Comments on: In Case You Didn’t Know How I Feel About English Education in Korea…

By: Railwaycharm

Railwaycharm — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:13:44 +0000

“Asian country where the educated will speak good English”

Baduk, did you read what you wrote? I think you meant to say speak English well.

By: wjk

wjk — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:18:20 +0000

baduk is right. 2MB is in charge to make this happen. Forward and Upward.

By: dogbert

dogbert — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:12:09 +0000

Koreans are smarter than the Japanese and the Chinese

I dunno, baduk…them Chinee are pretty smart fellers. I know y’all have bigger heads, but give them some credit.

And the Japs…whew…you know what they say, they’re so smart that can take anything and miniaturize it, just like that.

By: JiMong

JiMong — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:07:12 +0000

An Interview with Hankyoreh 21?

I thought you don’t like “hani” people.

By: baduk

baduk — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:46:02 +0000

Actually this is a great opportunity for Koreans to beat the Chinese and the Japanese.

Just like a cell phone or internet game software.

The Japanese should be speaking better English than they do now. But, they had some Nationalist pigs who stopped English education and made students memorize Kimigayo instead.

So, they are stuck at pidgen English, making all Asians look bad.

Koreans will be the first Asian country where the educated will speak good English, with no strong accent. Koreans are smarter than the Japanese and the Chinese and they will make it happen.

As I wrote before, Koreans have good potential to become the most internationalized country in the East, once they free themselves from Commie ideology.

And, speaking good English, Koreans will gain respect in the West.

By: baduk

baduk — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:35:37 +0000

The whole article is Bullshit.

When a Korean and a Chinese meet, they use English. Even if it is a broken English, it is a great tool. The same is true when a Korean business man meets a Japanese.

English is an international language.

LMB is a smart man and this acceleration in English education will make a Dutch out of every Korean; he can go and conduct business everywhere in the world.

Korean ambition is to make goods in China and sell them in Europe and America (both North and South).

The vital requirement is English!

By: SweetLou

SweetLou — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:24:50 +0000

#21 — I was thinking the same thing. I’ve noticed that in at least half of the articles where furriners are interviewed in the local media, the pictures always seem to be less than flattering. Eyes half closed, mouth open mid-speech, wrinkled expression, etc.

I don’t observe such tendencies in the western media, but I’m sure I don’t scrutinize it as hard either..

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:42:52 +0000

I’ve heard good things about Chinese Pod, but I’m too cheap to try it. You can find out more from one of the hosts, John Pasden, at Sinosplice, linked in the Asia blog list.

By: Linkd

Linkd — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:57:21 +0000

Any of you language acquisition pros think this is any good?

http://chinesepod.com/

By: bbundaegi

bbundaegi — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:01:10 +0000

But Korean has pronounciation that is more similiar to Chinese than Japanese. Also, there is more non-Chinese based vocabulary in present-day Japanese than in present day Korean.