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Persuading Someone to See Your Point

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IS #152 โ€” Persuading Someone to See Your Point
How to bring someone around to your view using warmth, logic, and Korean persuasion patterns.
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Iru Helper Note
Korean persuasion rarely starts with "I'm right." It starts with connection. Native speakers build toward their point by first showing they understand the other person's position.
ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”?
(What if you thought about it this way?)
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๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Learn Today

Persuasion in Korean is about guiding someone toward your view, not pushing them there. The most effective Korean persuaders use a blend of empathy, shared logic, and gentle framing to bring others along. In this lesson, you'll learn the expressions that make your case feel natural, not forced โ€” and that leave the other person feeling respected, not cornered.

๐Ÿ“Œ Persuasion Expressions

Expression
Meaning
Notes
ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”?
What if you thought about it this way?
Invites reflection, not confrontation
์ œ ๋ง์ด ๋งž๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์„ธ์š”?
Don't you think I'm right?
Direct but softened by question form
๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”
Let's think about it together
Collaborative persuasion
์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”
I think this is the best option
States your conviction clearly
ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”
Please just trust me once
Appeals to relationship and goodwill
์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”
I think doing it this way would be good
Soft recommendation
์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„
I know why you think that. Still...
Empathy-then-redirect
์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”
Once you actually try it, it's different
Experience-based persuasion
์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”
The truth/reality is this
Frames your view as the fuller picture
์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ
In my experience
Personal grounding for your claim
์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด
If you think about it just a little more
Invites deeper reflection
ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š”
Let me ask you just one thing
Socratic opening
์ด๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋‚˜์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”
I think this would be better
Comparison-based recommendation
๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—”
In the end / Ultimately
Points to the bigger picture
๐Ÿ’ก Key pattern: ์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š” โ†’ ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ / ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” โ†’ ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”. Empathy โ†’ Reality โ†’ Conviction.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Conversations in Action

Persuading a hesitant colleague:
๋™๋ฃŒ: ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์จ๋ณด๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ข€ ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•ด์š”.
(Colleague: I'm a bit anxious about trying a new method.)
๋‚˜: ์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š” โ€” ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”.
(Me: I know why you think that. Still, please just trust me once โ€” once you actually try it, it's different.)
Using a Socratic approach:
์นœ๊ตฌ: ์ž˜ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
(Friend: I'm not sure.)
๋‚˜: ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š” โ€” ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ฐฉ์‹๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”? ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”.
(Me: Let me ask you just one thing โ€” if you keep doing it the current way, what do you think will happen in the end? Let's think about it together.)

๐ŸŒ Cultural Note โ€” Persuasion and ์ฒด๋ฉด (Face-saving)

Korean persuasion works best when it lets the other person feel they reached the conclusion themselves. Phrases like ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š” and ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? invite collaboration rather than demanding agreement. This protects ์ฒด๋ฉด โ€” the social face of the person you're persuading โ€” which makes them far more likely to actually come around.

<summary>Try This Speaking Exercise
For each scenario, use a persuasion expression to bring the other person toward your view.
A. A friend is reluctant to try your recommended restaurant. Invite reflection.
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ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”!
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B. A colleague doubts your proposal. Use empathy-then-redirect.
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์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”.
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C. Someone won't try something new. Use experience-based persuasion.
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์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”. ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.
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D. Someone hasn't thought deeply enough. Invite deeper reflection gently.
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์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์ œ ๋ง์ด ๋งž๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์„ธ์š”?
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E. You want to frame your view as the fuller picture.
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์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” โ€” ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” ๋” ๋‚˜์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
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F. Use a Socratic approach to open a persuasion.
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ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š” โ€” ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์†ํ•˜๋ฉด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
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G. Make a soft recommendation without sounding pushy.
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์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”.
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H. Point to the ultimate outcome to make your case.
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๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋‚˜์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”.
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I. Use a comparison-based recommendation.
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์ด๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋‚˜์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด์—์š”.
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J. Deliver a full persuasion sequence: empathy โ†’ reality โ†’ conviction โ†’ invitation.
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์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”. ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”?
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๐Ÿ“š
Expression Reference
Expression
Nuance/Key
ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”?
invite reflection
์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”
empathy first
๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„
empathy-then-redirect
๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”
collaborative
ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”
appeal to trust
์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”
experience-based
์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”
fuller picture
ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š”
Socratic opener
๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—”
ultimate outcome
์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”
state conviction
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Tip: ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„
๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ means "still / even so" and is the perfect bridge after an empathy statement. "์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„..." = "I know why you think that. Still..." It shows you heard them AND you have more to say.
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๐Ÿ”
Want more reps?
Think of something you believe in strongly โ€” a habit, a choice, a preference. Practice persuading an imaginary skeptic using the full empathy โ†’ reality โ†’ conviction sequence. The goal: make your case feel like an invitation, not an argument.
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๐Ÿ“ฆ Practice Hub โ€” Persuasion Expressions


Exercise 1 โ€” Choose the Right Expression

Choose the best persuasion expression for each situation.
A. You want to invite someone to reflect without confronting them.
a) ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š” b) ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? c) ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š” d) ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—”
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b) ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? โ€” invites reflection gently.
B. You want to appeal to trust and goodwill.
a) ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” b) ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด c) ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š” d) ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”
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c) ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š” โ€” "please just trust me once."
C. You want to show empathy before redirecting.
a) ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” b) ์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ c) ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋‚˜์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š” d) ์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ
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b) ์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ โ€” empathy + redirect.
D. You want to ground your persuasion in personal experience.
a) ์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ b) ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” c) ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š” d) ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”
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a) ์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ โ€” "in my experience."
E. You want to open with a Socratic question.
a) ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š” b) ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š” c) ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” d) ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”
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b) ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š” โ€” Socratic opener.
F. You want to make a soft recommendation without pressure.
a) ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š” b) ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š” c) ์ œ ๋ง์ด ๋งž๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์„ธ์š”? d) ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—”
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a) ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š” โ€” soft, low-pressure recommendation.
G. You want to frame your view as the fuller picture.
a) ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š” b) ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” c) ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด d) ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋‚˜์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”
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b) ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” โ€” "the truth/reality is this."
H. You want to point to the ultimate outcome to close your argument.
a) ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด b) ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” c) ์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ d) ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”
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b) ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” โ€” "in the end / ultimately."
I. You want to make your persuasion feel collaborative, not one-sided.
a) ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š” b) ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด c) ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š” d) ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”
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c) ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š” โ€” "let's think about it together."
J. You want to state your conviction clearly.
a) ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š” b) ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š” c) ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š” d) ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„
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a) ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š” โ€” states conviction directly.
๐Ÿ“š
Quick Reference
Expression
Use Case
ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”?
invite reflection
์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„
empathy + redirect
ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”
appeal to trust
์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ
ground in experience
ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š”
Socratic opener
์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”
soft recommendation
์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”
frame fuller picture
๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—”
ultimate outcome
๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”
collaborative
์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”
state conviction
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Pitfall: Skipping empathy
Starting with "์ œ ๋ง์ด ๋งž์•„์š”" without any acknowledgment sounds arrogant in Korean professional contexts. Always show you've heard the other person โ€” even one phrase of empathy dramatically increases your persuasive power.

Exercise 2 โ€” Korean โ†’ English Translation

Translate each sentence naturally.
A. ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋‚˜์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
<summary>Answer
What if you thought about it this way? I think this would be better.
B. ์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
I know why you think that. Still, please just trust me once.
C. ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” โ€” ์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.
<summary>Answer
The reality is this โ€” in my experience, this method is much faster.
D. ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”.
<summary>Answer
Let's think about it together. In the end, I think this is the best option.
E. ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š” โ€” ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ฐฉ์‹๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
<summary>Answer
Let me ask you just one thing โ€” what will happen if you keep doing it the current way?
F. ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์ œ ๋ง์ด ๋งž๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์„ธ์š”?
<summary>Answer
If you think about it just a little more, don't you think I'm right?
G. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”.
<summary>Answer
I think doing it this way would be good. Once you actually try it, it's different.
H. ์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ, ์ฒ˜์Œ์—” ์–ด๋ ต์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” ํ›จ์”ฌ ์‰ฌ์›Œ์ ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
In my experience, it's hard at first, but in the end it gets much easier.
I. ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” โ€” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๋” ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•ด์š”.
<summary>Answer
The reality is this โ€” the other method is more dangerous.
J. ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”. ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด์—์š”.
<summary>Answer
Let's think about it together. What if you looked at it this way? This is the best option.
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Vocabulary Cheat Sheet
Word
Meaning
๋ฐฉ์‹
method / way / approach
๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—”
in the end / ultimately
ํ›จ์”ฌ
much more / far more
์ฒ˜์Œ์—”
at first
์œ„ํ—˜ํ•˜๋‹ค
to be dangerous
์‹ค์ œ๋กœ
actually / in practice
๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”
it's different
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Grammar Tip: -๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”
์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” uses -๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”, which signals "here's the reason/context you may not know." It's softer than just stating a fact because it implies "I'm sharing this for your benefit." Great for persuasion.

Exercise 3 โ€” Complete the Sentence

Fill in the blank with a natural persuasion expression.
A. _ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”. ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋‚˜์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. (Collaborative opener)
<summary>Answer
๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”. ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋‚˜์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
B. _ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? ํ›จ์”ฌ ์‰ฌ์›Œ์š”. (Invite reflection)
<summary>Answer
ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? ํ›จ์”ฌ ์‰ฌ์›Œ์š”.
C. ์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. _. ์ œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ๋” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด์—์š”. (Empathy bridge)
<summary>Answer
์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„. ์ œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ๋” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด์—์š”.
D. _ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” โ€” ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. (Fuller picture)
<summary>Answer
์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” โ€” ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.
E. _ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š” โ€” ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? (Socratic opener)
<summary>Answer
ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š” โ€” ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?
F. _ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š” โ€” ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”. (Trust appeal + experience)
<summary>Answer
ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š” โ€” ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”.
G. _ ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. (Ground in experience)
<summary>Answer
์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.
H. _ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. (Soft recommendation)
<summary>Answer
์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. (no filler needed โ€” just say it softly)
I. _ ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด์—์š”. ํ‹€๋ฆผ์—†์–ด์š”. (Ultimate outcome + conviction)
<summary>Answer
๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด์—์š”. ํ‹€๋ฆผ์—†์–ด์š”.
J. _ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์ œ ๋ง์ด ๋งž๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์„ธ์š”? (Invite deeper reflection)
<summary>Answer
์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์ œ ๋ง์ด ๋งž๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์„ธ์š”?
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Sentence Starters
Starter
Function
๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”
collaborative
ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด
invite reflection
๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„
empathy bridge
์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”
fuller picture
ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š”
Socratic
ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”
trust appeal
์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ
experience-based
๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—”
ultimate outcome
์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด
invite deeper reflection
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Production Tip
The most persuasive Korean speakers pause after ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. The pause signals "what comes next is the real thing." Try it: ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€... [pause] ...์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. That tiny pause makes your point land harder.

Exercise 4 โ€” Dialogue Completion

Complete each dialogue with a natural persuasive response.
A. ์นœ๊ตฌ: ๊ทธ ์นดํŽ˜ ์ข€ ๋ณ„๋กœ์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š” โ€” ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”.
B. ๋™๋ฃŒ: ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋А๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” โ€” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.
C. ์นœ๊ตฌ: ์šด๋™ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๊ท€์ฐฎ์•„์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ, ์ฒ˜์Œ๋งŒ ํž˜๋“ค๊ณ  ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ข‹์•„์ ธ์š”. ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”!
D. ์ƒ์‚ฌ: ์ด ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฑด ๋ถˆํ™•์‹คํ•ด์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
๊ทธ ์ ์€ ์ดํ•ดํ•ด์š”. ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š” โ€” ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”.
E. ๋™๋ฃŒ: ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์จ๋ด์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š” โ€” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”?
F. ์นœ๊ตฌ: ๋น„์‹ธ ๋ณด์—ฌ์„œ ์ข€ ๋ง์„ค์—ฌ์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” โ€” ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ์ ˆ์•ฝ๋ผ์š”. ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋‚˜์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
G. ํŒ€์›: ์ž˜ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์ œ ๋ง์ด ๋งž๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์„ธ์š”? ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”.
H. ๋™๋ฃŒ: ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ์ข€ ๋ถˆํŽธํ•ด์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
I. ์ƒ์‚ฌ: ์œ„ํ—˜ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ปค์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”.
J. ์นœ๊ตฌ: ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์˜ˆ์ „ ๋ฐฉ์‹๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•ด์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š” โ€” ์˜ˆ์ „ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”? ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”.
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Useful Phrases
Phrase
Meaning
๊ท€์ฐฎ๋‹ค
to be lazy about / bothersome
๋ง์„ค์ด๋‹ค
to hesitate
๋ถˆํ™•์‹คํ•˜๋‹ค
to be uncertain
์ ˆ์•ฝ๋˜๋‹ค
to save (money/resources)
๋ถˆํŽธํ•˜๋‹ค
to be uncomfortable
์œ„ํ—˜ ๋ถ€๋‹ด
risk burden
์˜ˆ์ „ ๋ฐฉ์‹
old method / previous way
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Conversation Tip
The best Korean persuaders don't end with "so I'm right." They end with a question: ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์„ธ์š”? ("What do you think?") or ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”. This keeps the door open and lets the other person feel they made the decision themselves.

Exercise 5 โ€” Free Speaking Practice

Speak your answer aloud in Korean. Use at least one persuasion expression per prompt.
A. Persuade a friend to try a new Korean dish they're skeptical about.
<summary>Suggested Approach
์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š” โ€” ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋จน์–ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”!
B. Persuade a colleague to try your working method instead of theirs.
<summary>Suggested Approach
ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? ์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ, ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ํšจ์œจ์ ์ด๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.
C. Persuade a friend to start learning a new skill.
<summary>Suggested Approach
๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”. ์ฒ˜์Œ์—” ์–ด๋ ต์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” ์ •๋ง ๋ณด๋žŒ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”.
D. Persuade your boss to try a new approach to a project.
<summary>Suggested Approach
ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š” โ€” ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”...
E. Persuade a friend who says traveling is too expensive.
<summary>Suggested Approach
์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” ๋” ๊ฐ’์ ธ์š”.
F. Use a full empathy โ†’ reality โ†’ conviction sequence on any topic you care about.
<summary>Suggested Approach
์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” โ€” [your point]. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”.
G. Persuade someone to take a break when they're overworking.
<summary>Suggested Approach
ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? ์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ, ์‰ฌ๋ฉด ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๋” ์ž˜๋ผ์š”.
H. Persuade someone who is afraid to speak Korean in public.
<summary>Suggested Approach
์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”. ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”!
I. Use ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด to gently push someone toward your view.
<summary>Suggested Approach
์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์ œ ๋ง์ด ๋งž๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์„ธ์š”? ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”.
J. Give a 60-second persuasive speech on why learning Korean is worth it.
<summary>Suggested Approach
ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” โ€” ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ, ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” ์ •๋ง ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”. ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”!
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Sentence Starters
Starter
Use
์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”
empathy
๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„
empathy bridge
ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด
invite reflection
์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”
fuller picture
์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ
ground in experience
ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”
trust appeal
๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—”
ultimate outcome
๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”
collaborative close
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Speaking Challenge
Choose something you genuinely believe in. Give a 90-second persuasive monologue using: empathy (์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„์š”), a reality reframe (์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”), conviction (์ด๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”), and a collaborative close (๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์š”). Record yourself. Does it feel natural?
์„ค๋“์€ ์‹ธ์›€์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—์š” โ€” ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๋‹ต์„ ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”. โœจ
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