I was surprised in my English Conversation classes how difficult it was to correct headlines. Students were supposed to correct newspaper headlines that omitted the "a", "the" or no article at all. I thought this would be a breeze but it was more difficult than I thought. Thinking that there was no such thing as "the" in Korean, I didn't talk about it from that perspective. But I learned in my second conversation class that this does in fact exist in Korean. One of the ways it exists is with "그". This can mean "that house (그 집)" if a person can see the house. But it can also mean, "The house" if the house is not visible.
During this Chuseok holiday, I'm asking my students to think about how to talk about the food they eat. For example, rice cake, kimchi, the table (Koreans don't eat tables of course, but here is an example of "the").
Example: Sometimes 저는 think the 교수 잊다 we are Koreans. Or 아마도 he thinks 왜냐하면 we 공부 English 많아요. Anyway, I 좋다 his 열심히 heart.
ReplyDelete저는 means I.
ReplyDelete사랑 means love.^^
교수 means professor without honorifics.
잊다 means forget.
아마도 means maybe or perhaps.
왜냐하면 means because.
공부 means study.
많아요 means many.
좋다 means good or like.
열심히 means enthusiastic.
pforessor, I don't understand what are you talking about. change Konglish to English, I don't know example means.
ReplyDeleteSeo Nyeong,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your honest question.
The example shows how to change Konglish to English. Just write the word in Korean and define it in English.
For example, "저는" means I.
Does this make sense?
yes! it was really hard to correct headline sentences.
ReplyDeleteAnd when i speak in english, the most difficult part for me is also how to use 'the' or 'a'.
I don't know how to use those kind of..things...
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Actually , I don't know 100% well, about 'a, the' what we have studied last week.
ReplyDeleteBut I know a little bit.
I think it was fun that time.
I understand ues 'a' or 'an'. but I still confused use 'the' or 'a'. ㅠ ㅠ
ReplyDeleteWell, let me help all of you out with that. I tried to explain this in class but I probably didn't give you enough practice.
ReplyDeleteYou use "The" for nouns (person, place, thing) that are known. For example, "Dr. Im Seungan is THE President of KNU."
You use "a" for things that are not known or that there may be many of. For example, "Do you have A pen that I can borrow?"
And sometimes you don't to use anything. This might be the case when something is not countable. For example, "Do you have lice?" It can also be the case for things that are unknown which there may be many of. For example, "Are there women in every country?" I think the countable, non-countable aspect will help you with this.
Are there any students in here?
Is there a student who understands this assignment?
Are you the student who understands this assignment?
Why don't you try?
sorry! I don't understand using a/the .ㅜ_ㅜ
ReplyDeleteum,,,preposition is very difficult to me ㅜㅜ
ReplyDeleteI'm unaccustomed to use 'A, The'
usually I forget to write 'A,The'
when I hand out writting homework,please check preposition
Jihyun,
ReplyDeleteI don't think you are alone. Did my explanation in class help at all?
Hyemin,
ReplyDeleteIt's probably difficult for all of us. But I think you can learn it, don't you?
I'll try to pay more attention to this in class. Feel free to practice here.