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Some-Kinda-Blog-Stop Feeling a need to learn Korean. | Feeling a need to learn Korean. |
| Sunday, 09 October 2011 | |
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"Excuse me, what kind of fish is this?" (I was trying to find a mackerel at a huge market and a customer seemed like checking out the fish that looked like mackerel.) "Sorry. No speak English." Argh! Flushing, Queens, NY is a place where a lot of businesses were owned by Koreans (most Chinese are in Downtown, Manhattan). Some of them speak little English. Some doesn't speak the language at all. The huge market is owned by Koreans (it is where I buy my Magnolia ice cream-- the one that says "product of the Philippines"). Anyways... since I couldn't get any help, I decided to buy two pieces of the fish that looked like mackerel. "Clean. Cut in two." -- Giving the guy a sign language at the same time. You know, the way you do it in charades? C said I got it right when I arrived home and showed the fish to him. Thank God. What can I do? I don't know all the fish and sometimes they all look the same. It could be easier if they put an "English" label in every fish, right? Well, they have labels but most of them doesn't have an English text. Sometimes I wonder, "Am I in the U.S.?" Duh! Now I remember the Chinese (or was he Korean?) guy near the subway station in Flushing who shouts every morning, "Damn New York! Damn New York!" Later I found out that what he was actually saying was "AM New York! AM New York!" He was giving away the tabloid, AM New York. Now that was sleng.  |
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