TP #2

My 2nd meeting with Karis went really well and lasted for a solid 2 hours. She had brought me a survey she had created, asking consumers what was important to them concerning healthy food. We went through each line of the survey and reviewed her word usage, phrasing, and sentence structure. One of the main mistakes she had made was not using the articles 'a, an, & the'. She told me that in Korea they don't really use them, so we had to spend extra time explaining when and why we use them in English. I told her that I would find and bring a guide sheet that further explains them for our next meeting. We also focused on possessives and plurals, because those were other grammar factors that she wasn't using. I came up with examples that were similar to what she would use and she then fixed her own sentences correctly. We made it through the entire survey and, even though we went an hour longer than originally planned, the time was well spent and needed. I even let her keep the notes and examples that I had made and written down throughout our meeting.

One more interesting thing that we went over was the difference between parenthesis and brackets. The concept wasn't hard for her to grasp, but saying the word 'parenthesis' was more difficult. They don't use the 'th' sound in Korean and it was hard for her to train her mouth to form that sound. We broke down the syllables in the word and slowly sounded it out together and she watched how I made the sound and mimicked it. I had never really thought before about some sounds that I don't even think of, may be really difficult for someone else to create. We are meeting again next week and I hope to continue helping her the best I can!