With all the Genki languages that we offer, Korean is by far the most popular. ( Yep, more popular than Chinese, Spanish, German or Japanese!)
And just like I do with the Ninja Teaching course, the first question I always ask students is ….
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If you were sitting next to me right now,
what would you most want to know about learning Korean?
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What do you think the most popular answer would be?
Vocab? Numbers? Writing?
Well, I can tell you that it is something that students *always* ask.
It’s by far and away the most popular question.
But …. many teachers never even think about it.
What is it?
Well, here’s how Brithney phrased it this morning:
I would want to know , with absolute commitment from me how long will learning Korean take ?
So how would you answer that question for your students?
I tell you, they are thinking about it 🙂
My answer is:
Full time, 3 months. Or a year if you do a couple of hours a week.
Obviously I get the most motivated students.
Ninja Tip: That’s why we focus so much on motivation in the beginning of the school curriculum – we have to build up this motivation!
But it shows that students do want to know how long this will take. They don’t want an open cheque where they’ll have to keep paying for years and years and not know where the end is!
So get your answers ready, and be sure to ask your students the question!
Be genki,
Richard
P.S. If you are teaching with kids and are dealing with parents, then you just change the question a little bit:
If I could wave a magic wand and get the perfect English for your little angel, what would that look like? And how would you know we’ve achieved it?
It’s amazing how this clears up all the parent problems – and of course gets you so many more students because no-one else cares enough to ask 🙂
Korean is one of the most difficult languages you could ever try to learn to speak well. Although it’ll probably take you five to ten years to speak at a college level, in a year you could totally pick up all that you need to get along with most people.
And unlike Japanese or Chinese, the Korean script is a cinch to learn.