OPIC스피킹코스에서 Job interview코스로! [From OPIC speaking course to Job interview course!]

작년에 OPIC스피킹 시험을 처음 치뤘었는데 IM1가 나왔어요.

취업용으로는 쓸 수 없는.. 부끄러운 점수라 점수 나오자마자 덮어뒀다가 이래서는 안되겠다싶어 올해 3월에 오픽스피킹 한달코스 매일반20분 신청했어요. 

Last year, I took an OPIC speaking exam for the first time, and the result was IM1.

This result is not enough for employment. Right when I looked at my result, I covered it up because it was embarrassing. I couldn’t just sit around like this, so in March, this year, I applied for an OPIC speaking course which was 20 minutes a day, for 1 month.

제 담당은 Richard 선생님이셨습니다! 우선 선생님 너무 친절하시고 남자분이신데도 배려도 잘해주시고 항상 말해봐라 시도해봐라 용기를 북돋아 주세요. 또 제가 어학연수 경험이나 해외생활 경험이 없기때문에 말을해도 굉장히 자연스럽지가 않았어요. 그런데 선생님은 그런 것을 굉장히 센스있게 바꿔서 알려주시더라구요

Teacher Richard was my teacher! First of all, he is really friendly. He’s a guy, but he’s really considerate and he always encourages me to speak, and gives me courage to try things. Also, I’ve never learned English before and I’ve never lived abroad, so my speaking doesn’t sound natural. When I say something and it doesn’t sound right, he cleverly corrects me.

예를 들어서 

today i went library....and do something...um....because i have a school homework ...um... i have to summit it.....summit date is Tuesday 라고 매우 더듬거리며 얘기하면 

선생님께서는 

oh, you went to library to do some research because of school assignment! Plus!!! the deadline is Tuesday! 오 너 정말 바쁘겠다 블라블라 열심히 하렴 해낼 수 있어

이런 식으로 굉장히 깔끔하게 잘 고쳐주세요 저는 그 말을 듣고 아 선생님처럼 말해야 더 확실하게 의미파악이 되는구나 하게 알게되었습니다. 이런 미묘한 차이는 혼자 공부했다면 알지 못했겠다싶어요.

For example:

Today i went library....and do something...um....because i have a school homework ...um... i have to summit it.....summit date is Tuesday

If I say something like this, Teacher Richard corrects me like this:

Oh, you went to library to do some research because of school assignment! Plus!!! The deadline is Tuesday! You should be really busy blabla… Try hard, you can do it!

He corrects me really well like this. When I heard that, I realized that I should talk more like teacher Richard so that people would understand what I’m trying to say. I wouldn’t have known these things if I had studied by myself.

이렇게 한달 (물론 결석도 좀 있었지만 ㅠㅠ) 20분씩 꾸준히 선생님하고 얘기하고 시험보니 IH등급이 나왔네요! 무려 3단계나 올라갔어요 ㅎㅎ

학교랑 병행해서 너무 바빠서 전화영어 말고는 준비한 것도 없는데 시험보러 가기전날 선생님이 문법 오류 고쳐준거들 my page에서 보고 갔거든요.. 그 실수들을 피하고 조심해서 말하려고 노력했는데 결과가 좋게 나왔네용 

물론 여기에 더 잘하시는 분들 너무 많을테지만 전 전화영어 아니였음 영어사용10%였을텐데 선생님과 공부해서 노력대비(?) 좋은 결과 얻은 것 같아 기쁩니다.

Classes like this for 1 month (there were some absences too), 20 minutes a day, talking with teacher Richard helped me get an IH result. This is 3 levels higher than IM1. I was too busy to study for anything except for phone talk because I had school, but the day before my OPIC exam, I looked over the grammar corrections from teacher Richard in My Page. In the exam, I tried to remember the corrections and speak carefully to not make any mistakes, and with that, I received a good result.

I know that there are many people here that are better than me, but if it wasn’t for phone talk, my result would’ve been English use: 10%. I’m glad that I could get a good result from studying with teacher Richard.

저는 지금은 Archie 선생님과 job interview 코스 과정에 있어요! 시간을 바꾸느라 선생님이 바뀌었거든요

Archie 선생님은 Richard 선생님보단 조금 엄격(?)하시지만 굉장히 프로다우신 것 같아요 영어로 표현하는 법 뿐만아니라 그 답변은 자신감이 부족해보인다. 추상적이다라고 날카롭게 말씀해주셔서 오히려 더 도움이됩니다. 단순히 영어 문법만 신경써주시는 게 아니라 어떤 답변에 담긴 컨텐츠도 신경써주시는 것 같아서요

job interview 코스는 저에겐 조금 어렵습니다만 얻어가는 게 많습니다. 앞으로 열심히 공부해야겠죠!

Richard 선생님한테 고맙고 Archie 선생님한테도 많이 배우고 있어서 감사합니당 그럼 여기까지 쓸게용...바이바이..

Right now, I’m studying Job Interview with teacher Archie. My teacher changed because I had to change my schedule. Teacher Archie seems a bit stricter than teacher Richard, but he is very pro-like. He tells me sharply that my answer is not confident enough and that it’s too abstract. This helps me a lot. He doesn’t only care about English grammar, but also the contents in my answer. Job interview course is a bit hard for me, but I’m learning a lot. I need to study hard from now on!

I am thankful to teacher Richard. I’m also thankful that I’m learning a lot from teacher Archie. I’ll end my review right here… Bye bye…