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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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Honestly I think some of the people new to Korea wouldn't know how to live in their home countries either. It's not Korea, it's them.
Stupid questions like; where's the post office? Where can I buy ___? It's like they've never moved in their lives.
Do you really think it's a Korean's job to errand run for you? It's her job to make sure you come to work. Talk about the Princess and the pea. You aren't a CEO. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 6:56 am Post subject: |
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| to what I wrote above, I am assuming that you are here teaching. If not, then forgive my harsh assessment of your English capabilities. |
I already taught English in Korea before. Don't worry. I might try it again. This time, in French.
English is a dead language to a French speaker like me anyways.  |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:08 am Post subject: |
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[quote="NohopeSeriously"]
| nero wrote: |
| to what I wrote above, I am assuming that you are here teaching. If not, then forgive my harsh assessment of your English capabilities. |
I already taught English in Korea before. Don't worry. I might try it again. This time, in French.
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'There are many people who should never teach English but it's not wrong for them' Huh?
Maybe not wrong for them but what the hell are they passing on to students who pay good money to be taught correctly. |
Teaching English in Korea is itself wrong. Wrong as in Chinese will replace English in Korea.
I previously said this before: having a bad English grammar is a blessing in disguise. Never forget this. You can trust a faithful bilingual French-English speaker like me. 
But as usual, English is a dead language to a French speaker like me anyways. |
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English Matt
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:03 am Post subject: |
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[quote="NohopeSeriously"]
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| nero wrote: |
| to what I wrote above, I am assuming that you are here teaching. If not, then forgive my harsh assessment of your English capabilities. |
I already taught English in Korea before. Don't worry. I might try it again. This time, in French.
| nero wrote: |
'There are many people who should never teach English but it's not wrong for them' Huh?
Maybe not wrong for them but what the hell are they passing on to students who pay good money to be taught correctly. |
Teaching English in Korea is itself wrong. Wrong as in Chinese will replace English in Korea.
I previously said this before: having a bad English grammar is a blessing in disguise. Never forget this. You can trust a faithful bilingual French-English speaker like me.
But as usual, English is a dead language to a French speaker like me anyways. |
Cela n'a aucun sens. La communication en langues �trang�res exige une connaissance d'une grammaire. |
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nero
Joined: 11 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="NohopeSeriously"]
| NohopeSeriously wrote: |
| nero wrote: |
| to what I wrote above, I am assuming that you are here teaching. If not, then forgive my harsh assessment of your English capabilities. |
I already taught English in Korea before. Don't worry. I might try it again. This time, in French.
| nero wrote: |
'There are many people who should never teach English but it's not wrong for them' Huh?
Maybe not wrong for them but what the hell are they passing on to students who pay good money to be taught correctly. |
Teaching English in Korea is itself wrong. Wrong as in Chinese will replace English in Korea.
I previously said this before: having a bad English grammar is a blessing in disguise. Never forget this. You can trust a faithful bilingual French-English speaker like me.
But as usual, English is a dead language to a French speaker like me anyways. |
I think I spoke to some of your ex students last night. They were in a 7/11 and they said "Chinese replacing English Korea, will." the girl chased me around the store, shrieking: "Kudos to you! kudos to you."
It was all very odd. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="NohopeSeriously"]
| NohopeSeriously wrote: |
| nero wrote: |
| to what I wrote above, I am assuming that you are here teaching. If not, then forgive my harsh assessment of your English capabilities. |
I already taught English in Korea before. Don't worry. I might try it again. This time, in French.
| nero wrote: |
'There are many people who should never teach English but it's not wrong for them' Huh?
Maybe not wrong for them but what the hell are they passing on to students who pay good money to be taught correctly. |
Teaching English in Korea is itself wrong. Wrong as in Chinese will replace English in Korea.
I previously said this before: having a bad English grammar is a blessing in disguise. Never forget this. You can trust a faithful bilingual French-English speaker like me.
But as usual, English is a dead language to a French speaker like me anyways. |
So which Chinese will replace English? Mandarin? If Wikipedia is to be believed many Chinese in China learn Mandarin as a second language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_China |
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Cerulean
Joined: 19 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:37 am Post subject: |
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If I was responsible for someone in my country I would help them as much as I could. Sure, I might complain about it but I would help.
If I called the internet company to cancel the service and was told about the 487.00 fee or some other issue, I would find out more information instead of saying thanks and handing the issue back to the person I was responsible for.
I can communicate just fine with someone in person but my cold calling Korean seems to get me nowhere. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 3:17 am Post subject: |
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How many people here have considered the Korean teachers perspective at having to work (usually) with a fresh grad with zero teaching experience while completing their (Korean teachers) own FULL TIME teaching duties, deal with parents, grading, curriculum planning, teaching along with the pressures that come from management about students doing well (link to the schools image)?
Take that teacher and then wonder how they feel working with an inexperienced foreigner who may have great ideas but who has no idea what the program is like in the school or what the impact of his decisions in the class will have. Finally consider that if the FT screws up, the KT gets the brunt of the fallout from management and parents...
All that being said, there are rotten Korean Co-teachers out there to be sure.
Carry on. |
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