I am having the problem that I was adopted from Korea, and so when I met my principal, he started laughing because he said that my face looks Korean but he couldn't believe that I couldn't speak Korean. I was also asked more than 5 times when the other Korean teachers were talking if I could understand what they were saying. I said no each time, but I started to get paranoid that they were talking about me in Korean. Anyone else had the latter problem?
My CT is studying for TEPS and it has some older idioms in it. Today (while we were brushing our teeth), she wrote on the board:hen party (women)_?_ party (men)I looked at it for a moment, knowing she wanted the opposite of a hen party. My eyes got big and I about choked on my toothpaste from laughing. After rinsing, I told her the opposite word of 'hen' and it's slang meaning. (And, told her I didn't know the correct answer.) She told me the TEPS book called a men's gathering a 'stag party' (I've never heard the expression)
Quote from: dorfgook on April 11, 2011, 12:28:03 amMy one co-teacher keeps excusing her english ability and has even gone as far one day as to mention the word Konglish. I told her that yes, Korea is developing its own dialect, just like nay other country and that its ok.The term "konglish" goes back more than a decade. In China, It's "Chinglish". My question is - is it "Janglish" in Japan?
My one co-teacher keeps excusing her english ability and has even gone as far one day as to mention the word Konglish. I told her that yes, Korea is developing its own dialect, just like nay other country and that its ok.
I have been in Korea a week today. That makes two days at each of my schools so far.Everyone, teachers and students, reacts with huge gasps when I say I'm from South Africa. I guessed this is because they all have a very stereotyped image in their heads of Africa and Africans, but today my co-teacher laid it out for me in no uncertain terms:"Like me, they thought you were going to be just a black person." Er. Political correctness fail :D
Quote from: cragesmure on April 11, 2011, 01:50:11 amQuote from: dorfgook on April 11, 2011, 12:28:03 amMy one co-teacher keeps excusing her english ability and has even gone as far one day as to mention the word Konglish. I told her that yes, Korea is developing its own dialect, just like nay other country and that its ok.The term "konglish" goes back more than a decade. In China, It's "Chinglish". My question is - is it "Janglish" in Japan?In Japan it's called Japlish, although for obvious reasons some people, both Japanese and Western, don't like that word. In Singapore it's Singlish.
My Co Teacher told me she has been searching for a husband for 2 years and she cannot find one.She then asked me to set her up with any of my male friends. To this I replied, "But dont you want a Korean husband??" Her reply was "No, I am Global!!"
I'm an African American woman here teaching in Korea. Once my Ct once said to me- CT " oh, I teach with another woman like you, she looks just like you. Me "oh wow, really?" - Then I saw the girl... the only thing we had in common was skin color ( not even that we were the same color) ... other than that ... NADA! -I guess all black people look alike here lmao
Quote from: Trose89 on September 30, 2011, 02:41:52 pmI'm an African American woman here teaching in Korea. Once my Ct once said to me- CT " oh, I teach with another woman like you, she looks just like you. Me "oh wow, really?" - Then I saw the girl... the only thing we had in common was skin color ( not even that we were the same color) ... other than that ... NADA! -I guess all black people look alike here lmaoDon't worry; all white people look alike here too. I'm Italian, so, dark hair, brown eyes, and a teacher showed me a picture of some guy with blondish, and pointed to the picture and me saying, "Same, same."