I know one professor who has weird habit. She is a Korean and teaches English. I am really satisfied with her class but, every time she does her habit it makes me bothered.

She speaks in Korean when she teaches. But while she’s speaking she uses a lot of English words. I know there are lots of examples who use English words while they are speaking in Korean, but she uses really a lot extraordinarily. It’s like this. “ì�´ issue 는 매우 controversial 하기 때문ì—� very careful 하게 mention 해야합니다.” (This issue is really controversial so that we should be careful to mention it.) When I heard her style of speaking, I was confused. She uses English words not because it’s key word of the text.  

I thought about the reason why she uses a lot of English words. Here are three reasons that I guessed. (Before I start, I let you know that she has lived in U.S.A for some period. But I don’t know when she went there, how long she lived and when she arrived in Korea.)

For the first, she might came to Korea just this semester. So to her it might be hard to occur Korean words rapidly. We can see that kind of examples easily on TV. Some celebrities who have worked in foreign countries have hard time to speak in Korean or to pronounce Korean. So she might be that case.

For the second reason, she might be so proud of her English pronounciation. English pronounciation is very hard to almost of all of koreans so pronounciating English well can be one of sources of pride. So I guess she might want to show off her result of efforts.

For the third reason, she might want her students are accustomed to English. It makes sense, because in Korea we don’t use English unless we are in English class. But she might be so thoughtful to teach in English because students will be having hard time if she does. So instead of that she might decide to use English words as many as she can.

What reason do you think she might have? First one? Second one? Actually, in fact I don’t care what reason or reasons she got. What I really care is the fact that it really bothers me. It makes me hard to understand well. Then, why did I write this? Maybe I got uncomfortable or felt guilty from critisizing my professor. This writing may be the result of self-justification.