Posted on 07/28/2009 3:51:27 PM PDT by joey703
But anyways, for me, it wasn’t that great. At least, for playing “문명” (Civilization, if you don’t have a Korean font installed). But, you see, as an English teacher there I saw a parallel. The funny thing is that you would think that Korea would have the largest market for books teaching Koreans English from a Korean perspective. But, I cannot tell you how many times I came across expensive, no, very expensive textbooks published by large American or British companies that were published to teach the domestic market (Americans or the British) English. In America, the last time I studied grammar – and I’m not sure if this is true for rest of America, but the last time I studied grammar was I believe in fifth or sixth grade.
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What the heck is this about? I have a headache...
Well, obviously you need to install the Korean font.
Ok, let me dig for my Korean Font....I’ll get back to you in a few hours.
How exactly does this rambling blog relate to the discussion and advancement of conservatism?
Hold on...I’m working on a couple different angles.
Why are we supposed to be interested in his complaints about the education system and its snubbing of Korean fonts?
I don’t think this thread has Uuunnnngh! potential.
Well at least someone has a nice way of picking keywords.
The same way most blogs do.
Indeed. If one examines pretextual deconstruction, one is faced with a choice: either accept neoconceptual theory or conclude that consciousness may be used to reinforce hierarchy. It could be said that Sartre promotes the use of pretextual deconstruction to deconstruct class divisions. In Mona Lisa Overdrive, Gibson affirms textual nationalism; in Pattern Recognition he reiterates pretextual deconstruction.
For you whiners, it’s a short complaint on the how English is taught in South Korea. Heh, no one’s forcing you to read it.
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