Using 죠/지
Which one of these is correct, or sounds more natural?
- 여기에 살고 있죠?
- 여기에 살고 있나?
I feel like the second one is more natural, but the first one is just a thought, because the speaker and listener could be infront of the listener's house or something. ㅎㅎ
The trans for the first one could be:
- "You live here, right?"
and the second one could be:
- "Do you live here?"

Question

Using 죠/지
Which one of these is correct, or sounds more natural?
- 여기에 살고 있죠? 
- 여기에 살고 있나?
I feel like the second one is more natural, but the first one is just a thought, because the speaker and listener could be infront of the listener's house or something. ㅎㅎ
The trans for the first one could be: 
- "You live here, right?"
and the second one could be: 
- "Do you live here?"

Answer

- 여기에 살고 있죠? = "You live here, right?" is correct.

- 여기에 살고 있나? is less frequently used because it sounds like it's for a self-doubting question when you can't ask it to the person related directly.

- To express "Do you live here?" as a 1:1 question to the person, I would say "여기(에) 살고 있니?" or "여기(에) 살아?" or "여기(에) 사니?" 
You can replace 여기에 by 여기. '여기에 = 여기 = here '

Answer

Both are possible. The first one is more formal and usually used to talk with a person to whom you need to be polite. On the other hand, the second one is more likely to be used casually or seems to be talking to yourself. The translations you did are okay but you don't need to tell them seperately for translation because both are almost the same.

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