It's definitely better than China or Japan, as far as teaching goes. Japan's too expensive, and afaik, China isn't as enjoyable. Teaching wages here are ridiculous, to the tune of $40-$50/hour for someone without a degree. With your particular degree you could probably land a sweet university job with accommodation included.
Korea's just wacky so I think you'd like it here. Plus, you'll get a kick out of all the crazy signs and Engrish t-shirts. Korean nationalism is entertaining as well.
I don't know how much you know about Korean, being a linguistics major, but Hangul is a really interesting language to learn. The written is really neat (I think it's the most modern, widely adopted language, no?) and a lot of things in it seem to make more sense than English. The hardest part about speaking and listening is learning to differentiate between the 4 k/g sounds, and the 4 j/ch sounds.
Anyway, it's pretty tough to sum up the whole experience, but teaching conditions are great, if that's what you're wondering about.
I can translate Hangul into romanized script. I have no idea what it means, but I can pronounce it at least. Tew written form is pretty widely accepted, mainly because most of the letters are based on the shape of the mouth when you make the sound, and everything else is just Chinese characters, most of which were adopted from Japanese.
Interesting. The written is definitely very easy to learn due to the fact that most sounds can be equated to an English character. I learned to read most of it within a week during my frequent subway trips.
I'm currently doing some tutor-trading with a Korean friend of mine. Listening definitely takes some work.
k seriously? did you really eat dog soup? or live octopus? please tell me thats not true and if it is which i doubt it is then how did they taste hopefully not like chicken
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Korea's just wacky so I think you'd like it here. Plus, you'll get a kick out of all the crazy signs and Engrish t-shirts. Korean nationalism is entertaining as well.
I don't know how much you know about Korean, being a linguistics major, but Hangul is a really interesting language to learn. The written is really neat (I think it's the most modern, widely adopted language, no?) and a lot of things in it seem to make more sense than English. The hardest part about speaking and listening is learning to differentiate between the 4 k/g sounds, and the 4 j/ch sounds.
Anyway, it's pretty tough to sum up the whole experience, but teaching conditions are great, if that's what you're wondering about.
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Tew written form is pretty widely accepted, mainly because most of the letters are based on the shape of the mouth when you make the sound, and everything else is just Chinese characters, most of which were adopted from Japanese.
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I'm currently doing some tutor-trading with a Korean friend of mine. Listening definitely takes some work.
I'm starting to wish I'd studied linguistics now... it's damn interesting.
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