I sure do love it when an entire room full of people laughs at my pronunciation mistakes. It definitely helps get me excited about learning Korean.
Quote from: Mister Tim on November 07, 2016, 11:26:44 amI sure do love it when an entire room full of people laughs at my pronunciation mistakes. It definitely helps get me excited about learning Korean. Hope that changees for you soon
In the cafeteria, I'm eating my own homemade lunch.Principal: What kind of rice is that?Me: Basmati rice. Have you tried it?Principal: No, you should eat Korean rice.Me: ...Principal: Korean rice is better than any other rice, it's good for your health.On the tennis courts, on Saturday. An older gentleman decides to approach me and start a conversation.Guy: HelloMe: HiGuy: Do you know, Korea is 11th biggest economy in the world.Me: ...OkThis type of things happens regularly. I find it amusing that at some point, many Koreans taught themselves that it's somehow a good idea to start a conversation like this.
Current rant: when I provide helpful information, but nobody fact-checks and all my incredibly clever jokes go completely unnoticed.
Not really a rant, but there's a pretty good conversation going on about mac n cheese in the random ramblings thread : Moonbrie, have you had lunch? : I was about to eat these crackers [other cot] gave me : Eat this bun : What's in the bun? : Red bean : I don't really like red bean. I'll eat my crackers. : but red bean is good for our health! : I will eat black bean, yellow bean, white bean, but not red beanThat got a chuckle out of her. But then she continued badgering me to eat an especially questionable looking banana, claiming it was just "ripe" when I tried to point it out. I ate half of it and she looked like she wanted to say something about me not finishing it but held her tongue, thankfully.
I made that same mistake with university aged students. What an uproar. Same format as you mentioned:EAST SEA(Sea of Japn)A female student got particularly firey about it. I'm long past the period of actually trying to have an adult discussion about it. Just turn off the screen and move on.
Quote from: zola on November 07, 2016, 01:34:42 pmI made that same mistake with university aged students. What an uproar. Same format as you mentioned:EAST SEA(Sea of Japn)A female student got particularly firey about it. I'm long past the period of actually trying to have an adult discussion about it. Just turn off the screen and move on. I put a post-it note on the screen over where it said 'Sea of Japan'. I'm definitely experienced enough to know not to try to discuss it, but I was still dismayed.
Quote from: Aqvm on November 07, 2016, 01:39:20 pmQuote from: zola on November 07, 2016, 01:34:42 pmI made that same mistake with university aged students. What an uproar. Same format as you mentioned:EAST SEA(Sea of Japn)A female student got particularly firey about it. I'm long past the period of actually trying to have an adult discussion about it. Just turn off the screen and move on. I put a post-it note on the screen over where it said 'Sea of Japan'. I'm definitely experienced enough to know not to try to discuss it, but I was still dismayed.I've shown multiple times "Sea of Japan". I explain in English that is what it is called. If you are speaking English and you want people to know what you are talking about, that's what you call it. In Korean it's East sea. Then I just let them cry and get angry like a bunch of 5 year olds.
Quote from: z80 on November 07, 2016, 01:49:03 pmQuote from: Aqvm on November 07, 2016, 01:39:20 pmQuote from: zola on November 07, 2016, 01:34:42 pmI made that same mistake with university aged students. What an uproar. Same format as you mentioned:EAST SEA(Sea of Japn)A female student got particularly firey about it. I'm long past the period of actually trying to have an adult discussion about it. Just turn off the screen and move on. I put a post-it note on the screen over where it said 'Sea of Japan'. I'm definitely experienced enough to know not to try to discuss it, but I was still dismayed.I've shown multiple times "Sea of Japan". I explain in English that is what it is called. If you are speaking English and you want people to know what you are talking about, that's what you call it. In Korean it's East sea. Then I just let them cry and get angry like a bunch of 5 year olds.Somewhere along the line, news spread that the USA had made a law to make "Sea of Japan" illegal. So when I said "this is what we are taught in geography class, this is the English name (as well as other languages, Mer du Japon etc)" they fought back. No! Many countries changed! Sea of Japan illegal!Upon further investigation, one state in the USA, Virginia, decided after lobbying from the local Korean ccommunity that schools had to print both Sea of Japan/East Sea together, in textbooks.
Upon further investigation, one state in the USA, Virginia, decided after lobbying from the local Korean ccommunity that schools had to print both Sea of Japan/East Sea together, in textbooks.
Quote from: moonbrie on November 07, 2016, 12:35:09 pmNot really a rant, but there's a pretty good conversation going on about mac n cheese in the random ramblings thread : Moonbrie, have you had lunch? : I was about to eat these crackers [other cot] gave me : Eat this bun : What's in the bun? : Red bean : I don't really like red bean. I'll eat my crackers. : but red bean is good for our health! : I will eat black bean, yellow bean, white bean, but not red beanThat got a chuckle out of her. But then she continued badgering me to eat an especially questionable looking banana, claiming it was just "ripe" when I tried to point it out. I ate half of it and she looked like she wanted to say something about me not finishing it but held her tongue, thankfully.You got something against red?In all seriousness, I love red bean. We can't be friends. At the same time, I also don't like questionable-looking bananas. We can be friends.
Quote from: zola on November 07, 2016, 02:06:09 pmUpon further investigation, one state in the USA, Virginia, decided after lobbying from the local Korean ccommunity that schools had to print both Sea of Japan/East Sea together, in textbooks.And then over the next few months, textbooks in the American North West were mysteriously required to label that same body of water as "The Sea of Japan, a Globally Established Name". *** I just discovered that it's possible to hyperlink images! New doors to sarcasm have opened for me!
Quote from: kyndo on November 07, 2016, 02:14:55 pmQuote from: zola on November 07, 2016, 02:06:09 pmUpon further investigation, one state in the USA, Virginia, decided after lobbying from the local Korean ccommunity that schools had to print both Sea of Japan/East Sea together, in textbooks.And then over the next few months, textbooks in the American North West were mysteriously required to label that same body of water as "The Sea of Japan, a Globally Established Name". *** I just discovered that it's possible to hyperlink images! New doors to sarcasm have opened for me!Yes but do you know how to embed a video into your post? Still trying to figure that out....