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[Smithington]

It's like nails on a chalkboard. My co-teacher is a nice person but she does the loud, rapid-fire, yappy, yell talking thing like most Koreans. She's having a conversation with another young female teacher as I type and it's all I can do to avoid standinhg up and walking out of the room.

The strange thing is, when she switches to English her volume goes down markedly. I've noticed this with most other Koreans too. I will be talking to a co-teacher in English and her voice will be pleasant. Then she switches to Korean to talk to someone else and it's just awful. Strange.

[PigeonFart]

People's volume usually drop when they speak foreign languages. (Doesn't yours?)
Being unsure of word order, grammar, and pronunciation tends to me people want to avoid being in the spotlight. So they'll speak more quietly. One of my co-workers actually whispered when he spoke English. His English was bad though, so i can see why he didn't want the other teachers hearing him.

[Chaparrastique]

koreans learn to whine from an early age.

You can hear that roving see-saw whine a mile away as a five-year-old orders her mom around. It sounds like a fishing reel, or a car engine revving.

[metalhead]

It's not a pleasant language at all but not as grating on the ears as Vietnamese at least, now that's a painful tongue.

[schwa]

50 million Koreans all talk the same? Just another ignorant thread from a remarkably hate-filled poster.

[Stu_miller]

I hate the way you write.

I'm sure that many Koreans are irritated by your voice or, more likely, just don't care.

Bitter, twisted expats: "Promoting tolerance and acceptance at a forum board near you"

[3DR]

[Stain]

[Stu_miller]

I'm a hating, apologist apologist-hater

[byrddogs]

[Died By Bear]

I myself am at 65% hater, 15% apologist, and 25% Old grouch.

[Smithington]

Yesterday half an hour after my original post I hear a female yelling into a microphone outside on the school grounds. It's a sports event and my co-teacher has gone full Joseph Geobbels yelling into a microphone to students standing ten feet in front of her. As I write, at my second school, some ajoshie (probably the vice-principle) is also yelling into a microphone. To block it out I decide to listen to some classical music on youtube, but before I can listen to it I have to listen to another ajoshie yelling into the camera about the latest Ramen brand. Last night I was awakened three times by people yell-talking outside my window or in the apartment hallway. On the way to work this morning, underslept, I have to endure an ajumma having a yell conversation with the bus driver. Of course, rather than requesting that she talk more quietly, he willingly engages in yell talking with her. This went on for at least ten minutes and only stopped when I asked them to tone it down.

It's ridiculous. Why can't they talk at a normal tone? Even as I write my eardrums are reverberating from the yelling into the microphone outside. I would like to go downstairs to participate in whatever the kids are up to, but I just couldn't endure the yelling. Who the hell 'yells' instructions to young children with a microphone set at maximum? Maybe Hitler, but not many others.

No wonder Koreans are unwelcome at so many hotels and resorts overseas, and have such bad reputations with airline staff. Just too damned loud and inconsiderate of others. And the language.

[byrddogs]

I've got a younger co-teacher that yell-talks constantly in the English teacher's office. It doesn't matter if there are only a couple of people in the room and she is standing 2 feet away from the person she is talking to or standing in the middle of a full office of people trying to get their work done. "BLAH BLAH BLAH, listen to me". That is annoying, but nowhere near as annoying as the propencity to bust through the door yell talking at every turn. It doesn't matter if who she is blabbing at is already engaged in a conversation with someone else, she must be the center of attention and heard before anyone else can continue. TG she is outta there in 6 more months.

With that being said, I'd like to mention that everyone else in the office doesn't do this other than a male American co-worker that has a tendency to speak loudly from time to time. He's rude about other things as well and equally annoying.

[Chaparrastique]

[Captain Corea]

I've yelled back - they're often surprised, and realize how loud they are.