• 아아 [Ah-ah]

Next time when you order your Iced Americano, say “아아 주세요 [Ah-Ah Juseyo]” (meaning “Ah- ah please”), instead of saying “아이스 아메리카노 주세요” [Ice-Americano Juseyo].

Koreans like to use abbreviations in many situations.

Ice-Americano 아이스아메리카노 is shortened to ‘아아’.

• 따아 [dda-ah]

As you probably guessed, 따아 is 따뜻한 아메리카노 (Hot Americano).

But I don’t recommend you try this if you want to order a ‘Hot Americano’.

It’s usually written this way, but not spoken.

• 얼죽아 [eol-ju-ga]

If you want to order an Iced Americano, you can say ‘Ah-Ah’.

They will understand.

But if you say “따아 please”, there’s a small chance that the server will ask “what?”

That’s probably because Iced-Americano is the most popular daily drink in Korea and the term “ah-ah’ is a lot more commonly used.

We also have a term “얼죽아” meaning “얼어 죽어도 아메리카노”, roughly translated as “I will drink my Iced-Americano even if I am frozen to death”.

People also like to post their Iced Americano with hashtags like “아아” and “얼죽아”.

So, what kind of coffee drinker are you?