Korean Test

[samedi]

Monday is the final day of class for my Intermediate II Korean language course, which meant we were given our take-home exams on Friday morning. I began working on mine earlier this evening - falling asleep as soon as I come home from work yesterday meant I didn't have the chance to work on it then - but the test appears to be way beyond my

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[anonymous]

Now you know how your students feel when they have to sit those good awful TOEIC tests with all those ambiguous questions in them that even I have slight trouble finishing.

I’m sure you’ll do ok. You’re already ahead of the game on most of us foreigners with your Korean!

David
staypuff.net

[storysinger81]

How did you do?

[samedi]

Horribly. I answered 17 of 30 questions correctly for a 61%. Comparatively, I did slightly better than one student in the class (a 21 year old Korean-American who started attending our academy last month) and a bit worse than another classmate (a Japanese woman who said that her husband helped her on the test).

However, our teacher mentioned that my intonation is very flat, and expressed confusion at how I have a harder time understanding class discussions than my classmates. For the first point, my coworkers and academy director disagree -- and both my teacher and academy director are from Daegu, so I doubt it's a matter of regional variation. For the second, I'm just as stumped. All of my classmates (the two mentioned above, plus a Canadian student who didn't take the test) have the chance to speak Korean at home with their family, while I live alone and also don't have a significant other with whom to practice with. That might explain some of it, but it is quite frustrating to be at a lower level, comprehension-wise.