Power Warm-up: Becoming a Morning Person: I’m Willing to Try Anything: 아침형 인간 되기. 뭐든 시도해볼 거야.
Randy is always tired. His problem is that he can’t fall asleep until very late at night. When he wakes up for work, he’s still very tired. Kristina offers to help him.
Power Expressions
Kristen: Thank you so much for joining us. We’re so happy to have you. And I feel like this is a great starter question. Are you a morning person? Because that’s our topic for this month.
Cameron: Aha.
Kristen: Becoming a morning person. So, I know you’re a morning person. You get up really early, don’t you? What time?
Cameron: So it depends. Lately, I’ve been trying to just get up by six. But Simba usually gets me up around five. My dog, Simba, around five, five thirty.
Kristen: Oh my gosh.
Cameron: He’s barking and he needs to go outside.
Kristen: Really? yeah.
Cameron: But are you, you’re not a morning person.
Kristen: Okay, listen, here’s my situation. I have always been a morning person, meaning I need to, I can’t stay up late. I get sleepy. But then ever since, you know, my son became a teenager, my sleep pattern has really just gone off a cliff. So I’m going to bed at one. The earliest is midnight. You know, I just can’t seem to get to bed before then. So I’ve become kind of not a morning person and I want to be.
Cameron: I don’t know. I think I find it hard to be a morning person in Korea.
Kristen: Yeah.
Cameron: I feel like activities in Korea tend to go later. For example, TV shows.
Kristen: Uh-huh.
Cameron: A show will start at like 10:30, 11 o’clock at night.
Kristen: There are shows like that, yes.
Cameron: Big famous shows that start that late. That’s sleeping time.
Kristen: Well, I think that in Korea, too, is that you finish work, by the time you get home, you have dinner, it’s already 8 o’clock, 9 o’clock. So, you know, by that time, you want some time to yourself. And then it easily goes to midnight. Right. And then 1, 2. Yeah.
Cameron: Fair enough. I mean, I remember my mom and dad coming home at like five.
Kristen: Yeah.
Cameron: That’s unthinkable in Korea.
Kristen: Unthinkable
Kristen: Alright, so here, becoming a morning person, because they do say, you know, going to bed early, rising early is a good thing. I’m willing to try anything. So, we’re talking about that this month. Here, the expressions, have a hard time.
Cameron: You’re struggling, you’re having difficulty doing something.
Kristen: Right. And if you are an early bird…
Cameron: This is two meanings, but here we’re just going to be talking about someone who wakes up early, someone who does an activity very early.
Kristen: Okay, settle into something.
Cameron: This means you’re becoming comfortable in something. You’re getting used to it.
Kristen: Okay, very good. Let’s go ahead and listen to our first dialogue on becoming a morning person.
Power Dialog
Kristina: Randy, why do you always look so tired?
Randy: I have a hard time falling asleep at night, so I never get more than five hours of sleep.
Kristina: You need to change your habits so you can become an early bird instead of a night owl.
Randy: I guess there are some things I can do differently that will help.
Kristina: I can help you. I settled into a routine that ensures I wake up refreshed.
Randy: I’m willing to try anything but sleeping pills.
Kristen: Okay, so Kristina begins by saying, Randy, why do you always look so tired? And Randy says, I have a hard time falling asleep at night, so I never get more than five hours of sleep. Now, isn’t this everyone’s dilemma? A lot of people.
Cameron: I don’t know anyone who gets the right amount of sleep.
Kristen: Yeah, and a lot of people are having a hard time falling asleep.
Kristen: So if you have a hard time doing something,
Cameron: You’re having difficulty. You cannot do it easily. So you usually follow this with an I-N-G verb form. So have a hard time falling asleep. Have a hard time eating spinach. It’s just difficult for you to eat spinach. Yeah.
Kristen: Or have a hard time driving at night.
Cameron: Yeah, your eyesight isn’t good.
Kristina: Yeah.
Cameron: Have a hard time staying awake in class.
Kristen: Yeah.
Cameron: Because the teacher’s boring, so you fall asleep.
Kristina: That’s right.
Kristen: Or have a hard time with rude people.
Cameron: Oh yeah, rude people are the worst.
Kristen: I have zero tolerance for people who are just rude and have no manners.
Cameron: Uh-huh. Oh, totally. I get it.
Kristen: I really…
Cameron: Like, not when it’s a cultural thing. Like, obviously sometimes, like, Americans have different cultural expectations than Koreans. That sometimes, you know, can be rude depending on, you know.
Kristen: Well, sure.
Cameron: Like that’s one thing.
Kristen: Yeah.
Cameron: I understand that. Yeah. But like if, when I’m talking to an American. As an American myself. Yes. And they’re rude to me. I, like, it’s so frustrating.
Kristen: It’s incredibly hard. Totally.
Kristen: Okay, so do you have a hard time falling asleep? Just quickly?
Cameron: Yes, I do actually. I can’t turn off my brain.
Kristen: Oh yeah, because your brain is always going.
Cameron: The brain is always going. It sure is. It’s just going in a circle, though. It’s not going in a direction.
Kristen: What does Kristina say?
Cameron: You need to change your habits so you can become an early bird instead of a night owl.
Kristen: Okay, to change your habits. Is it possible, if you are a night owl, to become an early bird? I don’t know. Okay?
Cameron: I guess it’s possible.
Kristen: So these are two opposites, as you can see.
Cameron: Yeah.
Kristen: Early bird is…
Cameron: So early bird is someone who wakes up early. Now this has a second meaning that I think many Koreans will be familiar with. So things like early bird tickets whenever there is like a big concert or.
Kristen: Ah!
Cameron: At an event, there are early bird tickets. So for example, like a jazz festival, sometimes they don’t announce who the singers are gonna be.
Kristen: Ah.
Cameron: But they go ahead and put the tickets out. Those are called like the early bird tickets and you usually get them for cheaper. Cheaper, yeah. ‘Cause you don’t know who is gonna be there.
Kristen: Right, right. Okay. Well.
Cameron: But here, it’s talking about someone who wakes up early in the morning.
Kristen: That’s right. And the opposite of that is a night owl. Yeah. Because, you know, we know that night owls are nocturnal (야행성의).
Cameron: Yeah.
Kristen: Meaning they hunt at night.
Cameron: Yes.
Kristen: So, you are an early bird.
Cameron: I’m an early bird. Okay. And you have become a night owl.
Kristen: Oh, kind of, but like, I don’t like it.
Cameron: Yeah, so I think that is the difference. I don’t like it. So both early bird and night owl means that you are awake and active at those times and you like it or it feels natural. So if you’re always staying up late but you hate it, it doesn’t mean that you’re a night owl. Right? It’s more like I’m a night owl. I stay up late because my body naturally wants to stay up late.
Kristen: Exactly. So I feel I will identify as an early bird…
Cameron: Uh-huh.
Kristen: Not a night owl. But my pattern, my lifestyle pattern has made me into a night owl. And I have to change it. I’m working on it. Okay. All right. Randy, what does he say?
Cameron: I guess there are some things I can do differently that will help.
Kristen: Okay, so Randy’s like, oh, okay, maybe I should try something different. And Kristina says, I can help you. I settled into a routine that ensures I wake up refreshed. Okay, so this whole month, Kristina is going to help Randy, okay, settle into a routine. So if you settle into something.
Cameron: So settle into means to become used to or become comfortable with. And you can do this with like a home. When you settle into a home, it means like all of your furniture and everything is in place. And you’re living comfortably in the home. But when you settle into a routine, it means you’re used to the routine. It’s not new to you. You can perform the routine comfortably. Okay. Yeah.
Kristen: All right, so if you settle into married life, for example, you just got married. And this is kind of a new lifestyle for you. Not a lifestyle, but it’s like a new lifestyle.
Cameron: I mean, yeah, it’s a new lifestyle. Living together is quite different than living alone.
Kristen: Right. Or you settled into your new home, your new apartment.
Cameron: Or settled into your new job.
Kristina: Yes.
Cameron: It doesn’t have to just be living. It can be work.
Kristen: And Randy says, I’m willing to try anything but sleeping pills. Okay. I’m willing to.
Cameron: I’m Willing to.
Kristen: This is great.
Cameron: I would do something. I can do it if it’s suggested to me. I have nothing against it.
Kristen: Right. So when you say I’m willing, it gives you the idea that no one is forcing you or putting pressure on you. You absolutely say, oh, yes, I’m open to the idea. Right.
Cameron: You’re open to it. It’s a little different from I want to. So I want to try everything means you try everything.
Kristen: That’s right.
Cameron: But if I’m willing to try anything, means I will try different things until I find something that works.
Kristen: That’s it. That’s it. All right. Let’s go ahead and listen to that one more time.
Power Dialog
Kristina: Randy, why do you always look so tired?
Randy: I have a hard time falling asleep at night, so I never get more than five hours of sleep.
Kristina: You need to change your habits so you can become an early bird instead of a night owl.
Randy: I guess there are some things I can do differently that will help.
Kristina: I can help you. I settled into a routine that ensures I wake up refreshed.
Randy: I’m willing to try anything but sleeping pills.
Power Note
1. Have a hard time with – (–ing): 힘든 시간을 보내다. 어려움을 겪다
Kristen: Okay, it’s time for Power Note. Let’s do a quick review. Have a hard time with something means to struggle, to have difficulty with something? Okay.
1)
A: How are you doing at your new job?
B: I’m having a hard time learning the accounting software.
Kristen: When you get a new job, of course you’re having a hard time with many things.
Cameron: Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Kristen: New people, new responsibilities, you know.
Cameron: It’s true. But I feel like it’s even worse when, like, I guess you get older. I think when you’re young and you get a new job and you can do anything, it’s like, oh, they’re young. They’re not inexperienced. But, like, imagine, like, you’re older. You have experience. But now the industry has changed. The software is different. And you’ve got to learn something completely new.
Kristen: Oh, for sure.
Cameron: It’s so much different. Like having a hard time at that stage in your life. Oh, I don’t know if I could deal with it.
Kristen: Well, you know, I mean, I mentioned again, I mean, the movie came up again, but the intern, Robert De Niro…
Cameron: Yeah, Ann Hathaway. Yeah.
Kristen: Even though he’s an intern, he’s having a hard time with technology.
Cameron: Yeah, he’s like in his in the movies like in his 60s. Right. Right. I mean, it’s true. I can just imagine because the joke is always like my parents’ age. They’re in their 60s now. They can’t use computers that well.
Kristen: It’s just not their generation.
Cameron: It’s not. I wonder, I’m 34 right now, when I’m older, what it’s going to be for me.
Kristen: Right, right. Because technology is just like constantly. There’s new technology. Yeah.
Cameron: Because there’s already, you know in social media, there are certain tricks you can do, like filters.
Kristen: Yeah.
Cameron: There are already things I know I don’t know and I don’t care about. But I have a hard time sometimes with certain new social media stuff.
Kristen: Me too. I mean double for me. Okay.
2) I had a hard time getting the car started this morning.
Cameron: Yeah, maybe your battery is low on your car. Or maybe, I hear in Canada, they have to… In the winter? In the winter, they have a special heater for their engine.
Kristen: For their engines.
Cameron: And they walk out and they have to turn on the heater so that the car becomes hot enough.
Kristen: What?
Cameron: You start their engine.
Kristen: Well, it is true. When you park your car outside and it’s very, very cold in the morning, you have a hard time getting the engine started.
Cameron: Or some people just have a hard time getting up, you know? Or either you’re sleepy. Maybe you’ve got a hurt back. Maybe your knees are bad. Yeah. You have a hard time getting up.
Kristen: Like naturally
Cameron: Yeah, like literally.
2. early bird: 아침형 인간 / night owl: 저녁형 인간
Kristen: Early bird is someone who is active in the early morning. So if you say you’re an early bird, how early do you have to get up? What do you think?
Cameron: I would say 6 a.m. or before. Really early. Really? Like with the sunrise.
Kristen: so that’s an early bird.
Cameron: Like if you’re getting up, if you’re like, I get up early, I get up at 7 a.m. Uh-huh. I want to laugh. I started school at 7.30 where I lived.
Kristen: Oh my. Are you serious?
Cameron: Oh, yeah. We had so the work starts at 8 am. And so mom had to take me the school, when I was in elementary school, 7:30 am.
Kristen: Wow. So you have to go to school. But school started at 8, right? Okay, yeah, but still pretty early. Because in Korea, it’s 9, which is wonderful. I don’t understand why in America school starts at 8 a.m. I just don’t understand.
Cameron: Because the parents have to go to work. So before they go to work, they have to take their kid.
Kristen: Okay. All right.
1)
A: Did you just get out of bed, Charlie?
B: Yes, because not everyone is an early bird like you.
Kristen: It’s 8 o’clock. Did you just get out of bed?
Cameron: Imagine 8 am being considered late.
2) My mother is an early bird and has all her housework done by 8 am.
Cameron: This was my mom. My mom loved to wake up on Saturday at like 6 am.
Kristen: Yeah.
Cameron: Turn on the vacuum cleaner. And like it hits the, you know when the vacuum cleaner hits the door? Yeah. It’s like so much louder.
Kristen: It’s so loud.
Cameron: And you can see the light from underneath the door.
Kristen: The whole family had to get up at 6:00 AM.
Cameron: Oh, yeah
Kristen: Wow. Thank goodness you lived, like, you didn’t live in an apartment.
Cameron: Oh, yeah. Well, that’s something I had to learn. We lived in the countryside.. There was no don’t use your vacuum cleaner before.
Kristen: True.
Cameron: So when I first came to Korea, I was like washing clothes at 5 a.m. Apparently, you weren’t supposed to do that. Not moving furniture at 5 a.m. Doing like jumping. No.
Kristen: Oh. Oh, no.
Cameron: I’m not exercising in my room.
Kristen: No. Cameron.
3. settle into something: –하는 데에 익숙해지다.
Okay. All right. Settle into something means to be comfortable with something new. So you’re in a new environment or new situation and you’re becoming more comfortable. Yes.
1)
A: It feels strange living in such a small town. One.
B: Once you settle into a routine, this town will start to feel like home.
Kristen: So as we see here, as we’ve seen, settle into a routine. Yes. So it’s been repeated again, which is like to get used to, to get comfortable with the routine.
Cameron: Yeah.
2) Mira settled into her role as manager very quickly. Yeah,
Cameron: So this is again with the work that we talked about earlier getting used to all the stuff you have to do at work. This can be used in like a very simple sense like settle into your seat. Get really comfortable in your chair. Or like you know how like dogs before they like lay down they like turn around in a circle. And they kind of like hit paw at the pillow to get it just the right shape that they want. That’s the dog settling into, you know, their seat, their place.
4. I’m willing to: –할 의향이 있다
Kristen: Yes. Okay. Power pattern, I’m willing to means that I am open to this idea.
Cameron: Sure.
1) I’m willing to split the cost of a hotel room.
2) I’m willing to work on Saturdays and Sundays.
Okay. It’s not saying I want to. But it’s saying like I’m open if we need to. If we need to.
Kristen: If we need you.
Cameron: I can do that.
Kristen: That’s right. That’s right. It’s not that I want to. Very good distinction.
Cameron: I will not say no. Okay. Yeah.
Kristen: Okay. A night owl on page 24 is our power vocab. Do check out the definition.
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