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jamesteacho
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: Non of your business/somewhere in shibuya Japan
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 Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:57 am Post subject: How is your Korean? |
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Do English teachers in Korea make effort to learn Korean at all? There are discrimination if you're unable to speak fluent Japanese as a "gaijin"
Same as back home, in America, if you're unable to speak fluent English they also take bunch of crap from the natives or even from their own ethnic groups
Isn't how things are in real life?
in Japan there are a lot of teachers who make effort to speak Japanese to Japanese people... a lot of Japanese people will simply reply in Japanese when foreigner tries to initiate conversation in English...
Well.. so how is Korea? how is your Korean? |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:05 am Post subject: |
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| Better than your English. |
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Cerriowen
Joined: 03 Jun 2006
Location: Pocheon
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:52 am Post subject: |
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My Korean is wonderful, but a bit hung over today from partying last night.
Are you drunk? |
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Papa Smurf
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:00 am Post subject: Re: How is your Korean? |
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| jamesteacho wrote: |
in Japan there are a lot of teachers who make effort to speak Japanese to Japanese people... a lot of Japanese people will simply reply in Japanese when foreigner tries to initiate conversation in English...
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i'd say this is the exact opposite in korea. if they know any english whatsoever, they will try to use it. you speak korean, they will answer in english. just one recent example, i was stood by the subway station, and some guy tried to make conversation. "Age what?" "Country is?" etc where the best attempts he could make. I politely (i think) tried to make some simple Q&A in korean, because my korean, even though basic, was clearly better than his english. he was having none of it. he just kept ignoring me and babbling on in broken english. |
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phoneboothface
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:30 am Post subject: |
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My Korean is better than your English, too. And more and more my Korean is better than my English, as well.  |
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PatrickBateman
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
Location: American Gardens Building, West 81st Street
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:58 am Post subject: |
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You're American?
Please say it isn't so.... |
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