나물 등을 캐다 영어로 Forage Greens
(0701 Foraging with Grandma: It Means to the World to Me)
Power Warm-up
Travis and his grandmother go foraging for wild plants together. It’s his first time and he’s excited to learn from his grandmother. She’s also happy that he’s so interested
Kristen: We’re starting this month, the second half.
Cameron: Yes, we’re starting the second.
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Cameron: Oh, totally. Okay. It’s so great having the show with the book.
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Cameron: Yum. Well, I mean, there are explanations both in English and Korean. So you kind of get, if you missed it in the English section, you can pick it up in the Korean section.
Kristen: Right. So at least you have a good idea of what we’re talking about.
Cameron: Yes.
Power Expressions
Kristen: So today is a food dialogue day. Okay. And this month we have a new topic.
Cameron: Oh, foraging with Grandma.
Kristen: Okay, so this word foraging may be a new word for you. To forage, F-O-R-A-G-E. . What does this word mean?
Cameron: This means to go out into nature, to go outside and find for (나물 등을 캐다, 채집하다)
Kristen: Yeah, and let me tell you, this is an important word for Korean people because a lot of our vegetables are from foraged vegetables in the mountains.
Cameron: It really is. All of the green leaves, 고사리 and the mushroom.
Kristen: Mushrooms, all of that. Yeah.
Cameron: They’re forged. I even see like older women by the 천. I’m like walking and they’re like picking up.
Kristen: They’re foraging. We are a foraging nation.
Cameron: Okay.
Kristen: This is why we survived, you know, throughout history. Okay. So it means the world to me. If something means the world to you, this is one of our expressions.
Cameron: it means everything to me. It is so important to me. So valuable to me.
Kristen: A matter of life and death?
Cameron: It’s very important. Wow. You could literally die if you do it.
Kristen: Wrong with that serious okay without a doubt g-o-u-b-t.
Cameron: This is completely certain. You are 100% sure.
Kristen: So no doubt.
Cameron: No doubts.
Kristen: Let’s go ahead and listen to our first Foraging with Grandma dialogue.
Power Dialog
Grandma: I’m happy that you’re interested in foraging. It means the world to me.
Travis: I think it’s an important skill that’s being lost in the modern world.
Grandma: Yes, everything is right there on the shelves now. But it wasn’t like that when I was a girl. My family was very poor, and we lived in the country.
Travis: So was foraging a matter of life and death for you?
Grandma: I wouldn’t say that, but it was without a doubt important to know how to do.
Travis: Then let’s get started.
Kristen: Great. So it’s like a tender, you know, tender time with grandma, you know, the grandson. I’m happy that you’re interested in foraging. It means the world to me. Okay. So again, to forage, foraging means to go out into the nature and pick vegetables you know, greens, mushrooms.
Cameron: Which I think is so cool. I could not do that. Because there’s so many things like, it could be poisonous, right? Like, you know, so apparently there is, you know, like, 부추 right? Chives, I think?
Kristen: Yeah, tribes, yeah.
Cameron: There is some kind of grass that apparently looks really close to it that.
Kristen: It’s poisonous?.
Cameron: Like, kills you in like a very quick amount of time. And you have to look at the tip. It’s like one of them is round and one of them is pointed.
Kristen: Yeah.
Cameron: And apparently they were like back in the day when people had to go out and find the 부추
Kristen: Aww.
Cameron: People doing this. Like, I would do that. Mushrooms? I couldn’t tell you what is a good mushroom.
Kristen: Forget it. Forget it.
Cameron: Right?
Kristen: Yes. But because we’ve been doing it for hundreds of years in Korea, now it’s very safe. So, I mean, our culture, the Korean culture, a lot of the food culture is based on foraging.
Cameron: It’s so true. All the 나물?
Kristen: Good. Absolutely. Yeah, okay. It means the world to me.
Cameron: So it means the world to me means it is so important to me or it is so valuable to me. And here it’s about the grandma kind of passing down the tradition.
Kristen: Yes.
Cameron: Passing down what she learned as a child. So doing this thing together makes her feel so good.
Kristen: Good yes that’s right. It has a lot of meaning and significance for her. Right? So Travis says I think it’s an important skill that’s being lost in the modern world. Yeah because I mean who goes to the mountains and forges for stuff, you know you go to the local groceries and now we don’t even go to the markets, we buy everything online.
Cameron: Oh, yeah. I don’t even you know how like even not even foraging like housewife, especially housewives could like go and like get the good vegetable. Or like be able to see which is the good fish and which is the bad fish. I can’t. I don’t know that. Like to me, all the fish look the same. All of the watermelons look the same. Being able to judge if it’s a good one or not.
Kristen: That’s right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So the idea of those sort of kind of farmer’s market, like the five-day market, it’s passing.
Cameron: Oh yeah.
Kristen: Who’s gonna go?
Cameron: Whatever comes to my door is what I eat.
Kristen: What does grandma say?
Cameron: Yes, everything is right there on the shelves now, but it wasn’t like that when I was a little girl. My family was very poor, and we lived in the country.
Kristen: So it’s so true because I hear stories from my mom when, you know, it was very tough. Many people were poor, but Korea always had plenty of food, had not plenty, but didn’t die of hunger because they were foraging.
Cameron: Yeah. Yeah. A lot of those vegetables.
Kristen: Sure. Okay. Travis says, so was forging a matter of life and death for you?
Cameron: Oh, great expression here. A matter of life and death.
Kristen: Yes, and let me just point out there is a big typo because there should be an A. It says here F-O-R-G-I-N-G, but it should be F-O-R-A-G-I-N-G. Sorry about that.
Cameron: Ah, yes. Uh-huh. Yeah, so forging (연금) is when you’re like making something out of metal. Yeah. Foraging (채집) is when you’re finding food out in nature. That’s right. So this is a matter of life and death, which means it is something so important that if you do not do it well, you could die.
Kristen: Yeah, that’s right.
Cameron: So when you’re poor, when you don’t have, you know… Food.
Kristen: Huh?
Cameron: And you have to go out into the forest and find your food. It is that important. Like you don’t go home until you found your food.
Kristen: Yes. So, yeah, true, you’re not a soldier in war where it’s really a matter of life and death. But being poor at that time with no food around, it was a matter of your life and your death.
Cameron: Yeah, if you didn’t find mushrooms, it’s not like, Oh, didn’t find mushrooms. Guess we’ll go home and have a soda. It’s like, No, you stayed out until you find the mushrooms and all your food.
Kristen: Or no.
Cameron: Mm-hmm. Uh…
Kristen: So if something is a matter of life and death, it means it’s that much important.
Cameron: Yeah, this will decide, do you live, do you die?
Kristen: Yeah. Okay. Grandma says, I wouldn’t say that, but it was without a doubt important to know how to do. So grandma says in reply, I wouldn’t say that, but. So what is she really saying?
Cameron: So she’s saying it wasn’t to that extent. It wasn’t that amount. So it’s not life or death because that life or death is very extreme. So grandma saying it wasn’t that extreme. But she is saying she says it’s without a doubt important to know how to do. She’s saying, OK, it wasn’t life or death, you know, but it was still very important.
Kristen: That’s right. That’s right. Okay. So without a doubt, it’s basically there are no doubts. Definitely, Certainly. Absolutely. So, yes, it wasn’t like you’re going to die, but it was very important. Yeah. Okay. And then Travis says…
Cameron: Then let’s get started.
Kristen: So foraging, something that we don’t do in modern times, but if our ancestors didn’t do it, we wouldn’t have the variety of food.
Cameron: Well, we wouldn’t be here.
Kristen: We wouldn’t be here.
Cameron: Ha ha ha ha!
Kristen: Because it was a matter of life and death. Okay, let’s go ahead and listen to that one more time.
Power Dialog
Grandma: I’m happy that you’re interested in foraging. It means the world to me.
Travis: I think it’s an important skill that’s being lost in the modern world.
Grandma: Yes, everything is right there on the shelves now. But it wasn’t like that when I was a girl. My family was very poor, and we lived in the country.
Travis: So was foraging a matter of life and death for you?
Grandma: I wouldn’t say that, but it was without a doubt important to know how to do.
Travis: Then let’s get started.
Power Note
Kristen: Okay, it’s time for Power Note. We’re on pages 10 and 11 of our PE textbook.
1. It menas the world to me: –에게 큰 의미가 있다. 중요하다.
The first expression is, it means the world to me. And oftentimes people emphasize the world. The world. World to me. Yes. And depending on how important, like if it’s really, really, really important, you say, it means the WORLD…to me. Okay, you emphasize that. Which means it’s very important to you. It’s very meaningful to you. Significant.
1)
A: I got here as fast as I could. Is Grandpa okay?
B: He’s very sick. It means the world to him that you came to visit.
Kristen: That’s right.
Cameron: It’s important. He’s glad that you came to visit. It shows it’s an expression of love.
Kristen: Right, it has great meaning, your visit.
2) It means the world to me that you came to see my concert.
Yeah. Yeah, right. So it’s kind of like you weren’t expecting your friends to come, but you had like one friend who lives maybe two hours away. And they come to your concert. It’s like, that’s really special.
Cameron: It’s like, oh my gosh, thank you for taking time and effort to come see something that I’m doing.
Kristen: Yeah. So basically you’re saying it means a lot, a lot to me.
Cameron: Mm-hmm.
Kristen: Let’s give one more example.
Cameron: Well, so we’ve talked about actions meaning the world to someone. You could say, for example, your children could mean the world to you.
Kristen: Oh, that’s a gift.
Cameron: They’re just so special for you. They’re like, they’re so important. Kind of like you would do anything for them. Definitely.
Kristen: That is true. I recently rewatched the movie Bad Moms.
Cameron: Yes, I’ve seen it.
Kristen: I’m glad that.
Cameron: Uh-huh.
Kristen: It is so funny. And I think all moms can relate. I mean, they mean the world to us, but they can be a big pain in the butt.
Cameron: Oh.
Kristen: It could be very hard. Okay.
2. a matter of life and death: 사활이 걸린 문제, 아주 중요한 문제
If something is a matter of life and death, it means that it’s extremely serious. Yes. Like you could literally die.
Cameron: Okay.
1)
A: As a nurse, is your job stressful?
B: Yes, because a lot of the decisions I make are a matter of life and death.
At the hospital? That’s so true. I can never be a nurse or a doctor.
Kristen: Are you kidding me?
Cameron: I’m sleepy, so I make the wrong decision and then someone loses a leg.
Kristen: Well…
Cameron: I could not live with that.
Kristen: I know. I mean, it does happen.
Cameron: Yeah.
Kristen: I mean, we’re human. We’re not like robots.
Cameron: Yeah, I mean, I understand why it happens. But, like, goodness, that’s a lot of responsibility to do.
Kristen: It sure is, a lot of pressure.
2) This top secret project is a matter of life and death, so we can’t make mistakes
Cameron: Yeah, top secret project. If you aren’t careful, like, you know, someone could die.
Kristen: Maybe like it’s a nuclear thing. And it’s very delicate, like if you drop it,
Cameron: Yeah.
Kristen: Or if the temperature isn’t right, it could be life, a matter of life and death.
Cameron: Yes.
Kristen: Now, we have these sort of literal situations, like real life and death situations. Could we possibly use this figuratively, not literally?
Cameron: Yes. If we wanted to make a funny example,
Kristen: Okay, let’s do it.
Cameron: Like, you know, like when there’s a fashion problem.
Kristen: Okay.
Cameron: It’s like a celebrity has to go on the red carpet.
Cameron: And their dress, you know, something rips on their dress, something breaks on their dress. I need a new dress. This is a matter of life and death.
Kristen: All right.
Cameron: It’s not really, but if you’re going to be very dramatic, or it could be the opposite. The celebrity is crying because their outfit’s bad. Someone could say, oh my gosh, it’s not a matter of life and death.
Kristen: Right, right. So in those cases, it’s really being very overly dramatic.
Cameron: Yeah.
Kristen: But to that person and maybe that actress’s career, she’s getting her first spotlight. So maybe it is a matter of life and death in terms of her career.
Cameron: Right, yeah. So, yeah, it’s the life and death of the career. that’s right. Of the brand or the reputation.
Kristen: right. Okay. So, of course, for us, nothing is a matter of life and death.
Cameron: I don’t know. I mean, there are things we care about, but I think we do not put too much importance on things unnecessarily. True. Very true.
3. Without a doubt: 확실히, 의심할 여지 없이
Kristen: Without a doubt means absolutely anything.
Cameron: Yeah. Certainly. Definitely.
Kristen: Okay.
1)
A: This picture proves without a doubt the existence of UFOs.
B: It’s just a picture of a street lamp on a dark night.
Kristen: Okay. Yeah. Some people are very convinced that UFOs exist without a doubt.
Cameron: Without a doubt.
Kristen: Definitely.
Cameron: It exists.
2) I can say without a doubt that I saw Jeff at the movie theater last night.
Hmm? Are you sure?
Cameron: I can say without a doubt that I saw him.
Kristen: maybe it just kind of looks like him.
Cameron: It was him.
Kristen: How do you know?
Cameron: Unless he has a twin, we don’t know about it.
Kristen: Really? You’re that sure?
Cameron: I’m that sure. I looked him in the eye.
Kristen: You did? Oh, wow. Okay, so sometimes you can use this expression to say, without a doubt, this is the best Italian pizza I’ve ever had.
Cameron: Certainly. Yeah. 100%. Yeah.
Kristen: Cannot argue. Nope.
Cameron: Definitely is. Okay.
4. I would’t say that, but: –라고는 말 못하지만..
Kristen: Power pattern. I wouldn’t say that, but… Yeah.
Cameron: I wouldn’t go that far. Yeah. It’s not that extreme, but…
Kristen: But, that’s right
1) I wouldn’t say that, but you should definitely be careful around that dog.
Cameron: He’s not dangerous. Yeah. But…
Kristen: It’s not a bite, but…
2) I wouldn’t say that. However, I am an excellent chess player. I mean, I’m not the world’s best chess player.
Kristen: Right, I’m not a genius.
Cameron: Yeah. Yeah. I’m not a grandmaster. Uh-huh.
Kristen: That’s right.
Cameron: I’m pretty good.
Kristen: Okay. Foraging is a very important word to know, everyone, because all throughout this month on Mondays, we’re going to have, you know, a dialogue regarding foraging with the grandson. So do check out the definition on page 12. And let’s thank our sponsors.
5. Foraging: 채집
Foraging is the practice of collecting uncultivated plants, mushrooms, nuts, and seeds from forests or fields for use as food or medicine.
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