So, this went on for about a minute. I'm wrong, because I'm not the Korean teacher. Shit is okay, because the Korean teacher said it's okay, and I'm wrong, because I'm the foreigner. But, I'm the native speaker. Children really shouldn't say shit. I'm sure that a Korean teacher would be pissed off if a student was saying 씨발 and 개세끼.
If you ever come to Korea, this is shit you will have to deal with - You're wrong, but the Korean English Teacher is right.
8 days to go.
5 comments:
Hang in there, man. They're not trying to antagonize you...they just don't know. Hey, thanks for your comment. I don't know you but I get the impression you are a Korea pro, so it's encouraging to have you leave a nice message!
Yeah, they're not trying to piss me off, but sometimes they can do it very easily ^^ hehe.
I had something like that happen in my classes two weeks ago. My elementary students started saying "bloody hell" or "what the hell" every 5secs. When I told them to quit cursing in my class they told me if it was in Harry Potter their teacher said it wasn't a curse word...little shits. Used my own mean scary foreigner voice and now I am known as the mean teacher=^^=
Yep, been through that many times. Most recently over a bit of grammar that was incorrect in the textbook. I mean, was correct because it was in the textbook. I'm clearly wrong. What kills me is when they try to argue the points. If you don't want to know, don't ask me.
Hey Kuri, thanks for the message. Yeah, I get that too. I'm surprised many times when Korean parents take their kids to the cinema to watch a movie that isn't rated for them (example, I was ready to strangle the Korean parents who brought their kids to watch Eagle Eye on the weekend - luckily they weren't sitting anywhere near me, but they were running around the cinema before it started), but they watch it because it's "English". Then they learn words and phrases from it, and think it's okay to say it.
It's like if i watch a Korean drama movie, and see sexy but vindictive, superficial and nasty girls and think that it's okay to do that in real life... oh, wait... um... I momentarily forgot where I was ^^
Also, Brian thanks for your comment as well. I've had that situation as well with the text book being right, and you're wrong, but not from students, from my boss. It got to the point of me saying "what did you hire me for, if you're not gonna listen to what i've got to say?", but that was before I realised that I wasn't actually there to teach English *^^*
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