그렇게 하지않도록 하십시오.
Try not to do that.
to pertain or relate to a topic
이에 대해 우리가 할 수 있는 게 없을까요?
Is there anything we can possibly do about this?
[대ː하다] spelled 대하다
사람처럼 대해 주세요
Make him feel like a person.
이 사람에 대해서는 뭐라고 할 수 있을까요?
What can you tell about this guy?
사람에 대해 생각합니다.
Think about the human being.
to do for the sake of
난 나를위해서만 말을할수있어.
I can only speak for myself.
우리를 위해 하는 거야
I'm doing it for us,
우리가 다니엘을 위해 할 수 있는 일은 없어요
We can't do anything for Daniel.
아프가니스탄은 물라 무스타파 같은 사람들만 있는 것을 말하기 위함은 아닙니다.
Afghanistan is a place full of people like Mullah Mustafa.
society
우리 사회도 그렇습니다.
And so do our societies.
사회를 보다
to preside over a meeting or ceremony
이사회라면?
Board meeting?
사회적인 뭔가가 있어야 합니다.
You need the social stuff there.
to follow
나 따라 해.
Repeat after me.
그들은 따라하기로 했어요.
They decided they wanted to do the same.
사람들 말에 따르면,
Through word of mouth.
따라 하고 있죠.
We want to emulate them.
place
갈 데까지 가서는..
This was a blind alley.
데인 앳킨슨 같은 사람이죠.
Like Dane Atkinson.
좋은 데
good place
난 갈 데도 없어
I have nowhere to be.
case
이 경우에는 문제가 없다고 본다.
I think it's not a problem in this case.
그런 경우도 있지 않을까요?
Is there a case for that?
그리고 이 경우에, du는 dx와 같습니다.
And in that case, du is equal to dx.
이 경우, 2a가 8이라면 a는 -4가 될 것입니다
In this case, if we said 2a is equal to 8, a would be minus 4.
circumstances
이 경우에는 문제가 없다고 본다.
I think it's not a problem in this case.
그런 경우도 있지 않을까요?
Is there a case for that?
그리고 이 경우에, du는 dx와 같습니다.
And in that case, du is equal to dx.
이 경우, 2a가 8이라면 a는 -4가 될 것입니다
In this case, if we said 2a is equal to 8, a would be minus 4.
This site lists 1,972 words graded to 3급. Counting every level up to and including it, that is 4,353 words in total — the cumulative figure is the one that matters, because 3급 assumes everything below it.
Live day to day in Korean without much difficulty, use public services and hold social relationships.
TOPIK II. Two sittings totalling 180 minutes, covering listening, writing and reading, scored out of 300. It is the only test with a writing section.
At twenty new words a day, this level's 1,972 words take about 15 weeks on their own. Reaching it from zero means the 4,353 cumulative words, which is closer to 8 months at the same pace.
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