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okok
Joined: 24 Sep 2013
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the best is when you ask a question like 'so what do you want to do this weekend?' and then they reply 'well...'
then it stops. well what? |
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mayorhaggar
Joined: 01 Jan 2013
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| Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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ironjohn
Joined: 25 Nov 2009
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My favorite over-used word is WILL. As in, 'this weekend I will go to Busan.'
I love starting out a lesson on future tense by saying that the 'future = will' rule they learned ten years ago is usually completely wrong. They're always so surprised!  |
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BigBuds
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Location: Changwon
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One that makes me chuckle is "Nice to meet you", when I have already met them many times before.
It tends to be the middle aged adjosshies that say it. I guess its the only English greeting they know.
I explained it to a couple of them I know quite well, but every time we meet, I still get "Nice to meet you". |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:40 am Post subject: |
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| "As I know " as in "As I know most foreign teachers are not qualified to teach English in Korea". |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Challenge, used incorrectly naturally, is quite popular these days. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| yodanole wrote: |
| "As I know " as in "As I know most foreign teachers are not qualified to teach English in Korea". |
As in BS spouted by those idiots over at Anti English spectrum.
As in the Korean English teachers all passed an exam to become an English teacher and still can't speak English very well. |
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mayorhaggar
Joined: 01 Jan 2013
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| Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| atwood wrote: |
| Challenge, used incorrectly naturally, is quite popular these days. |
Grand Open!
One plus One (instead of two for one, etc)
Upgrade!
Heading (instead of header, in football/soccer)
English Festival (an English contest based around testing...I really thought there would be games and carnival food...)
Rice Story (restaurant)
Time Story (name on a clock)
Hair Story (hairdresser)
Storyway (7-11 clone)
The elevator in Seoul Tower has the name of "Shocking Elevator." Obviously they think shocking means "surprising" or something like that. To an American, shocking means frightening. To a Brit, it means horrible. Shocking! |
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mayorhaggar
Joined: 01 Jan 2013
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| Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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Also the whole "do you know about ____" stuff reminds me of police procedurals.
"Where were you the night of the 18th?"
"Like I says, I was at home with my wife."
"Do you know about songpyeon?"
"I already told you! I don't know nutting bout no songpyeon!"
"DO YOU KNOW ABOUT KIMCHI?"
"Where's my lawyer? This is a set-up I tells ya!" |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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Not a teacher but for some reason everyone I know says "but on the other hand…", or "but then again…".
It's pretty cool, started saying it too.  |
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meangradin
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| "as you know" must be the winner by a country mile, as you know. |
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rkc76sf
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| mayorhaggar wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
| Challenge, used incorrectly naturally, is quite popular these days. |
Grand Open!
One plus One (instead of two for one, etc)
Upgrade!
Heading (instead of header, in football/soccer)
English Festival (an English contest based around testing...I really thought there would be games and carnival food...)
Rice Story (restaurant)
Time Story (name on a clock)
Hair Story (hairdresser)
Storyway (7-11 clone)
The elevator in Seoul Tower has the name of "Shocking Elevator." Obviously they think shocking means "surprising" or something like that. To an American, shocking means frightening. To a Brit, it means horrible. Shocking! |
To me it sounds literally like an electric shocking elevator. Haven't been to Seoul Tower in 10 years, so wouldn't know they call it that now (or before). |
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit
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| Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| meangradin wrote: |
| "as you know" must be the winner by a country mile, as you know. |
Yesterday at work, the guy who sits in the cubicle next to mine was suddenly all bent out of shape because of an email our boss (a Korean) sent him. The email started out with "As you know, blah blah blah". My coworker was all, "WTF? Why the hell did he expect me to know that???" I chuckled and explained to him how popular that phrase is among Koreans and that our boss surely didn't mean it literally. I even showed him this thread.
I've found that I have a distinct advantage among my coworkers when it comes to understanding what our boss really means to say sometimes. Years of teaching English to Koreans are paying off!  |
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flarsky
Joined: 30 Nov 2013
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| "Where are from?" |
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chungbukdo
Joined: 22 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 1:09 am Post subject: |
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I'm pine and you?
These days, I'm hard
Are you hard? |
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