Thursday, August 13, 2015

Genevieve TS #1

My first tutoring session with Jun was on Friday June 19th which was actually Saturday June 20th for Jun, via Skype. Jun introduced me to his baby brother who he said was 3 but who appeared to be a baby much younger. I wondered if age is counted differently (like in Europe) and later I learned that it is. He introduced me to his mother. I asked him what he did outside of school and he told me he and his family played tennis. I asked Jun what he liked about English and what he didn't like. I learned that he had gone to school for many years in Tallahassee and that he missed his friends here and that unfortunately he doesn't get to Skype with them. He explained to me that his brother only knew about five words in English and that his brother was being raised in South Korea when he had been raised mainly in Tallahassee. I asked if he thought this would make any difference between them in their language acquisitions and he thought it would. I asked him how his studies were going at school and he said very good, that he always got good marks. This took all our time and we said goodbye. From speaking with Jun I would have thought he was a native speaker.

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