๐ ํ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ์์ฃผ ํท๊ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ด ํํ, Actually vs Currently ์์ ํด๋ถ
๐ ํ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ์์ฃผ ํท๊ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ด ํํ, Actually vs Currently ์์ ํด๋ถ
๐ Stop Mixing Up “Actually” and “Currently”! A Full Guide for Learners
์์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ง์ด ์ง์ ๋๋ ์ค์ ์ค ํ๋๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ก Actually์ Currently์ ๋๋ค.
๋ ๋จ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ก๋ ๋น์ทํ๊ฒ "์ฌ์ค", "ํ์ฌ" ์ ๋๋ก ๋ฒ์ญ๋์ง๋ง, ์ค์ ์์ด์์๋ ์ฐ์์๊ฐ ์์ ํ ๋ค๋ฆ
๋๋ค.
์ด ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ ์ฐ๋ฉด, ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ ๋ง๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ง๋ง ์์ด๋ฏผ์๊ฒ๋ ์ด์ํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์ต๋๋ค.
For Korean learners of English, one of the most common mistakes is confusing “Actually” and “Currently.”
Both may look similar in translation, but they serve different functions in real English usage.
If you mix them up, your sentence may be grammatically correct but sound unnatural to native speakers.
๐ข Actually = ์ฌ์ค์ / In fact
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์ฌ์ค์, ์ค์ ๋ก๋, ์ ๋ง๋ก (fact ๊ฐ์กฐ)
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์๋๋ฐฉ์ ๊ธฐ๋·์์๊ณผ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ด์ฉ์ ๋งํ ๋ ์์ฃผ ์ฌ์ฉ
ํต์ฌ ํฌ์ธํธ:
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์๊ฐ(Time)๊ณผ๋ ๊ด๋ จ ์์
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์ฃผ๋ก ์ ์ , ๊ฐ์กฐ, ๋ฐ์ ์ํฉ์ ์ฐ์
✅ ์ฌ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ์๋ฌธ (Correct)
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Actually, I don’t like coffee.
๐ ์ฌ์ค์, ๋๋ ์ปคํผ๋ฅผ ์ข์ํ์ง ์์. -
He looks young, but actually he’s 40.
๐ ๊ทธ๋ ์ด๋ ค ๋ณด์ด์ง๋ง, ์ฌ์ค ๋งํ์ด๋ค. -
Actually, it’s not true.
๐ ์ฌ์ค์ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ฌ์ค์ด ์๋์ผ.
❌ ์๋ชป๋ ์๋ฌธ (Wrong)
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I’m actually studying English now. (ํ์ฌ๋ผ๋ ๋ป์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฉด ❌)
๐ก Currently = ํ์ฌ / At the moment
์๋ฏธ:
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ํ์ฌ, ์ง๊ธ ์ด ์๊ฐ (time ๊ฐ์กฐ)
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“ํ์ฌ ์ํ”๋ “์ง๊ธ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ์ผ” ๋ฌ์ฌ
ํต์ฌ ํฌ์ธํธ:
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์งํํ ๋์ฌ์ ํจ๊ป ์์ฃผ ์ฐ์ (be + ~ing)
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ํ์ฌ์ ์์ ์ํ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์กฐํ ๋ ์ฌ์ฉ
✅ ์ฌ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ์๋ฌธ (Correct)
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I’m currently studying Korean.
๐ ๋๋ ํ์ฌ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋ถํ๊ณ ์๋ค. -
She is currently working in Seoul.
๐ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ํ์ฌ ์์ธ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์๋ค. -
Currently, there are many people waiting.
๐ ํ์ฌ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋ค.
❌ ์๋ชป๋ ์๋ฌธ (Wrong)
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I’m currently not like coffee. (❌ ์๊ฒฌ/์ฌ์ค์๋ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ง ์์)
๐ ๋น๊ต ํ | Comparison Table
๊ตฌ๋ถ | Actually | Currently |
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ํ๊ตญ์ด ์๋ฏธ | ์ฌ์ค์, ์ค์ ๋ก๋ | ํ์ฌ, ์ง๊ธ |
์ด์ | ์ฌ์ค(fact), ๋ฐ์ , ์ ์ | ์๊ฐ(time), ํ์ฌ ์ํ |
์ฌ์ฉ ์ํฉ | ์์๊ณผ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ์ค ๋งํ๊ธฐ | ์ง๊ธ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ์ผ ๋ฌ์ฌ |
์์ฃผ ์ฐ๋ ํํ | Actually, I think… | I’m currently ~ing |
์๋ชป๋ ์ฌ์ฉ ์ | I’m actually learning Korean. (❌) | Actually, there are many people. (❌) |
๐ก Common Mistakes | ์์ฃผ ํ๋ ์ค์
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❌ I’m actually learning Korean.
✅ I’m currently learning Korean. -
❌ Actually, there are many people here.
✅ Currently, there are many people here. -
✅ Actually, I don’t like spicy food.
(์ฌ์ค์ ๋งค์ด ์์์ ์ ์ข์ํด → ์ฌ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ์ฉ๋ฒ)
๐ฃ️ Practical Dialogues | ์ค์ ๋ํ ์์
๐จ ๋ฏผ์ค: Do you want coffee?
๐ฉ Emma: Actually, I don’t like coffee.
๐ ์ฌ์ค์, ์ปคํผ ์ ์ข์ํด.
๋ํ 2: ํ์ฌ ์ํฉ ์ค๋ช
๐ฉ Emma: Where is Minjun?
๐จ Friend: He’s currently working from home.
๐ ๊ทธ๋ ํ์ฌ ์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์ค์ด์ผ.
๋ํ 3: ํผ๋ํ๊ธฐ ์ฌ์ด ์ํฉ
๐จ ๋ฏผ์ค: I’m actually studying English now. (❌)
๐ฉ Emma: You mean “I’m currently studying English.” (✅)
๐ ํด์ธ ํ์ต์ ๋ฐ์ | Global Learners’ Notes
๋ง์ ์์ด ํ์ต์๋ค(ํนํ ํ๊ตญ·์ผ๋ณธ ํ์ต์)์ด ์ด ๋ ๋จ์ด๋ฅผ ํผ๋ํฉ๋๋ค.
ESL(English as a Second Language) ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ์์๋ ์์ฃผ ๋์ค๋ ์ง๋ฌธ์ธ๋ฐ,
์์ด๋ฏผ๋ค์ ๋์ฒด๋ก ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์กฐ์ธํฉ๋๋ค:
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“Actually” is about facts, not time.
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“Currently” is about time, not facts.
๐ ๋จ์ํ์ง๋ง ์ด ํต์ฌ์ ๊ธฐ์ตํ๋ฉด ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ค์๋ฅผ ํผํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
๐ฃ️ Practice Sentences | ์ฐ์ต ๋ฌธ์ฅ
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Actually, I thought it would be easy.
๐ ์ฌ์ค์ ์ฌ์ธ ์ค ์์๋ค. -
I’m currently watching a K-drama.
๐ ๋๋ ํ์ฌ ํ๊ตญ ๋๋ผ๋ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ค. -
Actually, I’m not tired.
๐ ์ฌ์ค ํผ๊ณคํ์ง ์์. -
He is currently staying in Busan.
๐ ๊ทธ๋ ํ์ฌ ๋ถ์ฐ์ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๊ณ ์๋ค. -
Actually, I didn’t expect that.
๐ ์ฌ์ค ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์์ํ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค.
๐ฏ Takeaway | ํต์ฌ ์ ๋ฆฌ
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Actually = ์ฌ์ค์ (fact ๊ฐ์กฐ)
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Currently = ํ์ฌ (time ๊ฐ์กฐ)
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๋น์ทํด ๋ณด์ฌ๋ ์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅด๋, ๋ฌธ๋งฅ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๊ตฌ๋ถ ํ์!
๐ ๊ธฐ์ต๋ฒ Tip:
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Actually = In fact
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Currently = At the moment
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