Clip off 약간 잘라 내다. Get to Know 알아가다. Study up on – 을 연구하다.
Power Warm-up: Foraging with Grandma: Your Mom Is Going to Be Impressed
Travis’s grandmother is impressed with Travis. He’s taken a strong interest in foraging and has listened closely to what she taught him. She tells him he’s a good student.
Kristen:
Hi everyone, I’m Kristen Cho.
Cameron:
And I’m Cameron word.
Kristen:
And how’s it going, Cam?
Cameron:
I’m doing well.
Kristen:
And I would like to remind everyone, the new book for next month, they’re out.
Cameron:
They’re out already.
Kristen:
Already.
Cameron:
They’re sparkling.
Kristen:
Hot off the press.
Cameron:
I know, they’re still warm.
Kristen:
They’re warm. They’re not hot, because it’s been a few days. But they’re… Lukewarm.
Cameron:
They’re nice and shiny in your local bookstore. Go pick one up and smell it.
Kristen:
Yeah, smell it. Because let me tell you something. I’ve got exciting news from one of our listeners. Now, do you remember we introduced an engineer from, like, a nuclear power, like, one of our listeners, our fans, happens to work for a hydro nuclear power plant
Cameron:
Hell yeah, uh-huh.
Kristen:
The company, remember? So he recently sent me a DM through Instagram and said that his company won or had the preferred bid for Czech.
Cameron:
The company? The country?
Kristen:
The country. So we’re gonna make that announcement. I heart it on the news.
Cameron:
Wow! That’s amazing.
Kristen:
And he was thanking us because, you know, of course, they had to go back and forth, back and forth.
Cameron:
Uh-huh.
Kristen:
Numerous talks and he said it was thanks to power English that he was able to properly express himself.
Cameron:
Wow! That’s amazing.
Kristen:
I was like that, so wonderful.
Cameron:
That’s so cool!
Kristen:
Yeah. So.
Cameron:
Well I think it’s I mean that’s amazing even I didn’t know that like Korea would go to other countries and.
Kristen:
Oh.
Cameron:
Build? Well, I mean– Nuclear power plants?
Kristen:
Construction, engineering, this is big in Korea. And so they’re actually going out to the world and selling their technology.
Cameron:
Wow. Isn’t that great? Well, I hope maybe he’ll get to go to, he or she will get to go to Czech and go, I don’t know, enjoy some time there, speaking English and maybe some Czech, like learn some Czech while you’re at it.
Power Expressions
Kristen:
All right, so thank you so much. And we have our food dialogue today. Foraging with Grandma, your mom is going to be impressed. So all month we’ve been foraging with Grandma. And today, you know, Travis does a really good job. So, Grandma is complimenting. Okay, clip off, C-L-I-P off something. Is what?
Cameron:
This means you’re kind of cutting off something, often from like a plant, just snip, snip, snip, snip. You’re clipping it off.
Kristen:
How about if you get to know something or someone.
Cameron:
You become familiar with it. It’s no longer strange or new. You’re used to it or you know about it.
Kristen:
Now, we know what the word study means.
Grandma:
What?
Kristen:
But if you study up on something, what does this mean?
Cameron:
This means that you’re learning a lot about something and maybe it’s something, it’s like research that you’re having to do. It’s information you’re going to need to perform a task.
Kristen:
Okay, very good. So let’s see how these expressions are used in the dialogue.
Power Dialog
Travis: I’m going to clip off a piece of this plant and take it home. I’m not sure if it’s safe.
Grandma: I can give you the answer if you want.
Travis: No, I want to research this one myself.
Grandma: You’re a good student, Travis. You’ll get to know new plants every time you forage.
Travis: Thanks. I know I need to study up on edible wild plants, But I really enjoy foraging with you, Grandma.
Grandma: Your mom is going to be impressed at the food we bring back.
Kristen:
Here we go. Travis says, I’m going to clip off a piece of this plant and take it home. I’m not sure if it’s safe. We have this scissors we also call clippers. A certain type of scissors. Yes. So to clip means what?
Cameron:
So you’re just taking your scissors and you’re just kind of, you’re taking a little small piece of it.
Kristen:
Right, so it’s cutting, but it’s not like 슝 –. It’s like a little clip.
Cameron:
Yeah. So cutting is a little general and you don’t know the size. Is it a big cut or a small cut. With clip, it’s always small. Right? yeah. So if you’re clipping your hair, you’re cutting maybe a small piece of your hair.
Kristen:
Right, so could you just clip the side?
Cameron:
Yeah, clip the sides. Cut it a little bit. A little bit. But if you say cut, you could cut all of your hair off.
Kristen:
Yes, Right. Okay. So if you clip off a piece of this plant, you’re just taking a little part of this plant.
Cameron:
You just want to take it home to look at it and make sure it’s okay.
Kristen:
Okay. So to clip off a piece is like, as you can see from the dialog here, you’re just taking a little bit of something. By cutting it. Grandma says, I can give you the answer if you want. Okay. So, Travis is not sure if the plant is safe. And that’s why grandma is saying, I can tell you, right? If you want. Now, you’ll notice that this pattern is at the end, if you want.
Cameron:
Right.
Kristen:
I think we know what this means.
Cameron:
Right, so the actual meaning of this phrase isn’t that difficult to understand. However, this is one of those phrases where if it comes at the beginning of a sentence, it feels different than if it comes at the end. So if you put this in the front, if you want, I can give you the answer. Feels much more, I guess, neutral, right? But if you put it at the end, I can give you the answer if you want. It kind of cuts the request off a little bit. I can give you the answer if you want. If you want. You’re backing off. You’re backing away from this request (조심스러운 요청, 제안). Because maybe Travis is like, no, I want to figure it out myself. Ah!
Kristen:
I want this, I wanna take this piece home.
Cameron:
Right, so that if you want at the end, it’s kind of like, no pressure, I’m not gonna pressure you on this.
Kristen:
So if you were saying like, oh, we can go out to dinner if you want.
Cameron:
Yeah.
Kristen:
It’s like, if you want, it’s a little direct if you put it in the beginning, but at the end it’s kind of like, it’s okay if you want.
Cameron:
Right, it makes it, it turns it into like, Oh you know, I don’t care. Either way is fine. It’s okay. But, you know, I have this thought if you want.
Cameron:
The meaning itself is not different, but as a native speaker, the feeling is slightly different at the end.
Kristen:
What does Travis say?
Cameron:
No, I want to research this one myself.
Kristen:
Okay, so Travis is like, no, no, no, no. I want to do it. And Grandma says, you’re a good student, Travis. You’ll get to know new plants every time you forage. So, get to know. Now we know what know means. But if you get to know something, what does this mean?
Cameron:
So here, the meaning again is not different but the process feels a little different. Get to know means you are slowly becoming familiar. You don’t go from ‘not know,’ zero percent to 100 percent. It’s a very, it’s a slower more gradual process of learning how things are. A little bit at a time.
Kristen:
A little bit at a time. That’s the key point right there. Okay. To get to know you. So I want to get to know you. I want to get to know her means, okay, I want to take the time to know her.
Cameron:
Yes.
Kristen:
Okay. And what does Travis say?
Cameron:
Thanks! I know I need to study up on edible wild plants, but I really enjoy foraging with you, Grandma.
Kristen:
So if you study up on edible wild plants, and we learned this word edible, which means something you can eat. If you want to study up on wild plants, you’re simply studying?
Cameron:
So you are studying, but the feeling is that you are learning about something to apply it to some task, to use it for some benefit. So, if you’re studying edible plants, I think maybe you’re a scientist and you just want to know about the plants (연구하다) . But with study up on edible plants, I think, oh, they’re reading this so that they can use it. So, I think if I’m studying up on edible plants, oh, they’re going to go into the forest and they want to actually find the plants to eat them.
Grandma:
Yeah.
Cameron:
They’re using that information they’re studying to do something with it. We often maybe don’t see this with foraging plants, but I do often hear about studying up on a topic for a test. You’re going to use that information in a test or in a presentation.
Kristen:
Yeah, or it could be maybe you want to like buy a house. You know you can study up on real estate, right? A topic that you don’t know about.
Cameron:
Or doctors study up on certain surgeries. Maybe it’s a surgery they don’t do very often. Maybe there’s new information they need to know. They learn it. They research it to then use that for a task.
Kristen:
Got it. Yeah Grandma says your mom is going to be impressed at the food we bring back. So our power vocab today is impressed.
Cameron:
Yeah.
Kristen:
To be impressed.
Cameron:
To be impressed means that you are a little surprised, often by how good something is. Oh, I didn’t know you could do this. Wow. You do pretty well. I’m impressed.
Kristen:
Okay. All right. So let’s go ahead and listen to that dialogue one more time.
Power Dialog
Travis: I’m going to clip off a piece of this plant and take it home. I’m not sure if it’s safe.
Grandma: I can give you the answer if you want.
Travis: No, I want to research this one myself.
Grandma: You’re a good student, Travis. You’ll get to know new plants every time you forage.
Travis: Thanks. I know I need to study up on edible wild plants, But I really enjoy foraging with you, Grandma.
Grandma: Your mom is going to be impressed at the food we bring back.
Power Note
1. Clip off : -을 조금 잘라내다.
Kristen:
Okay, let’s do a quick review. We’re on pages 154 and 55. So if you clip off something, it means to cut, but it’s not cutting the whole thing.
Cameron:
Yeah.
Kristen:
But a piece of something. Yes. Okay.
1)
A: Do you mind if I clip off that coupon from the magazine you’re reading?
B: No problem, but can you wait until I finish reading this article?
Kristen:
Coupons are really big in America.
Cameron:
Oh yeah yeah.
Kristen:
And you can find them in newspapers. You take your scissor and you cut along the dotted line. That’s clipping off.
Cameron:
Have you seen that show Extreme Couponing?
Kristen:
No, but I’ve heard of it.
Cameron:
People will buy like $300 worth of stuff, but with the coupons, it’s like free.
Kristen:
I know.
Cameron:
It’s amazing.
Kristen:
Amazing.
Cameron:
But they have to clip off all of these coupons, clip them out.
Kristen:
Out? Yes.
2) When a flower dies, I clip it off so a new one will bloom.
Cameron:
Ah, yeah, this is called deadheading. Ooh, there’s a name for it? Yeah, so if you have roses and the bloom starts to die, you cut off the bloom, and then it’ll grow a new one. It tells the plant, okay, stop with the dead one, make a new one.
Kristen:
I’m deadheading.
Cameron:
Yeah, you have to clip off the flowers or you can also do this. Certain plants clip off the leaves and you can stick it in the ground or stick it in water. And it will start to grow. You know, I did this recently with Minari.
Kristen:
Oh!
Cameron:
That stuff, so I had minari because I made some like전 at home. You did? I did. I made some 김치전, but I also put minari in it. Oh, you are so creative. But I clipped off the bottom part and put it in some water. And it already, it’s growing roots.
Kristen:
Yeah, it’s like green onions.
Cameron:
It’s like they can grow anywhere.
Kristen:
It’s like 파. Yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh, I should try that with Minari.
Cameron:
Oh, it’s so easy. I didn’t realize how easy it was. But yeah, you just clip off a little bit from the bottom.
2. Get to know: 알아가다. 익숙하게 되다.
Kristen:
Okay, now we know how to use this word. Okay. Get to know something or someone means to become familiar with someone or something.
1)
A: Are you and Kendall dating?
B: No, we’re still getting to know each other.
Kristen:
Isn’t this a common usage of this phrase? Yeah. Especially in the beginning part of the relationship. You don’t know each other. So you are getting to know each other. And, you know, do you remember the King and I, the song? Ah. Getting to know you. Getting to know all about you.
Cameron:
That’s right. I can’t sing it. But yeah, there was that song, the Getting to Know You song. And it’s about Anna. Is her name Anna? Anna and the King talking to each other over many weeks and months.
Kristen:
Yes.
Cameron:
And slowly learning about each other. That’s right.
2) After getting to know this city, it started to feel like home.
So it’s not just a person. You can get to know the city or the country.
Cameron:
Yeah.
Kristen:
Or get to know the company.
Cameron:
Yeah, totally. Anything where you slowly learn about it. You know? So, I recently moved. Every time I walk my dog.
Kristen:
You’re getting to know the neighborhood?
Cameron:
Getting to know the neighborhood.
Kristen:
Oh, and how is it?
Cameron:
Some of the houses are so nice. It’s like an older neighborhood. So there’s a lot of those like, villa, right? But there are like these little brick houses.
Kristen:
So cute.
Cameron:
Some of them are like really nice with like flowers and stuff.
Kristen:
Oh my, that’s hard to see in Seoul.
Cameron:
Yeah, a little bit. But you know what I love? What? Like the, some of the older houses have gates. Like they still have those like big gates you have to go under.
Kristen:
The big gates that you have to go under?
Cameron:
Yeah, like, so it’s like, it’s a 문, right? But it’s like, you have to go through it. It’s not like a small fence gate. It’s like a big one. Oh, yes. And some of them are so big, you can put plants on top of them. It’s so nice to like…
Kristen:
I know what the geek that you’re talking about.
Cameron:
It’s like an iron gate, but then the…
Kristen:
It’s like an Arc de Triomphe (에투알 개선문).
Cameron:
Yeah. Kind of. Hahaha. But it’s so nice, like these houses and they have a little courtyard.
Kristen:
Oh, those are really…
Cameron:
I can’t go in them because it’s not my house. But looking from the outside, it’s really nice.
Kristen:
It’s kind of like 응답하다 like.
Cameron:
Yeah, while I’m getting to know my neighborhood, I’m just hearing.. 음악…
Kristen:
hahaha.
Cameron:
Ha ha ha ha!
3. study up on -: 을 연구하다.
Kristen:
All right, let’s move on to the last one. Study up on something means to, it says here to learn a lot about something. But you mentioned an important point, which is you are learning about it for a reason. You want to use that knowledge to get something done. Yes.
1)
A: You know a lot about Australia.
B: I always study up on a place before I travel there. Yeah.
Kristen:
That’s right. You study up on the country because you’re going to go visit the country.
Cameron:
Yeah.
2) The team studied up on their competition before the big game.
Cameron:
Yes, they’re going to play a game. So they want to know what their opponent is good at and what they’re not good at.
Kristen:
Yeah.
Cameron:
That’s right. They are going to use that information to win.
Kristen:
Okay, so whenever you start something new, you want to know what’s going on. You want to use that information.
4. – if you want: 원한다면, 괜찮다면
Okay, our power pattern is if you want at the end of the sentence. Yes. Which is kind of like, yeah, if you want to do it. No pressure.
Cameron:
1) We can stop for ice cream on the way home if you want.
Cameron:
Yeah. Yeah. If you say it the other way, if you want, we can stop for ice cream on the way home. Oh. Means it’s more pushing like, I kind of want to do this.
Kristen:
Yeah, I think we should.
Cameron:
Right.
2) I’ll change your bandage later if you want.
Kristen:
I don’t have to. You don’t want me to. You know, it’s whatever. That’s right. Okay, great. So our power vocab today is impressed, to be impressed. There is a lovely definition on page 156, so do check that on your own. And let’s thank our sponsor.
5. Impressed: 감명 받은
When someone is impressed, they have a strongly favorable opinion of someone or something. One may be impressed by wealth, strength, intelligence, innovation, etc.
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