December Whole EBS Programs 2025

์ž…ํŠธ์˜ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ์น˜ Monday 15th December 2025 Native 329

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์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.12.15 — Strawberry Syrup ๋”ธ๊ธฐ์ฒญ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ

์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.12.16 — Granddaughter’s Ukulele Lessons ์†๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ์šฐ์ฟจ๋ ๋ ˆ ์ˆ˜์—…

์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.12.17 — From Office Worker to Professional ์ง์žฅ์ธ์—์„œ ์ง์—…์ธ์œผ๋กœ

์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.12.18 — Traveling Abroad with My Daughter ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ ์žฅ์• ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋”ธ๊ณผ์˜ ํ•ด์™ธ์—ฌํ–‰

์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.12.19 — Baking a Birthday Cake ์ƒ์ผ ์ผ€์ดํฌ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ

 

 

์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.12.15 — Strawberry Syrup ๋”ธ๊ธฐ์ฒญ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ

When late spring comes around and strawberries get cheaper, it's the perfect time to make strawberry syrup or jam.

๋Šฆ๋ด„์ด ๋˜๋ฉด ๋”ธ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์ €๋ ดํ•ด์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ๋”ธ๊ธฐ์ฒญ์ด๋‚˜ ๋”ธ๊ธฐ์žผ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์•„์ฃผ ์ข‹์€ ์‹œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* spring comes around : ๋ด„์ด ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋‹ค

* the perfect time to : ~ํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ๋”ฑ ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ ์‹œ๊ธฐ

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I started making strawberry syrup last year.

์ž‘๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ €๋Š” ๋”ธ๊ธฐ์ฒญ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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It's simple to make and tastes great, so it's ideal as a dessert for the whole family.

๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋„ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ง›๋„ ์ข‹์•„์„œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋ชจ๋‘์˜ ๋””์ €ํŠธ๋กœ ์†์ƒ‰์ด ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* simple to make : ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ

* for the whole family : ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ

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First, wash the strawberries, remove the stems, and dry them thoroughly.

๋จผ์ € ๋”ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊นจ๋—์ด ์”ป๊ณ  ๊ผญ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋”ด ๋‹ค์Œ ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* remove the stems : ๊ผญ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋–ผ๋‹ค

* dry something thoroughly : (~์„) ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋ง๋ฆฌ๋‹ค

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Put them in a bowl and mash them with a masher or fork.

๊ทธ๋ฆ‡์— ๋”ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ๋งค์…”๋‚˜ ํฌํฌ๋กœ ๊ณผ์œก์„ ๋ญ‰๊ฐœ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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When they have released some juice, add white sugar and stir until it dissolves.

๋”ธ๊ธฐ๋ฌผ์ด ์ ๋‹นํžˆ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋ฉด ํฐ ์„คํƒ•์„ ๋„ฃ์–ด ๋…น์„ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ €์–ด ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* stir until it dissolves : ๋…น์„ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ “๋‹ค

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That's all there is to it.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด ์™„์„ฑ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* all there is to it : ์ „๋ถ€, ๊ทธ์ € ๊ทธ๋ฟ

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Finally, pour the syrup into a sterilized glass jar and seal it tightly.

๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ์†Œ๋…ํ•œ ์œ ๋ฆฌ๋ณ‘์— ๋”ธ๊ธฐ์ฒญ์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ๋‹จ๋‹จํžˆ ๋ฐ€๋ด‰ํ•ด ์ฃผ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* sterilized glass jar : ์†Œ๋…ํ•œ ์œ ๋ฆฌ๋ณ‘

* seal it tightly : ๋‹จ๋‹จํžˆ ๋ฐ€๋ด‰ํ•˜๋‹ค

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Leave it upside down for about a day, and then store it in the fridge.

๊ฑฐ๊พธ๋กœ ์„ธ์›Œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ •๋„ ๋‘์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋ƒ‰์žฅ ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* upside down : ๊ฑฐ๊พธ๋กœ

* store it in the fridge : ๋ƒ‰์žฅ๊ณ ์— ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•˜๋‹ค

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It keeps for about a month.

์œ ํšจ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์€ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ ์ •๋„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* keep for about : ์•ฝ ~ ๋™์•ˆ ์œ ์ง€๋˜๋‹ค(์‚ฌ์šฉ ๊ธฐํ•œ์ด ์•ฝ ~์ด๋‹ค)

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Unlike strawberry jam, which needs to be simmered over heat, strawberry syrup is much easier to make and just as delicious.

๋”ธ๊ธฐ์žผ์€ ๋ถˆ ์•ž์—์„œ ์กธ์ด๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ๋ฐ ๋ฐ˜ํ•ด, ๋”ธ๊ธฐ์ฒญ์€ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ง›๋„ ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* simmer over heat : ์•ฝํ•œ ๋ถˆ์— ๋“์ด๋‹ค, ์กธ์ด๋‹ค

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Dialogue Practice

A : Oh, is that strawberry syrup? Did you make it yourself?

๋”ธ๊ธฐ์ฒญ์ด๋„ค์š”? ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“œ์‹  ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”?

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* make it oneself : ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋‹ค

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B : Yes, it's really easy to make.

๋„ค, ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์ •๋ง ์‰ฌ์›Œ์š”.

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* really easy to make : ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์ •๋ง ์‰ฌ์šด

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A : If you stir it into milk, it must turn into a strawberry latte.

์šฐ์œ ์— ํƒ€ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋ฉด, ๋”ธ๊ธฐ๋ผ๋–ผ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.

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* stir it into : ~์— ์„ž์–ด ๋„ฃ๋‹ค

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B : That's right. Or with sparkling water, it becomes a strawberry ade.

๋งž์•„์š”. ํƒ„์‚ฐ์ˆ˜์— ํƒ€๋ฉด ๋”ธ๊ธฐ์—์ด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ณ ์š”

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* sparkling water : ํƒ„์‚ฐ์ˆ˜

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A : I bet it would be good with pancakes, too.

ํŒฌ์ผ€์ดํฌ๋ž‘ ๋จน์–ด๋„ ๋ง›์žˆ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.

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B : Sure. And it's delicious as a topping for plain yogurt, too.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์š”. ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ธ ์š”๊ฑฐํŠธ์— ์˜ฌ๋ ค ๋จน์–ด๋„ ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”.

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* a topping for : ~์˜ ํ† ํ•‘ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ

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์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.12.16 — Granddaughter’s Ukulele Lessons ์†๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ์šฐ์ฟจ๋ ๋ ˆ ์ˆ˜์—…

My daughter has been learning the ukulele in an after-school program for six years now.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋”ธ์€ ๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ํ›„ ์ˆ˜์—…์—์„œ ์šฐ์ฟจ๋ ๋ ˆ๋ฅผ 6๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฐฐ์›Œ์„œ

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* after-school program : ๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ํ›„ ์ˆ˜์—…

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So, she can play just about any song.

์›ฌ๋งŒํ•œ ๊ณก์€ ๋‹ค ์—ฐ์ฃผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

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* just about any : ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“ 

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She's good enough that she often takes a leadership role for talent shows at her school.

ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•˜๋Š” ํ•™์˜ˆํšŒ์—์„œ๋„ ๋ฆฌ๋” ์—ญํ• ์„ ์ข…์ข… ํ•  ๋งŒํผ ์‹ค๋ ฅ์ด ์ข‹์€ ํŽธ์ด๋‹ค.

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* take a leadership role : ๋ฆฌ๋” ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜๋‹ค

* talent show : ํ•™์˜ˆํšŒ, ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ž๋ž‘

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But once she hit puberty, she started to lose confidence in everything.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์ถ˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฒช์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋”ธ์ด ๋งค์‚ฌ์— ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์žƒ์–ด ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.

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* hit puberty : ์‚ฌ์ถ˜๊ธฐ์— ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๋‹ค

* lose confidence in : ~์— ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์žƒ๋‹ค

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After starting middle school, even going to school became hard for her.

์ค‘ํ•™์ƒ์ด ๋œ ํ›„์—๋Š” ํ•™๊ต ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๊ธฐ๋„ ํž˜๋“ค์–ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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Around that time, my mom must have thought her granddaughter needed a breakthrough.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋˜ ์ค‘ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์—„๋งˆ๋Š” ์†๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ๋ŒํŒŒ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹  ๋ชจ์–‘์ด๋‹ค.

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* around that time : ๊ทธ ๋ฌด๋ ต์—

* need a breakthrough : ๋ŒํŒŒ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค

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So, she started coming over once a week to take ukulele lessons.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ์— ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์”ฉ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ง‘์— ์˜ค์…”์„œ ์†๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ์šฐ์ฟจ๋ ๋ ˆ ๋ ˆ์Šจ์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ์‹ ๋‹ค.

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* come over once a week : ์ฃผ 1ํšŒ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜๋‹ค

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My daughter keeps notes on each lesson and teaches her grandmother with real enthusiasm.

๋”ธ์€ ๋ ˆ์Šจ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ง„๋„๋ฅผ ๋…ธํŠธ์— ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์™ธํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ป˜ ์—ด์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ•์Šต์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

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* keep notes on : ~์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ•„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•ด ๋†“๋‹ค

* with real enthusiasm : ์—ด์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ

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During their lessons, my mom listens to her granddaughter talk about her school life and shares some of her own life stories.

์ˆ˜์—…์„ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ์†๋…€์˜ ํ•™๊ต ์ƒํ™œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋„ ๋“ค์–ด ์ฃผ์‹ ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ์ธ์ƒ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ ๋‹ค.

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* one's own life stories : ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ธ์ƒ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ

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Sometimes, she also coaches me on parenting.

๊ฐ€๋” ์ž์‹์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ‚ค์›Œ์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ์ฝ”์น˜๋„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ ๋‹ค.

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* coach someone on : (~์—๊ฒŒ) ...์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ฝ”์นญํ•˜๋‹ค

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Dialogue Practice

A : Is your daughter teaching her grandmother how to play the ukulele?

๋”ธ์ด ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์—๊ฒŒ ์šฐ์ฟจ๋ ๋ ˆ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”?

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B : Yes, that's right. It's been about eight months now.

๋„ค, ๋งž์•„์š”. ๋ฒŒ์จ 8๊ฐœ์›”์งธ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

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* about eight months now : ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์•ฝ 8๊ฐœ์›”

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A : That's so sweet.

๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ธฐํŠนํ•˜๋„ค์š”.

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B : I love how it has brought them closer emotionally.

ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์™€ ์ •์„œ์ ์ธ ๊ต๊ฐ์ด ๊นŠ์–ด์ ธ์„œ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹์•„์š”.

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* bring someone closer : (~์˜) ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๋” ๊ฐ€๊น๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ๋‹ค

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A : It sounds like something they'll both remember for the rest of their lives.

๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ํ‰์ƒ ์ข‹์€ ์ถ”์–ต์ด ๋  ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.

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* remember for the rest of one's life : ํ‰์ƒํ† ๋ก ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋‹ค

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B : Sure. And my mom even pays a fee of ten thousand won per lesson!

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์š”. ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ป˜์„œ ๊ฐ•์Šต๋น„๋„ ํšŒ๋‹น ๋งŒ ์›์”ฉ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”.

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* pay a fee : ์š”๊ธˆ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•˜๋‹ค

* per lesson : ๋ ˆ์Šจ 1ํšŒ๋‹น

 

์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.12.17 — From Office Worker to Professional ์ง์žฅ์ธ์—์„œ ์ง์—…์ธ์œผ๋กœ

From Office Worker to Professional is a book that really left an impression on me.

<์ง์žฅ์ธ์—์„œ ์ง์—…์ธ์œผ๋กœ>๋Š” ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ๋ช… ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ์ฝ์€ ์ฑ…์˜ ์ œ๋ชฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* leave an impression on : ~์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๋‹ค

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After reading it, I started preparing myself to become a professional who remains valuable to society, even after leaving my company ten years from now.

์ €๋Š” ์ด ์ฑ…์„ ์ฝ๊ณ , ์ง€๊ธˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 10๋…„ ํ›„ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜์™€์„œ๋„ ์‚ฌํšŒ์— '์“ฐ์ž„' ์žˆ๋Š” '์ง์—…์ธ'์œผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๋“ค์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* start preparing oneself : ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์ค€๋น„๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋‹ค

* valuable to society : ์‚ฌํšŒ์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๋Š”

* leave one's company : ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋‹ค, ํ‡ด์‚ฌํ•˜๋‹ค

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For me, that meant studying English and Chinese.

์ €์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜์–ด ๊ณต๋ถ€์™€ ์ค‘๊ตญ์–ด ๊ณต๋ถ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Right now, I work in sales management, but I'd like to transition into a role in international business.

ํ˜„์žฌ ์ €๋Š” ์˜์—… ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์ง๋ฌด๋กœ ์ผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ•ด์™ธ ์‚ฌ์—…์œผ๋กœ ์ง๋ฌด ์ „ํ™˜์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* sales management : ์˜์—… ๊ด€๋ฆฌ

* transition into a role : ์—ญํ• ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋‹ค

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So, I listen to EBS radio's English and Chinese programs every day. I study whenever I can.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋งค์ผ EBS ๋ผ๋””์˜ค์˜ ์˜์–ด์™€ ์ค‘๊ตญ์–ด ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* whenever one can : ์žํˆฌ๋ฆฌ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์—, ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค

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That includes before work, during my lunch break, and after I get home.

์ถœ๊ทผ ์ „, ์ ์‹ฌ ์‹œ๊ฐ„, ํ‡ด๊ทผ ํ›„ ์žํˆฌ๋ฆฌ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* during one's lunch break : (๊ทผ๋ฌด์ผ์˜) ์ ์‹ฌ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์—

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My ultimate goal is to completely master both languages.

์ €์˜ ์ตœ์ข… ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ๋‘ ์–ธ์–ด๋ฅผ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* ultimate goal : ์ตœ์ข… ๋ชฉํ‘œ

* completely master : ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ†ต๋‹ฌํ•˜๋‹ค

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I want to build a career that isn't tied down to a company, expand my professional reach with strong language skills, and eventually achieve financial freedom.

์ง์žฅ์— ์–ฝ๋งค์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด๋ฅผ ์Œ“์•„, ํƒ„ํƒ„ํ•œ ์–ธ์–ด ์Šคํ‚ฌ๋กœ ์ง์—… ์˜์—ญ์„ ๋„“ํ˜€ ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์ž์œ ๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* build a career : ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด๋ฅผ ์Œ“๋‹ค

* tied down to : ~์— ์–ฝ๋งค์ธ

* expand one's professional reach : ์ง์—… ์˜์—ญ์„ ๋„“ํžˆ๋‹ค

* achieve financial freedom : ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์ž์œ ๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๋‹ค

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Dialogue Practice

A : You're really putting a lot of effort into your language studies.

์–ดํ•™ ๊ณต๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์ •๋ง ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ํ•˜์‹œ๋„ค์š”.

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* put a lot of effort into : ~์— ๋งŽ์€ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๋“ค์ด๋‹ค

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B : Yes, I'm focusing all my energy on English and Chinese.

๋„ค. ์˜์–ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์ค‘๊ตญ์–ด์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

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* focus all one's energy on : ~์— ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋‹ค

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A : Is there a specific goal that you have in mind?

์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ๋Š” ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?

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* a specific goal : ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋ชฉํ‘œ

* have in mind : ์—ผ๋‘์— ๋‘๋‹ค, ๊ณ ๋ ค ์ค‘์ด๋‹ค

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B : I want to move into an international business position.

ํ•ด์™ธ ์‚ฌ์—… ์ง๋ฌด๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.

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A : Oh, I see.

์•„, ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ตฐ์š”.

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B : Ultimately, I'd like to continue my career even after I leave my company.

๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ํ‡ด์‚ฌ ํ›„์—๋„ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด๋ฅผ ์ด์–ด ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์„œ์š”.

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* leave one's company : ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋– ๋‚˜๋‹ค, ํ‡ด์‚ฌํ•˜๋‹ค

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์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.12.18 — Traveling Abroad with My Daughter ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ ์žฅ์• ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋”ธ๊ณผ์˜ ํ•ด์™ธ์—ฌํ–‰

I'm a mom raising two daughters one year apart.

์—ฐ๋…„์ƒ ๋‘ ๋”ธ์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์—„๋งˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* one year apart : 1๋…„ ํ„ฐ์šธ์˜

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My older daughter, who's nine, has a developmental disability and has the mental capacity of about a three-year-old.

์•„ํ™‰ ์‚ด์ธ ์ฒซ์งธ ๋”ธ์€ ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ ์žฅ์• ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด ์ง€๋Šฅ์ด ์„ธ ์‚ด ์ •๋„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* have a developmental disability : ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ ์žฅ์• ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค

* the mental capacity of : ~์˜ ์ง€๋Šฅ

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She's often afraid of trying new things.

์ฒซ์งธ ๋”ธ์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ•  ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* afraid of trying new things : ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ•˜๋Š”

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So, whenever we traveled abroad before, I would only take my younger daughter with me.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ „์— ํ•ด์™ธ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๊ฐˆ ๋•Œ๋ฉด ๋‘˜์งธ๋งŒ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๊ณค ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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But one day, I started to think about going on a trip all together.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋˜ ์ค‘ ๋ฌธ๋“ ๋‹ค ๊ฐ™์ด ํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๋„์ „ํ•ด ๋ณผ๊นŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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I thought a relaxing vacation spot would be best, so we ended up choosing Cebu in the Philippines.

ํœด์–‘์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์–ด์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•„๋ฆฌํ•€ ์„ธ๋ถ€๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* relaxing vacation spot : ์—ฌ์œ ๋กœ์šด ํœด์–‘์ง€

* end up choosing : ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๋‹ค

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Because of her sensitive nature, my older daughter stayed wide awake for the entire four-hour red-eye flight.

์˜ˆ๋ฏผํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ ํƒ“์—, ์ฒซ์งธ ์•„์ด๋Š” ๋ฐค ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ๋„ ๋œฌ๋ˆˆ์œผ๋กœ 4์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ฒ„ํ‹ฐ๋ฉฐ ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* sensitive nature : ์˜ˆ๋ฏผํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ

* stay wide awake : ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๊นจ์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค

* red-eye flight : ๋ฐค ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ

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Even so, I was grateful that she made it through the whole experience.

๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ž˜ ํ•ด๋‚ธ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* make it through : ๊ฒฌ๋ŽŒ ๋‚ด๋‹ค

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Kids really are stronger than we think.

์—ญ์‹œ ์• ๋“ค์€ ์–ด๋ฅธ๋“ค์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฐ•ํ•œ๊ฐ€ ๋ด์š”.

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I hope to give her many more chances to experience new things.

์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์•„์ด์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋งŽ์ด ์‹œ์ผœ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* chance to experience new things : ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ

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๐Ÿ“ Dialogue Practice

A : How was your family trip?

๊ฐ€์กฑ ์—ฌํ–‰ ์–ด๋– ์…จ์–ด์š”?

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B : It was my older daughter's first time traveling abroad.

์ฒซ์งธ ๋”ธ์ด ์ฒ˜์Œ ๊ฐ€๋ณด๋Š” ํ•ด์™ธ์—ฌํ–‰์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

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* first time traveling abroad : ์ฒซ ํ•ด์™ธ์—ฌํ–‰

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A : Did she adjust okay?

์ž˜ ์ ์‘ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”?

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* adjust okay : ๋ฌด๋‚œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ ์‘ํ•˜๋‹ค

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B : Yes, I was a bit worried, but she had a pretty good time.

๋„ค, ์ข€ ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ๋†€๋”๋ผ๊ณ ์š”.

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* have a pretty good time : ์ œ๋ฒ• ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ์ง€๋‚ด๋‹ค

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A : That's great to hear.

๋‹คํ–‰์ด๋„ค์š”.

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B : We didn't really go sightseeing. We just spent every day relaxing at the resort pool.

ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹ˆ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ฆฌ์กฐํŠธ ์ˆ˜์˜์žฅ์—์„œ ๋งค์ผ ์‰ฌ๋ฉด์„œ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ์–ด์š”.

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* go sightseeing : ๊ด€๊ด‘์„ ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

* spend every day : ๋งค์ผ์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๋‹ค

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์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.12.19 — Baking a Birthday Cake ์ƒ์ผ ์ผ€์ดํฌ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ

I am a third grader who studies "์ž…ํŠธ์˜" with my mom.

๋‚˜๋Š” ์—„๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ <์ž…ํŠธ์˜>์„ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๋Š” 3ํ•™๋…„ ์•„์ด๋‹ค.

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Last December, for my mom's birthday, my dad and I made a strawberry whipped cream cake together.

์ž‘๋…„ 12์›” ์—„๋งˆ ์ƒ์‹  ๋•Œ, ๋‚˜๋Š” ์•„๋น ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋”ธ๊ธฐ ์ƒํฌ๋ฆผ ์ผ€์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.

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* strawberry whipped cream cake : ๋”ธ๊ธฐ ์ƒํฌ๋ฆผ ์ผ€์ดํฌ

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When we first told her we were going to bake her a cake, she did not seem all that excited.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฒ˜์Œ์— ์ผ€์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ค€๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ์—„๋งˆ๋Š” ์‹œํฐ๋‘ฅํ•œ ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ๋ณด์ด์…จ๋‹ค.

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* not seem all that excited : ์‹œํฐ๋‘ฅํ•˜๋‹ค

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But once she got a taste of the finished cake, she said it was the best she had ever had.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ง‰์ƒ ์™„์„ฑ๋œ ์ผ€์ดํฌ ๋ง›์„ ๋ณด์‹œ๊ณ ๋Š”, ์ด์ œ๊ป ๋จน์–ด ๋ณธ ์ผ€์ดํฌ ์ค‘ ์ตœ๊ณ ๋ผ๋ฉฐ

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* get a taste of : ~์„ ๋ง›๋ณด๋‹ค

* the best one has ever had : ๋จน์–ด ๋ณธ ๊ฒƒ ์ค‘ ์ตœ๊ณ 

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She was really touched.

๋ฌด์ฒ™ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉํ•˜์…จ๋‹ค.

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* be really touched : ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ๋™๋ฐ›๋‹ค

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For my own birthday in February, our family decided not to buy a cake but to bake our own banana brownie cake instead.

์ด๋ฒˆ 2์›”์— ๋‚ด ์ƒ์ผ ๋•Œ๋„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์€ ์ผ€์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹  ๋ฐ”๋‚˜๋‚˜ ๋ธŒ๋ผ์šฐ๋‹ˆ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.

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* decide not to : ~ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•˜๋‹ค

* bake one's own : ์ง์ ‘ ๊ตฝ๋‹ค

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Making it ourselves made the day feel even more special.

์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“  ์ผ€์ดํฌ ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ƒ์ผ์ด ๋” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์กŒ๋‹ค.

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* make it oneself : ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋‹ค

* feel even more special : ๋”์šฑ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์ง€๋‹ค

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We decided we'll always make our own cakes for birthdays from now on.

์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์€ ์ƒ์ผ ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ผ€์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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* from now on : ์•ž์œผ๋กœ, ์ง€๊ธˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ

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I'm already looking forward to my dad's turn next.

๋‹ค์Œ ์ฐจ๋ก€์ธ ์•„๋น  ์ƒ์‹ ์ด ๋ฒŒ์จ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค.

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* look forward to : ~์ด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋˜๋‹ค

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Dialogue Practice

A : That birthday cake looks beautiful!

์ƒ์ผ ์ผ€์ดํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์˜ˆ์˜๋„ค์š”!

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B : My husband and daughter made it from scratch at home.

์•„์ด์™€ ๋‚จํŽธ์ด ์ง‘์—์„œ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

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* make it from scratch : ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋‹ค

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A : Really? How did they make it look so nice?

์ •๋ง์ด์š”? ์–ด์ฉœ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์˜ˆ์˜๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”?

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B : I know, right? I could hardly believe it myself.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ฒŒ์š”. ์ €๋„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์‹ ๊ธฐํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

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* I know, right? : ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€? ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ฒŒ.

* can hardly believe it : ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•˜๋‹ค, ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ ํž˜๋“ค๋‹ค

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A : Did it taste okay, too?

๋ง›๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•˜์–ด์š”?

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* taste okay : ๋ง›์ด ๊ดœ์ฐฎ๋‹ค

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B : Honestly, it was delicious. Probably because of all the care they put into it.

์ •์„ฑ์ด ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ์ง€, ์†”์งํžˆ ์ •๋ง ๋ง›์žˆ๋”๋ผ๊ณ ์š”.

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* all the care someone put into : (~๊ฐ€) ใƒปใƒปใƒป์— ๋‹ด์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ •์„ฑ