Frankie TS #7

For the first I met 22 year old Inhyeong, from Chungju, Korea. Incidentally, we were introduced to one another through another tutee, Henrique, on account of my being stood up by two other tutees. She was willing to start English tutoring and I was more than happy to oblige. Our first session was quite fun, as she has only been in the US for about a month now and her English is not as up to par as her peers back in Korea. She told me of how they would make fun of her incomprehensible English; however, I feel that their command of the language was only strong enough to understand perfect grammatical English. Inhyeong's ability to speak, in my humble opinion, is actually fairly good. Though, despite it being true that there is not a level of fluency in order to have a conversation she still had enough comprehension to understand our first session reviewing idioms. In particular, I was quite proud that she grasped the concept of literal and figurative. She learnt what it literally would mean to "be in a pickle." But of course we went through he figurative meaning, as that is the idiom commonly employed. I looked forward to our next session, which happened to be the next day.