I’ve had various offers to stay at people’s houses if I’ll teach English to someone. Sorry, I made a promise to myself I wouldn’t teach English while I was in Korea. I took two years of my life to teach Koreans in Canada and that was plenty. I’m going to have fun, go to school, and be a part of the culture. If you want to learn English from someone, hire someone who loves teaching English and is trained in it. Just because I speak English doesn’t mean I want to teach it. At any price. Anyone else with me? It’s not that I think it’s bad work, it’s just not my cup of tea. I hate the stereotype that because I’m an American going to Korea that I should teach someone English to get housing or money. No and no. I’ll find other ways for both thank you very 감사.
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Top 10 Korean Engrish Signs
Since I’ve posted so many North Korean propaganda posters, I feel like I need to lighten up the posts by sharing my favorite Korean “Engrish” signs with y’all. I think we can all laugh at the mistakes we make, and I know I’ve made a lot of language mistakes. Anyways, here it goes:
#10 – All they needed to do was google “luxuly”…
#9 – Mmmm …. Robster! Wait a second …
#8 – I actually feel the most sorry for the guy in the ad
#7 – Don’t like someone? Get them a gift here!
#6 – They ain’t happy any more …
#5 – This is funny on so many levels
#4 – Human Water is people! (just google Soylent Green….)
#3 – Now I want to add gigle gigle to every food…
#2 – The newest urban sport
#1 – At least English was spelled right …
Well, there ya go! If you want to find some more funny signs and other things in English, go check out Engrish.com
Seven reasons English sucks
Next exit … NEXT EXIT!
In class yesterday, my teacher shared an interesting story about a difference between Korean and English. While he was driving down the road, his wife read directions in English which said to get off on the next exit. In English, “next exit” generally means the first upcoming exit, meaning the same thing as “this exit.” In Korean, “next exit” means the second exit from where you are. I guess through missing an exit they learned they learned the difference between “next exit” in English and Korean.
I previously covered some common English mistakes like this in case your interested in more on the subject.
