사자성어 (with Tyler Rasch) | Essential Korean 4-Character Idioms

With This Course

• Build a foundation in essential Hanja-based words to develop a more robust vocabulary
• Understand 사자성어 used in everyday conversations

What to Expect

• 40 lesson videos and lesson notes

Table of Contents

• Introduction. What is 사자성어 and why should we learn it?
• Lesson 1. 동고동락 - sharing one’s sorrows and joys together
• Lesson 2. 자포자기 - giving up on everything in despair
• Lesson 3. 다재다능 - having various different talents and abilities
• Lesson 4. 막상막하 - things being neck and neck and hard to compare
• Lesson 5. 각양각색 - various shapes and colors
• Lesson 6. 비몽사몽 - being half asleep and half awake
• Lesson 7. 자업자득 - seeing the consequences of one’s actions
• Lesson 8. 연말연시 - time around the year-end and the beginning of the new year
• Lesson 9. 비일비재 - a certain incident happens frequently
• Lesson 10. 왈가왈부 - arguing over something
• Lesson 11. 차일피일 - putting things off repeatedly
• Lesson 12. 전전긍긍 - being nervous and shaking because one is afraid
• Lesson 13. 호시탐탐 - keeping an eye on a situation and waiting for an opportunity
• Lesson 14. 첩첩산중 - difficulties occurring one after another
• Lesson 15. 묵묵부답 - not responding to a question
• Lesson 16. 사사건건 - each and every individual matter concerned
• Lesson 17. 다다익선 - the more, the better
• Lesson 18. 유명무실 - being nominal
• Lesson 19. 동문서답 - giving an irrelevant answer
• Lesson 20. 우왕좌왕 - being indecisive and not knowing what to do
• Lesson 21. 외유내강 - someone who looks soft outside but is firm on the inside
• Lesson 22. 남녀노소 - everybody
• Lesson 23. 격세지감 - being amazed by a big change of something in a short time
• Lesson 24. 무용지물 - something that is useless
• Lesson 25. 선견지명 - knowledge of what will happen in the future
• Lesson 26. 과유불급 - too much is as bad as too little
• Lesson 27. 개과천선 - regretting one's faults from the past and becoming a better person
• Lesson 28 . 일석이조 - killing two birds with one stone
• Lesson 29 . 언행일치 - one's words match up with one’s actions
• Lesson 30 . 금시초문 - hearing something for the first time
• Lesson 31 . 노심초사 - caring deeply about something and being worried
• Lesson 32 . 시기상조 - being too early to do something
• Lesson 33 . 우유부단 - being hesitant and indecisive
• Lesson 34 . 적반하장 - the guilty one is blaming the innocent one
• Lesson 35 . 일취월장 - making quick progress
• Lesson 36 . 작심삼일 - a plan or resolution that does not last long enough
• Lesson 37 . 심사숙고 - to think deeply and carefully about something
• Lesson 38 . 역지사지 - putting oneself in the other person's shoes
• Lesson 39 . 속수무책 - being helpless and unable to do anything
• Lesson 40 . 주객전도 - tail wagging the dog

Teacher

Tyler