When I first met my girlfriend, her English skill was miles higher than my Korean skill. Wait, who am I kidding, her English still is vastly superior to my Korean. Anyhow, because my Korean was so poor when we met, I made a lot of progress in the year we’ve been dating. There was so much I didn’t know, that it was easy to see a lot of progress in a relatively short ammount of time.
Like I said, my girlfriend already had a pretty good grasp of the language, so her improvement was not as noticeable. She didn’t make glarring grammatical mistakes, or have to create her own English words when not knowing an object or concept’s actual name. Therefore she was under the impression that her English has not gotten any better.
Well, let me tell you that she is wrong. First of all her comprehension is a lot better now. When we first met she would occassionally stare at me for awhile while attempting to comprehend what had been said, but now it’s almost instantaneous, but my comprehension improved a great deal as well. Since meeting me she has learned all kinds of useless useful expressions such as “I have to break the seal,” “Hey man,” and “Dammit!” She on the other hand has educated me on proper verb tense, indirect quoting, and countless other grammatical concepts. In all it’s a pretty fair trade I think.
