Wine made me more fluent
haha it was true.
I do language exchange once a week. I help my exchange partner with Korean and he helps me with English.
I have taught Korean to my friend from the States, I like to teach, and I always want to practice my English so I started to do it.
Today (oh...yesterday) was the day we were supposed to meet and study. However the 회식 [hoi-sick] (which means having dinner and drinking with my co-workers for our unity or just for fun) was planned suddenly. So I wanted to change the study schedule but I thought It would be not good to postpond and I could make it at night around 9 pm.
From 7 pm to 8:50 pm, I had several shots of soju(Korean wine) and went to meet my exchange friend.
"How are you? Sorry. I had some soju because my company had dinner together. Don't worry. I am not drunken, blah, blah, blah..."
I know I must have had a bad smell of achohol but I could not help it, haha.
Anyway my cool friend understood my situation and we started to talk and study.
Oh, dear. I could feel my speaking was better than ever. Maybe wine made me more fluent in speaking.
The affective fliter and degree of fear about a new language plays a great role when you study a second language. So sometimes wine gives a good impact on speaking a second language. I heard about it before but I was my first experience.
Why don't you try it?
I do language exchange once a week. I help my exchange partner with Korean and he helps me with English.
I have taught Korean to my friend from the States, I like to teach, and I always want to practice my English so I started to do it.
Today (oh...yesterday) was the day we were supposed to meet and study. However the 회식 [hoi-sick] (which means having dinner and drinking with my co-workers for our unity or just for fun) was planned suddenly. So I wanted to change the study schedule but I thought It would be not good to postpond and I could make it at night around 9 pm.
From 7 pm to 8:50 pm, I had several shots of soju(Korean wine) and went to meet my exchange friend.
"How are you? Sorry. I had some soju because my company had dinner together. Don't worry. I am not drunken, blah, blah, blah..."
I know I must have had a bad smell of achohol but I could not help it, haha.
Anyway my cool friend understood my situation and we started to talk and study.
Oh, dear. I could feel my speaking was better than ever. Maybe wine made me more fluent in speaking.
The affective fliter and degree of fear about a new language plays a great role when you study a second language. So sometimes wine gives a good impact on speaking a second language. I heard about it before but I was my first experience.
Why don't you try it?
posted by flowerful | 9/09/2005 02:19:00 a.m.
4 Comments:
Alcohol always helps my Korean!
Alcohol peels away our veneer of self-consciousness.
That's why the salarymen and salarywomen in the rigid hierarchies of Korea and Japan must go out and get shit-faced sometimes.
But too much will peel away the veneer of good health.
Haha! At least alcohol does have a good purpose! :-))
Hey flowerful, would you teach me Korean too? I can also assist you in English if you like. :-)
How do you write "soju" in Korean characters?
I don't think alcohol makes you more fluent, it's just you don't notice what are you saying, or how are you saying it (or at least you don't care ^_^) I know it very well ^0^
soju → 소주 [燒酒]
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