Korean Job Discussion Forums

[mindmetoo]

Ah a new one: Gregory. When kids say it, it sounds a bit like ������ (geh goo ri). Frog.

[sheeon]

[There are a whole bunch of playing with words arsing about things you can do to entertain the kids. Someone before mentioned 'room nine', there is also 'rice five', 'chicken touch', with adult bilingual friends you can try out my favourite 'eighteenth century'. The last one is rather rude -or sounds a bit like it might be- don't say it to kids! You may get in trouble!

If anyone can add to the list it'll be cool. There are some 'serious scholars" of the Korean language on this board so they should be able to come up with some funny ones..

I like 'chicken touch' best because my students inspired by my 'rice 5' came up with it by themselves. Language learning should be fun. Teaching should be fun too. Heck life should be fun.[/quote]

so funny. If you're in the Gyeongnam area, you shouldn't name the kids JUDY. �ֵ� is a crude way to describe a person's mouth.
so, if you say JUDY CHICKEN TOUCH : �ֵ����. traslates to "shut your hole".

as for additional funny words, how about.

five zoom? urine
snow four diarreah (can't spell it) �� = snow
fire egg ( this isn't mine but cracked me up none the less)
or just "R" for egg. ��rrrr

[sheeon]

posted twice by mistake

[Cheonmunka]

I think �� �Ծ� means suck your d...k

Crude, I know, sorry.

[khyber]

has anyone written:

ILL HYYHL
<looked celtic at first...then it hit me>
on the board? one of my students wrote it on his book. Of course, looking at him from above, it kinda jumped at me (can you get it?)

Or write
KIN

apparently that's "��" ��written sideways.

sorry...this is off topic a bit...

[tomato]

Cheonmunka, I wish you had come along sooner.
I once named a girl Harriett.
She got teased by her male classmates because the last syllable sounded like ��.
The Korean teachers explained this to me and begged me to change her name to something else.

[chiaa]

I am sittting in Seoul Pub with a friend drinking some beers. After many we came to realization that one of the bartenders was without a doubt the Korean version of Chachi from Happy Days. For the next few hours everytime we wanted a beer we would yell "Hey Chachi another beer please" etc....


At the end of the night we learned that Chachi means p*enis in Korean...

[Mr. BlackCat]

HA! yeah, we had a teacher come to our school named Gilles. That had to change, although we still take the opportunity to call him vagina when ever we can.

[Pak Yu Man]

KIN basically means swearing or foul language. Kinda means "whatever"
Go out and buy a bottle of Kin cider. Good stuff.

Jill is vagina where as Poji is the c word for the same body part.

The best was in a high school class that was teaching "Jack and Jill".

"Every Jack has his Jill"...this has got to be the worst expression you can teach in this country. The boys were asking me where they can get a Jill.

Is it a pretty Jill? Is Jill fun?

Little pervs

[tomato]

Here is a similar thread:

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=19103&highlight=

[jazblanc77]

[tomato]

Never name a student "Mary," either.
It sounds like 메리, which is the Korean equivalent of Fido.
Here is a picture of 메리:



메리, say "멍멍" to our readers.

[Sleepy in Seoul]

Maggie is not good either - it's Korean for catfish. I once named a boy Norm without thinking about it. He wasn't terribly happy and changed his name to Max 2 (there was already another Max in the class).

[tzechuk]

[justagirl]

I had a mother ask to have her daughter's name to be changed from Anna, because it sounded like the Korean word for abortion...if I remember right...