Korean for school · One useful phrase
How to ask for help in Korean at school
Before a new school day, try rehearsing one request together—not a long vocabulary list. You can do the activity without an app.
Try three situations on this page
The phrase
도와주세요.
Dowajuseyo · “Please help me.”
Try it together
- Pick a small situation. Pretend a pencil case has fallen, or a child cannot find a book. Keep it ordinary, not frightening.
- Let the child ask. Point to the object. The child can say “도와주세요” while looking at the grown-up. If speaking feels difficult, say it together once.
- Swap roles. The grown-up asks; the child helps. Then try the request with another object. This is practice, not a pronunciation test.
There is no score and no need to finish a whole lesson. If the child wants to stop, you can return to the phrase another day.
What do you need?
“Help me”, “say it again” and “speak slowly” ask for different things. Try one of these pretend scenes with a grown-up, then open the request. You need no PDF or app.
These are short text requests to an adult. 말씀하다 is an honorific form of “speak”. The Latin text is a romanized reading aid, not an audio model. Hyphens mark syllables.
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Ask for a hand
Put a closed pencil case on a table. Pretend its zip will not open. What help do you want?
Show a request for help
도와주세요
Do-wa-ju-se-yo
Please help me.
Point to the zip and ask. The grown-up offers help with the case. This broad request can start the exchange, but it does not say exactly what is wrong.
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Hear it again
The grown-up says “Put the book here” in a language you both know. Pretend you missed the last word.
Show a request to repeat
다시 말씀해 주세요
Da-si mal-sseum-hae ju-se-yo
Please say it again.
The grown-up repeats the same short line. Here, 다시 asks for another telling; you have not yet asked for a change in pace.
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Hear it more slowly
Use that same short line. This time, pretend you heard it but it went too fast to follow.
Show a request to slow down
천천히 말씀해 주세요
Cheon-cheon-hi mal-sseum-hae ju-se-yo
Please speak slowly.
The grown-up says the line more slowly. 천천히 asks for a slower pace, not just another telling. If a word is still new, ask for more help or use a shared language.
Swap the scene, not the score
Close the two listening requests. The grown-up picks “again” or “more slowly”; the child can say the line, point to it, or ask to say it together. Then swap roles. You can leave both requests open to compare them. There is no score or test to pass.
Use one scene today and return to another if you want. This page does not keep a practice record. For a real need, get help from an adult now rather than waiting to learn a phrase.
What we checked for these scenes
Word meanings were checked against the National Institute of Korean Language’s Basic Korean Dictionary: 돕다 (help), 다시 (again), 천천히 (slowly), and 말씀하다 (honorific “speak”).
The scenes and short requests are our own examples, not copied lessons or an official school script. The dictionary does not endorse this activity. AI assisted with this addition; it has not been tried with children or reviewed by a teacher.
Added October 16, 2026. This check covers the word meanings used here, not the existing PDF pack or current app terms. It is not proof of a learning result or a guide to school procedures.
Printable activities
Both PDFs are free and open without signup or an app.
More scenes to try together
Six everyday scenes, eight phrase cards and a flexible five-day plan.
10‑page PDFFor an urgent need, such as feeling unwell or needing the bathroom, ask a trusted adult right away rather than waiting for practice.
If you want more practice
Korean Bridge is our free, ad-free app for children ages 4–8 who are new to Korean. Activities work offline, with grown-up help in English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Vietnamese. The printable and role-play above stand on their own.
Who made this: PiFl Labs makes Korean Bridge, this guide and the free printables. The family pack’s writing and layout were substantially AI-assisted. We checked its Korean–English phrase pairs against our own curriculum; the pack has not been independently reviewed by an educator or classroom-tested. For school procedures and local support, ask your school or local education office; a home role-play does not replace help from the adults responsible for your child at school.
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