Learning Korean

These days, Loren and I are doing two lots of Korean language lessons per week. We have our 2 hour lesson at the YMCA on Tuesday. We are also doing a 1 hour lesson at a near by english cafe.

We are learning alot and are much better than we were 3 months ago. However, we are still very very far from being referred to as "good" at Korean.

For instance, this week at the Korean lesson my teacher came in and said "ann neeyong ha say yo" which means hello. I decide to go all out and say hello back followed by "how are you?". My teacher understood the hello part but was very confused at my "how are you?". It turns out I didn't ask how she was, instead I asked "how is your cup of tea?". So, as you can imagine, her response was not the "im doing fine" I was expecting.

Later that same lesson the teacher, who was in her second week teaching the group, asked if we remember her name. She receive a room of blank faces. So she wrote the first letter of her name on the board to
help.



This jogged my memory and I had a guess at her name. She looked very surprised at my guess. I thought I must have got it first try. She asked me to repeat what I had guessed so she could see if I was correct. So I repeated her name and got ready for some praise for being the only student who remembered.
Instead she told me to never say that again as instead of saying her name I had just said the Korean word for "bitch"....twice.

I'm glad our teacher is super nice or she may not speak to me again. In a ten minute period I managed to ask her how her cup of tea was and guess that her name is bitch.....I guess I still have a lot of learn.