Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Koreans Do Not Read What Is On Their T-Shirts

Korean people's English is so bad, and I mean that sincerely! They really do have a problem with making sentences and do most of their talking with ridiculous words from a dictionary and try to make a sentence doing that. Their concept of grammar is almost non-existent.

Most of my students do not know what a noun, adjective or verb is, or can't even recognize them in a sentence. Not knowing the definitions is one thing, but you should be able to pinpoint them in the sentence. That is one of the biggest problems that a teacher here faces. Not only do the students not know the grammar, the Korean teachers are just as bad, as they try to teach the grammar, but they have no clue.


Here is an example of how unaware Koreans are of what constitutes good English or bad, or even what it means.
A 9 year old girl comes to school wearing this t-shirt. Isaiah couldn't believe his eyes and asked me to take a picture of this, so I did and now I am putting it on my blog to show how bad the situation is.
There was one guy last week that had the word "fuck" on his t-shirt, walking around everywhere with it.
"Absolutely oblivious." That is my new catch phrase for Koreans when they walk, talk or do anything that requires vision, As well as understanding anything that is on their clothes in English, which by the way, is lots of stuff........

1 comment:

tonight at noon said...

dude, that is fuckin hilarious paul... and sadly true of course... i couldn't stop laughing at the shirt of your coin phrase, 'absolutely oblivious.' brilliant.