죽을 것같아!

[dedalusj]

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Things have been a little crazy the last few weeks and I have had trouble finding time to read the journals on my f-list, much less write anything. The way Andong works is that half the teachers teach summer camps in July and the other half teach in August. The camps are usually all kinds from young kids to Korean English teachers to summer classes

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[dedalusj]

Actually I don't think that English is exceptionally difficult. However, most Koreans usually only study grammar and memorize words but avoid using it. They are obsessed with always being perfectly correct instead of just speaking and, ironically it makes their English worse. They also insist the Korean is the most difficult language (it isn't THAT difficult) and that only Koreans can speak it correctly (more arrogant bullshit.) I just don't buy arguments about some languages being easy and others being hard because they all take years to master and whether a language is hard or not just does not seem relevant to learning it.

boring v bored--I explain this about once a week. 'bored' is passive, therefore, the subject is not the agent; the subject is receiving the boredom. 'boring' is active. The subject is the agent and, therefore, causing the boredom. But your mother probably knows this; it is hard to remember these details in the heat of a conversation. Korean likes to drop subjects and so passive and active sentences are often interchangeable, something that is bizarre for English speakers.