Chapter 36: "Loss of the Street Cred"

My reputation as an actual adult took a severe blow this evening as two of my students witnessed me doing the Happy Dance™ with a bag of potato chips in the teacher's room on one of the security monitors. Ah well. At least I wasn't picking my nose or smelling my pits.

We followed this incident with a lesson in how to abuse the pronunciation of common English letters and words. The Koreans, much like the Japanese (more famous), tend towards some very grievous pronunciation errors, especially when using the sounds of b, v, f, l, and r. They also add extra syllables in words for no apparent reason. They add "-u" (oo) and "-e" (ee) most frequently. One of my students was kind enough to correct my pronunciation, to make it more Korean. He helped me in particular to butcher the letter "v" which in Korean-accent, is pronounced "buwee."

Don't ask me how they can tell what the letter "b" is, because I just don't even know.

Anyways, I learned how to say "messagee" (message) and "telepon" (telephone) and my students told me to go practice at home. It was pretty much the funniest thing ever, because they won't speak English to me otherwise -_-