Near-native command: nuance, register, proverbs, and unfamiliar specialist material read at speed.
Can-do: Perform research and professional duties accurately and fluently, close to a native speaker.
Ordered by frequency, so the first ones are the ones you will meet first.
rank
등 이다.
Back Door.
등만 그런 것도 아니에요
And it's not just my back.
등만 아픈 게 아니야
It's not just my back, baby.
노테르담, 시드니의 하버 브리지, 세계무역센터 등에서 말이죠.
Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center.
system
두 번째로 큰 경제 체제는 중국입니다.
The second largest economy is China.
우리는 체제를 바꿔야 한다.
We need to change the system.
체제의 일부가 되어야 합니다.
Be a part of the system.
우리도 이 체제의 일부입니다.
We're part of this system, too.
rule, control
그런데 왜 푸투라가 세계를 지배했을까요?
Then why did Futura take over the world?
여자가 남자의 행동을 지배한다고 배웠습니다.
We were taught that women controlled the behavior of men.
그것은 우리 세상의 지배권을 가지게 될것입니다.
It would have to have dominion over all of our world.
내가 지배하게 되는 거지
And it will be mine to rule.
member of a parliament or assembly
당신의 지역 의원에게 전화해.
Call your congressman.
그들과 친구였거든요. 팁 오닐 의원 같은 사람들이요.
I was friends with those old guys, like Tip O'Neill and all of those people.
의원님이 너에게 할 말이 있으시다고 한다
The senator would like a word with you.
슈퍼맨이 의원들과 국민, 그리고 전 세계에 자신의 입장을 밝힐 것입니다
Now we expect that Superman will give some kind of a statement to the Senate, to the American people, and of course, to the world.
aristocrat
선거는 귀족을 위한 장치라는 걸 알았던 것이죠.
They knew that elections were aristocratic devices.
[귀ː족] spelled 귀족
그의 아버지는 귀족인 사르토리우스 디 모라이다.
His father was the nobleman Sartorius di Morra.
귀족들 말이지?
Aristocrats?
귀족들은 들어라!
Round up the aristocrats.
main agent, principal agent
경제는 이를 구성하는 주체가 건강할 때 건강할 수 있습니다.
Now, an economy is only as healthy as the entities that make it up.
감정을 주체할 수가 없거든
I'm unable to control my emotions.
우리는 우리 삶의 주체입니다.
We have agency. We are the subjects of our own lives.
기억하는 주체에게는 그렇지만은 않습니다.
That's not the way it works at all for the remembering self.
the prosecutor's office
세번째로, 슈타지는 검찰의 역할도 가졌습니다.
Thirdly, the Stasi worked as a kind of public prosecutor.
[검ː찰] spelled 검찰
씨 검찰, 당신은 계속할 수 있습니다.
Mr. Public Prosecutor, you may proceed.
검찰에서 키팅에 대한 모든 기록을 갖고 있어요
This office has files on everyone in Ms. Keating's life.
우린 세상 어느 검찰보다도 가진 자원이 많다고요
We have more resources than any governmental prosecutorial division in the world.
party, faction
첫 5년 동안은 제가 당 대표였죠.
I led it for its first five years.
신이시여, 이 당을 지켜주세요.
Oh God, please save this party.
당에 들어와 그게 힘을 줄 거야
Join the Party. That gives power.
당을 생산하는 매우 효과적인 방법이에요
Now that's a very efficient way of producing sugars.
This site lists 2,965 words graded to 6급. Counting every level up to and including it, that is 12,331 words in total — the cumulative figure is the one that matters, because 6급 assumes everything below it.
Perform research and professional duties accurately and fluently, close to a native speaker.
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 2,965 words take about 22 weeks on their own. Reaching it from zero means the 12,331 cumulative words, which is closer to 21 months at the same pace.
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