Korean Tutorage
I am so bad at learning Korean. I meet w/ 2 tutors/language partners every week but I don't prepare much before I see them since I'm out doing something every day/night, so I make very little progress. I'm still just learning how to pronounce the alphabet and read. After 2-3 weeks I should have that down already.
Oh well.
The funny thing I was thinking about is how I was reading these girls' essays they wrote in English. Oh my god.. let me tell ya, I don't know if its purely a language barrier issue, but the logic and content of the essays were horrible. It was not so much the grammar (which was bad), it was the lack of significant ideas! The topics were simple things like, "contrast living in a big city vs small city" and the level of intellect was really sad. But I think maybe its just because you are working w/ limited expressive skills so you can only really write so much. If I had to write an essay in Japanese it'd probably be just as silly. Anyways it was a trip.
I'm learning a little! Give me 1 year!!
Oh well.
The funny thing I was thinking about is how I was reading these girls' essays they wrote in English. Oh my god.. let me tell ya, I don't know if its purely a language barrier issue, but the logic and content of the essays were horrible. It was not so much the grammar (which was bad), it was the lack of significant ideas! The topics were simple things like, "contrast living in a big city vs small city" and the level of intellect was really sad. But I think maybe its just because you are working w/ limited expressive skills so you can only really write so much. If I had to write an essay in Japanese it'd probably be just as silly. Anyways it was a trip.
I'm learning a little! Give me 1 year!!
posted by The Big Time at 8:43 PM
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