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Episode 30 · Can This Love Be Translated? · 이 사랑 통역 되나요?

Is This Flirting in Korean?

Today's scene comes from Can This Love Be Translated? An interpreter invites an actress to dinner. Listen to how she says yes.

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In this lesson you'll learn

  • 🍽️ 아깝잖아요 — "It'd be a waste, right?" (How '-잖아요' invites agreement)
  • 💬 먹어 줄게요 — "I'll eat it for you" (Why a helpful offer can feel playful)
  • 😅 안 들어가요 — How to say you can't eat any more or feel too nervous/stuffed to eat

Today's expressions

아깝잖아요
It'd be a waste, right?
먹어 줄게요
I'll eat it for you (as a 'favor')
안 들어가요
I can't eat any more

What do they really mean in the scene — and when would they sound rude? That's in the video.

From the word bank

아깝다to be a waste
-잖아요you know, right?
먹어 주다to eat it for someone

+9 more words, each with a picture and a trick to remember it — in the video.

Credits.

Dialogue quoted from "Can This Love Be Translated?" (이 사랑 통역 되나요?, Netflix) in shortened and partly adapted form for language education.

Original scene: Netflix Korea official clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YAspHQBWqg / 3:11–3:31, 3:46–4:13)

Host Nevaeh is an AI presenter. Character voices are AI voices performing the tone of the scene, not the actors' voices. Illustrations are original AI-generated webtoon art.

Native Korean reviewer: Jason Ryu