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Hi, everybody.
My name's Esther.
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And in this video, I want to talk about a very
important vocabulary word for all Koreans to know,
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okay. And that word is ‘monsoon season’.
What is ‘monsoon season’?
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Well, every summer many foreigners come and
they're surprised by how much rain there is,
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right in the summer in Korea for about one month,
usually in July,
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there's a lot of rain, okay.
And in English we call that the ‘monsoon season’.
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So it's very important for
Koreans to have a good umbrella.
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Maybe some rain boots, right?
But also it can cause some
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problems for some businesses and homes if
there's too much rain and flooding, right?
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So if you see a foreigner, and
they ask about summer in Korea,
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it's very important that you remember that
you tell them about monsoon season, okay?
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So let's look on the board and
look at this example sentence.
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“The monsoon season in Korea
begins in summer.” Right?
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I just talked about that again.
“The monsoon…” Let's pronounce it together.
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‘monsoon’
‘monsoon’
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So “The monsoon season in Korea begins in summer.”
And as we said, the monsoon season lasts for
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about one month,
and there's lots
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of rain during the monsoon season.
Okay, let's look at some more examples together.
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Let's look at these examples.
“It's very humid during the monsoon season.”
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“It's very humid during the monsoon season.”
“The monsoon season is coming.”
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“The monsoon season is coming.”
“I need to buy a new umbrella for
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the monsoon season.”
“I need to buy a new
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umbrella for the monsoon season.”
Okay so in this video we learned
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about the vocabulary word ‘monsoon season’.
Remember, it's a time in Korea when there's a
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lot of rain and it's very hot and sticky, right?
Now, in Southern California where I'm from,
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there is no monsoon season.
We get a little bit of rain in the
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winter time which is very different from Korea.
But again, nothing like the rain we see here.
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Okay so that is something that
I'm still trying to get used to.
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Okay, so again, the word we
learned is ‘monsoon season’.
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Don't forget it and see you next time.
Bye.
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