One Chinese girl, one Polish boy, and three Japanese girls, learning Korean at FLTTC, in the basic course(level 2) were my students. (In fact, I expected some cute Chinese boys; not very tall, with big, black eyes, and such an innocent face that melts every teacher's heart^^)
Today's objects of study were 'AVst기로 하다', 'AVst(으)ㄹ 만하다', 'AVst느라고', 'AVst는/DVst(으)ㄴ 척하다', and I had to give them a lecture about the expression 'AVst느라고' for one hour.(Well... to be exactly, it was only 40 minutes.)
This is actually not the first time to teach foreigners Korean for me; I'd worked as a volunteer in Ansan Migrant Shelter in 2002, and I used to visit two Burmese in Bucheon twice a week to teach them Korean in 2002 and 2003. The Korean class with the two Burmese was not exactly a 'Korean language class', but rather a discussion about Korean politics, history, society and culture. (I'd like to remind you that I studied Politics in my undergraduate days.) Thus, most of the topics we had that time were about migrant worker's issues, Korean modern history("How did Korea achieve democracy?" - this probably was the most interesting topic for my two friends. They were involved in the pro-democracy movement in Burma and came to Korea in 1994), and many other issues in Korean civil society. But I rarely explained something about vocabularies or grammar.
Frankly speaking, I'm not quite sure whether I know all the grammatical category of my own mother language. I speak and write Korean everyday every moment, mostly unconsciously, without paying much attention whether I'm grammatically correct or not. But to explain something to foreigners is a quite different thing.
Things I found out today:
1. Korean is VERY VERY difficult.
2. Teaching Korean is EVEN MORE difficult.
3. Sometimes, students are SMARTER than the teacher.
Why am I soooooooo stupid???
Argh...
2 comments:
Haha interesting!I'm expecting this kind of expereince, as a teacher in the classroom!
BTW,how old are your students?
cute Chinese boys? ;)
Foreign students at HUFS are usually very very young, and not a few of them have just graduated from the highschool and came to Korea - especially the Chinese.
Yes Dora, students from China are soooooooo cute, with an average height about 150~160cm, big black eyes and looking at the teacher with a shy smile. Just LOVELY!!! Japanese students are also cute and polite.
(The majority of foreign students learning Korean in FLTTC are Chinese and Japanese.)
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