Teachin' English
Teaching English is hard to do. ABCDEF... to the little ones this is simple enough, but try explaining to the older kids why read (present tense) and read (past tense) are spelled the same but spoken differently. How is a child supposed to sound out the word Wednesday? Too often we just have to say "that's just the way it is."
One of the gems of teaching English to kids is learning bad words in Korean. Every now and then somebody in class will say something in Korean which everyone finds hysterical. I usually ask the kid what he just said, but that rarely gets a response, so I head straight for the teacher's pet (its kind of ironic that in 2 of my classes, the teacher's pet is named Ryan...haha). A few days ago I learned the words "shut up," "stupid," and, my favorite, "fart master." Sweet. Now I know 10 words in Korean.
posted by beth and ryan @ 6:22 PM
3 Comments:
ryan i hope you and beth are having a great time there looks exciting I hope you consider thinking about becoming a korean fireman so you can teach me a little. Maybe you can teach me some korean language also i have a baby due any day little girl take care and talk soon your brother fred
What's up fart master!!! It's so good to hear from you both. Glad to see you have found some comforts of home, like the coffee mug, how weird is that. Everything is going pretty good here, busy as ever. Love the blog, keep it up!
Well... how do you say fart master in Korean?
I've heard that English is one of the hardest second languages to learn, due to all the strange pronounciations and variations on words like, oh, I dunno... champagne. Isn't that stupid word French, anyway?
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