My Korean studies are going well. I had a vacation so I had more free time than normally. I'm now up to lesson 11 of Sejong 4. Each lesson has five listening tasks and I mostly focus on those. Most of them are easy for me to understand, but sometimes I'm missing key vocabulary so I'm lost. 적응하다 (to adapt) was one of those words. 수목원 was another one. I'm also lost when people talk about dates or prices or anything with numbers. I know the numbers, of course, but I need to think about them before I can recognize them.
In unrelated news, today I decided to go through the lyrics of 그 여자 once again to see if there was still some grammar I didn't understand. Phrases like "한번 나를 안아주고 가면 안 돼요" and "알면서도 이러는 건 아니죠" gave me lots of trouble a few years ago but now I've gotten the hang of them. Particularly the second one is something you can only learn from your friends or dramas, not from textbooks IMO. But I found two things in the lyrics that still gave me trouble.
1) 바라만
I thought this was related to the particle 만, but it is attached to nouns and 바라다 is a verb so I was stumped. I looked through the KGIU Intermediate book and didn't find anything that would fit. Finally I found the explanation on Italki. Turns out the verb is 바라보다, not 바라다. And it's an exception. 만 can be attached to 하다 verbs like this: 이야기만 하다. So in this case the same is done to 바라보다 to get 바라만 보다 even though 바라 is not a noun. It's just... I have no words. I thought the days of Korean boggling my mind were behind me but apparently not.
2) 있데요
This is a sentence ending on which I found only
one explanation on the internet. But then I also found it in my KGIU Advanced book so now I can be sure it's a legitimate ending
It means approximately the same thing as -더라고요.
I also found a drama to watch - Suspicious Partner. It's about lawyers with a big dose of romance and murder. It's not ideal but it's better than high school antics. The reason I wanted to watch something other than Running Man is that I only have 159 episodes and I'm already up to 92. I'll run out of them in no time if I don't slow down.