Seriously. I consider myself to be quite a well spoken person, with an extensive vocabulary, a well read brain, and sweet nunchuck skills. All these great qualities are being threatened. Why?
I teach elementary school children English. 5 days a week. 6 classes a day. I grade notebooks, homework, correct tests, sing songs, and teach phonics. How does this work? It's something like this: "Jane and Dave have a big cat band, they play very loud TODAAAAAAAAAY!" This teaches phonics. We sing songs that make no sense to us, but to the kids it's a great way to learn how to pronounce words. My favorite song? It's called "I have a zit". Yes, I'm not kidding.
Daily conversations for me at work now consist of "You! No speaking Korean. No sign homework, no goodbye (detention)" or even "Hey, you, sitting down! Running ANYO!" Anyo means no. I have no clue how you spell it, but that's how you say it. Me trying to explain my home in Ohio? "Miss Raetzer live no city, but suburbs. Many houses. No apartments. Houses? Houses like big apartment, stairs, many rooms. Kitchen. Oven big box, make cookies in. No, Miss Raetzer no eating kimchi in America. Miss Raetzer have big dog. Everyone love dogs in America. Miss Raetzer lots of grass around house."
Yea, I know. I feel my brain cells dying every time I open my mouth at school.
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