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Meli・하윤

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2020.02.19 05:31

HOW TO USE SAY, SPEAK, TALK, and TELL:

TO SAY = to speak words


• Only used to quote or repeat a person's spoken words.

Present tense - SAY
- "What did you say?" --> 뭐라고 하셨죠?
- "Melissa says her season is Autumn"

Past tense - SAID
- "I said that we should go to the movies today." (verbal)
- "We should go home" she said. (written/narrated)


TO SPEAK = the act of talking or using language.
• SPEAK and TALK are interchangeable, EXCEPT when talking about speaking a language.

Present tense - SPEAK
- "I don't speak Korean well" --> 한국말 잘 못해요 ✔
- "I don't talk Korean well" ✖

- I will speak to her tomorrow ✔
- I will talk to her tomorrow ✔

Past tense - SPOKE
• When NOT speaking about language, SPOKE and TALKED are interchangeable.

- "My teacher spoke/talked to me after class"

- "My friend spoke Spanish to his mom" ✔
- "My friend talked Spanish to his mom ✖

TO TELL - To give information to someone. TELL/TOLD is always followed by a person's name or a pronoun!

Present tense - TELL
- "Tell me about your day" --> 니 하루를 말해주세요
- "Did you tell them your secret?"

Past tense - TOLD

- "Jun told me that he's 26 years old"
- "Melissa told Mingi that she's bored."

Let's try to use what we learned today by writing a short paragraph:

- Many polyglots SAY that language learners should practice SPEAKing in their target language, to improve their confidence when TALKing to Natives. I always TELL my Korean friends that I prefer to text in Korean, but recently I started working on my listening and speaking skills!

*I did not include many Korean sentences in my explanation because these four English words DO NOT directly translate into Korean well*

Comment some of your own sentences for practice and I will check them! 🤗
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  • jd 2020.02.19 05:42

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    Juna says that, in winter it's fun to go for a tour. Then I talked with my friends if they want to go or not. They told me that they can go at weekend. I also talked with my neighbour friend Alex who speak Turkish. He said, he also have will to go.😊
  • Meli・하윤 2020.02.19 05:57

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    @jd "Juna says that, in the winter, it's fun to go to concerts. I talked with my friends to see if they want to go to one or not. They told me that they can go to one weekend. I also talked to my neighbor/friend, Alex, who speaks Turkish. He said he will also go." Good job using the words! I just fixed some grammatical errors with prepositions, tense, punctuation, etc. I was confused by what you meant by: "to go for a tour You can: Go on tour - this is what an artist calls the time spent performing at many concerts in different cities Go on a tour of *place* - visit a place where someone will guide you around with a lot of historical information OR to go sightseeing
  • Sophie 2020.02.19 07:05

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    Wow thank you for sharing me ! I have a question! What does mean “her season”?? Does it mean her favorite season?
  • Meli・하윤 2020.02.19 08:26

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    - "Melissa says her season is Autumn"

    - "Melissa says her favorite season is Autumn"

  • Meli・하윤 2020.02.19 08:26

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    @Sophie ahh, I made a typo. I meant to say favorite season*, sorry!
  • kim 2020.02.19 08:46

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    I really love this post 🥺
  • Meli・하윤 2020.02.19 08:47

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    @kim hahaha let's practice!
  • Sophie 2020.02.22 03:18

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    @Meli・하윤 what a teacher. I believe you are a great teacher:-) Have a good weekend Meli🙃
  • Meli・하윤 2020.02.22 03:26

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    @Sophie thank you ^^ same to you!
  • Minki 2020.03.01 02:47

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    - "Tell me about your day" --> 하루를 말해주세요

    - "Tell me about your day" --> 당신의 하루를 말해주세요

  • Саша Безуглий 2020.03.14 10:09

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    not bad
  • Sera 2020.06.17 08:02

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    U-stunner,beauty intuition ,glow touch, morning beautiful. Dear do you think which one is the best for beauty brand name
  • Meli・하윤 2020.06.19 13:09

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    @Sera I like beauty intuition
  • Sera 2020.06.19 13:12

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    @Meli・하윤 thanks 😊

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