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Do you teach your Korean friends incorrect phrases?
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widespread123



Joined: 12 Jun 2007

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:16 am    Post subject: Do you teach your Korean friends incorrect phrases? Reply with quote

Within my group of friends we always teach our Korean friends really funny idioms.

I have this Korean female friend who is just so cute and innocent (think Daegu conservative) who was yawning while eating Galbi after a day on the beach in Pohang. We told her that she should say she "needs an 8-ball." Later that night we went to the fireworks festival and we meet up with some other waygooks. This girl is hanging out with my friend, yawns and says, with a completely straight face, "Oh, I really need and 8-ball." My friend spit out his Hite in laughter. We corrected her but I am still laughing about it the next day.

Mean? Immature? Probably, but it was worth the laugh Laughing

any other funny stories?
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LuckyNomad



Joined: 28 May 2007

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My friend is an english major in Kangwan National University. I decided that we needed to work on getting her to sound natural. So I taught her phrases such as
I kicked your ass. This _____ sucks. You suck. You suck at____. Whatever. Your full of shit. This is a piece of shit. This tastes like shit.
What the hell?! Basically everything that is not covered in regular classes yet compromise half of our spoken language.

It's funny listening to her say it in her plain robotic tone. " That car is a piece of shit."
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kermo



Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My Korean gal-pal is going out with her first foreign guy, and needs to learn a little casual English, so I quite enjoyed teaching her "Hell yeah," and "Hell no." So simple yet so effective.
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VirginIslander



Joined: 24 May 2006
Location: Busan

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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My friend is an english major in Kangwan National University. I decided that we needed to work on getting her to sound natural. So I taught her phrases such as
I kicked your ass. This _____ sucks. You suck. You suck at____. Whatever. Your full of *beep*. This is a piece of *beep*. This tastes like *beep*.
What the hell?! Basically everything that is not covered in regular classes yet compromise half of our spoken language.

It's funny listening to her say it in her plain robotic tone. " That car is a piece of *beep*."


Natural?

You can take the ESL Teacher out of the Trailer Park but your cant take the Trailer Park out of the ESL Teacher.
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postfundie



Joined: 28 May 2004

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I told my gfriend that instead of 'pad' or 'sanitary napkin' we say diaper.......I'd forgotten about it but then the next month she says she needs a diaper.....
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oneofthesarahs



Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Location: Sacheon City

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I taught one of my friends to say "B*tch, please." I forgot all about it until I suggested to him that he should give up learning English and go for Russian instead. He gave me the most derisive look, and said, "B*tch please." It was perfect. I was so proud.

I have another friend who likes to say "I'm a nasty motherf*cker." I have no idea who taught him that one, but it kills me every time.
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garykasparov



Joined: 27 May 2007

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've taught one to say the following:

(1) Pimp that bitch
(2) Swing on deeez nutz
(3) 187 on the mother fucking block
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seoulman1



Joined: 02 Feb 2007
Location: Jamsil

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

what does it mean? "I need an 8-ball"?
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uberscheisse



Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

it's even better if you teach someone to say "i spent nigh on a fortnight puking up me wee guts after drinking that jar of pickled abortion".

phonetically, it's easy to pull off. your protege merely needs to memorize a series of syllables. then when he/she finally meets the zimbabwean ambassador, you get your big laugh.
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Passions



Joined: 31 May 2006

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, what does, I need an 8-ball mean?

Which country is this slang from? I don't think it's American.
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mateomiguel



Joined: 16 May 2005

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

8 ball is cocaine isn't it?

I taught my elderly semi-retired coworker to say "that's some sweet action!" Unfortunately he doesn't quite get when is an appropriate time to say it, and a lot of strange things have been dubbed sweet action by the guy, including his very own granddaughter.
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browneyedgirl



Joined: 17 Jul 2007

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oneofthesarahs wrote:
I taught one of my friends to say "B*tch, please." I forgot all about it until I suggested to him that he should give up learning English and go for Russian instead. He gave me the most derisive look, and said, "B*tch please." It was perfect. I was so proud.

I have another friend who likes to say "I'm a nasty motherf*cker." I have no idea who taught him that one, but it kills me every time.


That's priceless Laughing
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widespread123



Joined: 12 Jun 2007

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

B*tch please !!! j/k Cool

8-ball is slang for an 8th ounce of cocaine or crack rock.
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MANDRL



Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Location: South Korea

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a really sweet coworker who one day said, "I'm rich biiitch!" out of nowhere, of course it was hilarious. She spent a few years in the US, so I am guessing that is where she picked that up.
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jaredbahama



Joined: 16 May 2007
Location: blue line

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"i need to break the seal"

-taught that to a korean friend over beers.


(in case you don't know the expression: you know how you can drink beers for a while before having to go to the bathroom. but once you go that first time, you need to go pretty frequently after that. well, going that first time is called, "breaking the seal")
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