Deneviuos my point is that it's a bit insensitive and extremely immature to maintain this thread. At least they are making an effort to speak English. It's one thing to have this discussion over drinks with friends but quite another to do it on a site that Korean teachers frequent. I guess I expected more from my fellow teachers but once again I feel let down.
At least they are making an effort to speak English.
I wonder if Koreans dedicate threads to make fun of our Korean.
QuoteDeneviuos my point is that it's a bit insensitive and extremely immature to maintain this thread. At least they are making an effort to speak English. It's one thing to have this discussion over drinks with friends but quite another to do it on a site that Korean teachers frequent. as i said before, i try and speak korean and sometimes they laugh. just today i was trying to say 국술원 in class, and all the kids, including the teacher, laughed. their laughter weren't knives ripping my guts out. my pronuciation is wrong, and they think it's amusing. i think i'll live to see another day despite their laughter.anyway, don't treat korean adults like they're kids. if they're reading this and feel slighted, let them speak up. this parental protective personna some foreigners display on this website towards koreans is a bit odd.
Deneviuos my point is that it's a bit insensitive and extremely immature to maintain this thread. At least they are making an effort to speak English. It's one thing to have this discussion over drinks with friends but quite another to do it on a site that Korean teachers frequent.
Quote from: Denevius on June 02, 2011, 12:36:54 pmQuoteDeneviuos my point is that it's a bit insensitive and extremely immature to maintain this thread. At least they are making an effort to speak English. It's one thing to have this discussion over drinks with friends but quite another to do it on a site that Korean teachers frequent. as i said before, i try and speak korean and sometimes they laugh. just today i was trying to say 국술원 in class, and all the kids, including the teacher, laughed. their laughter weren't knives ripping my guts out. my pronuciation is wrong, and they think it's amusing. i think i'll live to see another day despite their laughter.anyway, don't treat korean adults like they're kids. if they're reading this and feel slighted, let them speak up. this parental protective personna some foreigners display on this website towards koreans is a bit odd.I totally understand where you're coming from. I get the same thing at my school. I just see a difference here. It's one thing to have a laugh together, but this thread just comes across a bit wrong to me. I know my co-teachers study English so hard and most Koreans are so self conscious about their English abilities. I don't like the idea of them coming across this and thinking that we are laughing behind their back. It'll do nothing for their confidence and will probably make them more nervous to speak to us. On the other hand, I can totally imagine one of my co-teachers cracking up at some of the posts on here. Depends on the person I guess. I'm not trying to be protective at all, I just think we need to remember that this isn't a foreigner only site whether we like it or not. By the way, I am so guilty of talking with my friends about the funny things I hear in class! I just do it privately.
On Wednesday:"Today we have no first period because of the disabled and retard."
Not really a comment but one time I was playing pictionary with my students and just to spice things up I asked my co teacher to draw so that the students can guess her drawings... with a smirk on her face she flipped me off in front of the whole class... I was petrified for a while and Im still confused if the middle finger is bad or if nobody cares in Korea...