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Korean daily life phrases for Japanese speakers: home and neighborhood Korean

This deck trains the Korean of ordinary life: leaving home, buying something nearby, receiving a package, checking what is left, talking about the room, paying, preparing and handling small problems.

What this deck teaches

Travel phrases help at the airport or hotel, but daily Korean happens before and after the trip: at home, at the convenience store, when a delivery arrives, when something in the room is not working, or when you need to pay and leave quickly.

Every card starts from a Japanese situation and asks for one Korean sentence you can say out loud. The groups stay close to home and neighborhood life so this deck does not restate the existing travel deck.

The Korean answers are Hangul-only. Reading aids belong outside the answer column because VoiceCards detects the answer language from the column itself; mixing kana or romaji into Korean answers would break the voice and speech-recognition path.

Three moments in an ordinary day

The first six cards on the sheet are all from the morning. The rest of the deck leaves the house.

At the convenience store

Ask for a bag, and ask to have the food heated.

コンビニ:袋が必要だと言う
봉투 하나 필요해요.
コンビニ:温めてほしいと言う
이거 데워 주세요.

A package arrives

Ask whether it came, and say where to leave it.

宅配:荷物が届いたか聞く
택배 왔어요?
宅配:玄関前に置いてほしいと言う
문 앞에 놓아 주세요.

Something in the room is not working

What you tell a landlord or the front desk.

設備:電気がつかないと伝える
불이 안 켜져요.
設備:水が流れないと伝える
물이 잘 안 내려가요.

How to study Korean daily life phrases

  1. Start with one place. Do the ten cards from one setting, such as home or convenience stores, until you can answer before checking. A complete place is easier to reuse than scattered phrases.
  2. Use Listen mode for endings. Korean sentence endings carry politeness and tone. Looping the cards lets those endings become familiar before you try to produce them under pressure.
  3. Speak before reading. Look at the Japanese prompt and say the Korean first. Reading the Hangul answer after the fact is feedback, not the main practice.
  4. Swap in your real details. After a card is easy, change the place, time, person or reason. The sentence pattern stays stable while the content becomes yours.

Sample cards

朝:もう起きたか聞く
벌써 일어났어요?
朝:もう少し寝たいと言う
조금만 더 잘게요.
朝:朝ごはんを食べるか聞く
아침 먹고 갈 거예요?
朝:急いでいると伝える
지금 좀 급해요.
朝:先に出ると伝える
저 먼저 나갈게요.
朝:鍵を持ったか確認する
열쇠 챙겼어요?

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