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[mokpochica]

When I first met my boyfriend I had already had Korean language classes and had been living with a Korean homestay family for 6 months, so I already had some Korean skills and wanted to learn more. At that point he was very shy about speaking English too. I think at first we spoke about 30% Korean 40% Konglish and 30% English.

I moved back to the States for a year and we continued to date and at that time we communicated a lot through e-mail and phone conversations. E-mails were about 98% in English and phone conversations were about 50/50. His English improved a lot then, and although it's always been better than my Korean, now it's much more obvious.

Nowadays (back in Korea) we speak Korean about 25% of the time--this is pretty much whenever we want to communicate simple things, or he is driving, or we are out with friends that don't speak English. We speak English for the remaining 75% of the time. We also do a lot of that 'I speak English and he answers in Korean/ He speaks Korean I answer in English' thing. Once in a while we also study together, but more often it's him who gets my help than the other way around---partially because it's really important for him to learn English these days since we are planning on moving to the States soon.

[wormholes101]