Saturday, March 31, 2007

Elluminate

Today, I had a special class with Norm, professor in Canada.
This online sychronous discussion with Dr Norm Vaughn at the University of Calgary was really useful to me and everything came to me so exciting.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Interesting thing from ED 14 studying.

Theseday, I am suffering from doing my first "Languae and Culture" assignmnet. However, I'm also having fun from new knowledge..
In terms of the nuit's focus on language and culture, my particular interest relates to the women's title..I read the book talked about the title for Korean marriaged women. It is said that the title, Samonim, was invented to call successful men's wives differently from ordinary marriage women when the capitalist industrialization was rapidly growing. Samonim has the literal meaning of mother of a teacher. In confucian culture, teaching was regarded as the most respectful job, so Samonim refferred to the most prestigious social status. They demonstrated that women did not have their own economic status and their economic status was dependent on their husbands' class position in the patrialrchal society. This word is still commonly usded.
Thus, for me to be called Samonim in Korea, I feel I have to marrage the man who belongs to a high class. SUCH A SEXIST TITLE.. When can we escape from male -dominated culture?

Friday, March 9, 2007

The difference between Korean-Egnlsih

(1) Koreans use “we” where “I” would be used in English.

(2) Koreans use strict verb forms according to who you are to speak to.

(3) Koreans hardly call their first name. If we call teachers’ name, it is regarded very rude and parents might be asked to come to school..Therefore, when I studied in EAP, my teahcer asked us to call her 'her name' , not 'teacher'. However I couldn't use her name to call her for a while..
In this point, I'm still thinking that it would be better to ask my student to call me "Mun-hee" or just "Teacher" as the way it is translated.

Saturday, March 3, 2007

It's me

My holiday in Newzealand


This holiday in Newzealand is the best one I've had in my life.
I knew it would be amazing, but it was even more amazing than I expected. I highly recommand travelling in NZ to you.
Where I visited : Christchurch - Milford Sound - Fox Glacier - Queenstown

It's exciting

I am Moon