Patrick TS # 2

     This was my second time tutoring So-Young Kim. As I stated in my first blog regarding my tutoring sessions, So Young is an advanced speaker and wanted to work on her advanced vocabulary and writing. So today we discussed politics. She asked me about politics in the United States and gave me her opinions on it, and I helped her with some of the more complex words she may not have stumbled upon during her time teaching English. Then I had her describe to me the state of politics in South Korea. This discussion session was both fun and enlightening for the both of us, and So Young was able to learn some vocabulary that doesn't come up in day to day conversation, but is nevertheless useful for discussing more complicated topics, such as the word 'Partisan' and 'Incumbent'.

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