Patrick TS # 3

Today's lesson was focused around more conversation, the topic we focused on being 'culture'. So-Young was actually very aware of most vocabulary surrounding her culture, as she'd gone abroad to teach English before and this conversation had likely come up more than once while she was doing that. She let me know what to expect when I come to Korea (as I'm going in August) and how to interact with others so as not to come across as an 'ignorant foreigner' (My words.) It felt like today she was teaching me more than I was teaching her! In return I explained about the various different 'cultures' we have in the US, about how the south can be very different than the north, and how the south and north are really only talking about the South East and North East, and how the west can be very different compared to those two places as well! The only term I think she didn't know, funnily enough, was the term 'Redneck' which I explained in some comedic detail.

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