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교육 education

학교 school

교실 classroom

반 class

학년 grade

선생님 teacher

학생 students

방학 vacation

시험 exams

숙제 homework

사립 학교 private schools

공립 학교 public schools

유치원 kindergarten

초등학교 elementary schools

중학교 middle schools

고등학교 high schools

대학교 university

대학원 graduate school

입학 entrance

졸업 graducation

결석하다 to be absent <->출석하다

배우다 learn

가르치다 teach

공부하다 study

놀다 play

학습 learning

습득 aquisition

사전 dictionary

any other words?

My daughter, 민서,  usually has hard time falling asleep.

While I try to put her to sleep, she often asks for water, 5 times or more.

Last night it went same as usual.

By the time it reached to her 5th time, I didn’t want to put myself up and get water(even though it was in the same room, on the shelf)

민서: 물 주세요. 엄마

        Give me some water.

엄마: 또?, 물 꼭 마셔야 돼? 그냥 자!!

       Again?, You don’t really need to drink it, do you? Just sleep!!

민서: 아아, 물 먹기 싫어요.

       uh~, I don’t want to drink water.

       (She didn’t mean to say this, but when I’m opposed to what she wants, she often makes mistakes by saying negative things. What she wanted to say was 물 먹고 싶어요-I want to drink water)

엄마: 물 먹기 싫다고? 그래. 물 먹지 마.

       You don’t want to drink water? Well, don’t drink it then.

민서: (realizing she said something wrong)

       아니, 물 먹기 좋아요.

       No, I like drinking water.

엄마: 하!하!하!

       (I laughed because she was good to put 좋아요 to replace 싫어요 but that’s not what is normally said)

After this conversation, I realized that the opposite of ‘물 먹기 싫어요’ is NOT ‘물 먹기 좋아요’ BUT ‘물 먹고 싶어요’

When ‘좋다’ is used as in ‘~기(가/에) 좋다’, it means ‘good/convenient/easy to do~)

먹기 좋다

보기가 좋다

살기 좋다

숨기에 좋다

팔기에 좋다