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Living in KoreaSubmitted by I on 25 September 2006 - 3:21pmTags: Korea can be a fun and exciting place. However, it is very different from living in Western countries and many foreigners have trouble adapting to the local culture. Bookmark/Search this post with: |
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No understanding
I'll say. A problem I'm having here is that many people here don't understand that I don't understand, if you understand. Many people think that if they speak slowly I will understand them. It took my school two months to finally appreciate there were many things I could not do with my computer owing to every instruction and programme being in Korean (finally, after several requests, they changed my Windows programme over to English). It has taken them just as long to figure out that I can't understand the objectives for the classes because they too are written in Korean (despite them expecting me to conduct the classes independently). They recently gave me a pile of new textbooks to help me conduct special classes and you guessed it, they're all in Korean.
lol@my last post
Oh, and I missed the bus yesterday, and my jersey shrank in the wash, and I missed half of Footballer's Wives because I was busy marking homework, and I haven't had bacon and eggs for weeks, and they don't drink real coffee here. (jokes about everything except bacon eggs & coffee)
It's not actually that bad here, but you have to be irrepressible and a bit imaginative.
I recommend Rosetta Stone to
I recommend Rosetta Stone to learn a lot of structured sentences and build a vast vocabulary. Clearly the program is expensive, but i'm sure that high speed internet you have there could torrent you something, it's a recommended purchase though.
Google the Hangul Alphabet, You can learn it in about 2-3 hours. It's really simple!
It just seems funny to me for someone to in a sense, complain about non english thing's in a non english country.. :S
Well the complaint wasn't
Well the complaint wasn't about food or anything like that. The original comment was made by someone who was offered a job in which you are not expected to read korean and then expecting you to be able to read korean. Hangul is easy to learn but the grammar is incredibly difficult to get your head around and being able to read hangul out loud is not the same as understanding it.