South Korea Is A Whole Different World, And These 50 Photos Are Here To Prove It

Agreed.... I never knew my Nana, but my Koro spoke the most beautiful Maori language.. My Mum and a couple of my Aunts and Uncles did too until it was 'colonised' out of them. Today sadly, I have 1 Aunt & 1 Uncle left, from the 13 children that my Grandparents had. By the time the language got down to them, the youngest of 13, it had already been taken from them. Today however, the country is bringing back a Maori Language, with alot of resistance from Kiwis. The language today is what is called 'Universal Maori'.. its a good idea, which includes Maori that have now been born and raised in other countries, but it will never have the same beautiful dialect that once belonged to the different Iwi of this country.

We are fortunate that we are living in a time where many many places and peoples have realized the importance of keeping languages alive. It is very sad that so many languages, and with them, our cultural human inheritance, has been lost to time. I encourage everyone to make a point of learning a language, any language, but even more so if you have cultural roots to one you do not speak now. So many FREE resources on line. Go meet the Duoling Owl, for one- a bit pushy, but you do learn :)

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I think learning whatever as a second language is great but we should all decide on either English, French, or Mandarin as a universal first language so that we can break down all communication barriers.

Not to mention that it's pretty much happening as we speak with English, so...

My Granny also only made it to 3rd grade and when I asked for written recipes and was denied I was hurt. I understand now why she wouldn't give them to me.

What she could have learned from her nonna!

You should totally do it!! it sounds like it brought you joy and gave you a sense of purpose and a shared feeling of genuine happiness and gratitude to be able to take part in other people's journeys... I work in the Addictions field and at my last job I got to teach Computer Literacy Classes; my experience sounds pretty similar to yours ... What I found is that if you display patience and a willingness to listen, to not get angry or frustrated or judge, people feel safe enough to learn and to ask questions about what they don't know/understand. And most importantly they keep coming back, giving you the chance to really do some work with them and help them achieve their goals. In the end, as humans, we have to be in this together and all we have is eachother. As corny as that sounds, you can't imagine how excited they were at their completion of the their classes - for some it was the 1st time they had ever completed anything. Def one of the more rewarding experiences for me

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"Korean children receive regular education from the age of 7, but they are already taught to read from the age of 3." Courtesy of Google Translate.

Thanks Mark

Happy to be of help.

I've got to try that aunty thing. Will itt work if she's younger than I?

To answer Bernadette heh as well...USA could have... But the orange dumpster fire was too busy making tax breaks for his buds and pardoning traitors... If you compare the two countries. South Korea is slightly more poor per person and it was actually more expensive to do this for their citizens than it would have been for the good ole USA. But Repubs as demonstrated are pure evil... As a whole... But I'm just a furriner on the outside laughing and pointing at a nation that lost 300 years of earned respect in four years. Thanks for the laughs murica...

Not only that, mocking people for following safety rules like masks. Let's not forget either that it was a lie that he did not know how bad it was. He accepted he knew very well how bad the pandemic was but he decided to say it was not so the economy wouldn't stop. He put money over lives.