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

Level

Level 6-9

Type

Video

Lessons

Language

English

"Learn Ultra-Useful Hanja Expressions"

What to Expect

40 lesson videos and lesson notes

With This Course

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

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