Choose a topic, practice it, and we will work on it together in class.
| English | Korean | Example |
|---|---|---|
| drill | ์ ์ ํ๋ จ / ํ๋ จ | We practice drill on the parade ground every morning. |
| formation | ๋ํ / ๋์ด | The cadets stood in formation before breakfast. |
| barracks | ๋ง์ฌ / ์ํ๊ด | The barracks must be clean before inspection. |
| mess hall | ๊ตฐ ์๋น / ์๋น | We eat three meals a day in the mess hall. |
| physical training | ์ฒด๋ ฅ ๋จ๋ จ / ์ฒด๋ ฅ ํ๋ จ | Physical training starts at six every morning. |
| obstacle course | ์ฅ์ ๋ฌผ ์ฝ์ค / ์ ๊ฒฉ ์ฝ์ค | He finished the obstacle course in record time. |
| inspection | ๊ฒ์ด / ์ ๊ฒ | The room must be perfect for tomorrow's inspection. |
| uniform | ๊ตฐ๋ณต / ์ ๋ณต | Keep your uniform clean and pressed at all times. |
| salute | ๊ฒฝ๋ก | Cadets salute officers when they meet them outside. |
| roll call | ์ ํธ / ์ธ์ ์ ๊ฒ | Everyone must be present for morning roll call. |
| leave | ํด๊ฐ | He went home on leave for two weeks. |
| pass | ์ธ์ถ์ฆ / ์ธ๋ฐ | She got a weekend pass to visit her family. |
| curfew | ํต๊ธ / ๊ท์ ์๊ฐ | The curfew for cadets is ten at night. |
| discipline | ๊ตฐ๊ธฐ / ๊ท์จ | Discipline is the foundation of military life. |
| instructor | ๊ต๊ด | Our instructor explained the exercise very clearly. |
| classmate | ๋๊ธฐ์ / ๋๊ธฐ | My classmate helped me study for the English exam. |
| oath | ์ ์ | The new cadets took the oath together. |
| graduation | ์กธ์ / ์๊ด์ | My whole family came to my graduation. |
| deployment | ํ๋ณ / ๋ฐฐ์น | His first deployment lasted six months overseas. |
| duty | ์๋ฌด / ๊ทผ๋ฌด | It is my duty to report on time. |
| schedule | ์ผ์ / ์ผ๊ณผํ | The training schedule changes every week. |
| training | ํ๋ จ / ๊ต์ก | The training was hard but very useful. |
| boot camp | ์ ๋ณ ํ๋ จ์ | Boot camp teaches recruits the basics of military life. |
| march | ํ๊ตฐ / ํ์ง | We will march ten kilometers with full packs. |
| push-up | ํ๊ตฝํํด๊ธฐ | He can do fifty push-ups without stopping. |
| sit-up | ์๋ชธ์ผ์ผํค๊ธฐ | The fitness test includes two minutes of sit-ups. |
| reveille | ๊ธฐ์ ๋ํ / ๊ธฐ์ | Reveille sounds at five thirty every morning. |
| lights out | ์๋ฑ | Lights out is at ten, so sleep early. |
| bunk | ์นจ์ / ์ด์ธต ์นจ๋ | Make your bunk neatly before you leave the room. |
| footlocker | ๊ฐ์ธ ์ฌ๋ฌผํจ / ๊ด๋ฌผ๋ | Keep your footlocker organized and locked. |
| latrine | ํ์ฅ์ค (๊ตฐ๋ ์ฉ์ด) | The latrine must be cleaned every evening. |
| guard duty | ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ๊ทผ๋ฌด / ๋ณด์ด ๊ทผ๋ฌด | I have guard duty from midnight until two. |
| cadence | ๊ตฐ๊ฐ ๊ตฌํธ / ๊ตฌ๋ น | The platoon sang a cadence while running. |
| honor code | ๋ช ์ ๊ท์จ / ๋ช ์ ์ ๋ | The honor code says a cadet never lies. |
| demerit | ๋ฒ์ | He received a demerit for being late. |
| upperclassman | ์๊ธ์ / ์ ๋ฐฐ ์๋ | An upperclassman showed us around the academy. |
| underclassman | ํ๊ธ์ / ํ๋ฐฐ ์๋ | Every underclassman must greet the seniors politely. |
| fitness test | ์ฒด๋ ฅ ๊ฒ์ | The fitness test includes running, push-ups, and sit-ups. |
| regulation | ๊ท์ | Your haircut must follow the regulation. |
| morale | ์ฌ๊ธฐ | Good food and rest keep morale high. |
| teamwork | ํ์ํฌ / ํ๋ | Teamwork helped us finish the course together. |
| leadership | ๋ฆฌ๋์ญ / ํต์๋ ฅ | The academy teaches leadership through daily practice. |
| endurance | ์ง๊ตฌ๋ ฅ | Long runs build endurance for the field. |
| dormitory | ๊ธฐ์์ฌ | The cadets live in the dormitory during the semester. |
| semester | ํ๊ธฐ | The spring semester ends in early June. |
| exam | ์ํ | I studied all night for the English exam. |
| academics | ํ๊ณผ ๊ต์ก / ํ์ | Cadets balance academics, sports, and military training. |
| roommate | ๋ฃธ๋ฉ์ดํธ / ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐฉ ๋๊ธฐ | My roommate wakes up earlier than I do. |
| ceremony | ์์ / ๊ธฐ๋ ์ | The flag ceremony takes place every Friday. |
| parade | ์ด๋ณ์ / ๋ถ์ด | The cadets practiced for the graduation parade. |
| attention | ์ฐจ๋ ท | Stand at attention when an officer enters. |
| fall in | ์งํฉ / ์ ๋ ฌ (๊ตฌ๋ น) | The sergeant shouted, and we quickly fell in. |
| fall out | ํค์ณ / ํด์ฐ (๊ตฌ๋ น) | After the announcement, we were told to fall out. |
| at ease | ์ฌ์ด | The captain said, and everyone relaxed, at ease. |
| dismissed | ํด์ฐ | The class is dismissed, see you tomorrow. |
| yes, sir | ๋ค, ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค (์๊ด์๊ฒ) | He answered loudly, and clearly, yes, sir. |
| permission to speak | ๋ฐ์ธ ํ๊ฐ ์์ฒญ | Sir, may I have permission to speak? |
| about face | ๋ค๋ก ๋์ | On the command about face, turn around sharply. |
| forward march | ์์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ | The platoon stepped off at forward march. |
| carry on | ๊ณ์ํด / ํ๋ ์ผ ๊ณ์ | The officer nodded and told us to carry on. |
| as you were | ์์์น / ํ๋ ๋๋ก | He said as you were, so we continued working. |
| double time | ๊ตฌ๋ณด๋ก / ๋ฐ์ด ๊ฐ | We moved at double time to the field. |
| halt | ์ ์๋ฆฌ์ ์ / ์ ์ง | The squad stopped instantly at the command halt. |
| left face | ์ขํฅ์ข | On left face, everyone turned at the same time. |
| right face | ์ฐํฅ์ฐ | The command right face turns the formation right. |
| sound off | ๋ฒํธ ๋ถ์ฌ / ํฌ๊ฒ ์ธ์ณ | Sound off with your name and hometown. |