Friday September 11
During one of the exercises, a student asked me how to spell “curry rice.” However, because Koreans roll their “r”s, I thought he asked me how to spell “colored lights”, so I wrote “colored lights” on his sheet of paper. He probably thought I was crazy. Woops. I felt bad afterwards, but maybe this way the students will learn NOT to roll their "r"s, haha.
Anyways, later that night, Stephen and I went to a pool hall to learn how to play pool Korean-style. Korean pool is played on a different table, with no pockets, and three balls (white, red and yellow). Say I was the white ball, and Stephen the yellow, then it’s my job to hit both the red and yellow balls by hitting the white ball. This style of playing pool involves much more angles and calculation than the regular pool we’re used to back home. However, I still kicked his ass.
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ReplyDeleteAnd that's a shame about the accent. I have a Korean friend that gives me a similar problem, but it makes for something interesting conversations and quick-thinking.
On a somewhat-unrelated note, my brother, who is in college, has an Eastern Asian teacher who pronounces the "r" in "molecules." Yep.