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Gerunds Are Funny

06/18/07

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Categories: ...and Takes On, Tae Kwon Do

Gerunds Are Funny

"관장님, -는 것? Um...'태권도 하는 것 재미 있어요.' 괜찮아요?" Master, gerund form? 'Doing taekwondo is fun.' Is that right?

"Yes. And Amanda! Look!" He points to my ㅈ, ㅐ, and ㅆ. "You write like Korean now! See, you are very Korean."

I burst out laughing. It's true. My stroke order is no longer correct. It's realistic.

"Amanda, yesterday you have date. Where go?"

I burst out laughing again.

Later in class Master barks out commands in English and I answer in Korean. Finally he says, "Amanda! Why I speaking English and you speaking Korean?"

I grin. "몰라요!" I don't know!

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An American educator moves to Korea, presumably to teach English. Instead she discovers that learning Korean one taekwondo class at a time is a more captivating activity.

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