Time transcripts of Jae_audio

[00:00:00:00]	[interviewer: okay, can you introduce yourself?]

[00:00:03:29]	Hi, I'm Jae. I'm from Korea and it's been three months since I came here. Yeah, that's all.

[00:00:13:15]	[interviewer: So, how old were you when you started learning English?]

[00:00:18:18]	Oh, I think it was like six years old maybe?

[00:00:22:11]	[interviewer: six years old?] Yeah.

[00:00:23:26]	[interviewer: Okay, how did you start to learn? 

[00:00:26:17]	Did you learn in school or did you go to extra classes outside of school?]

[00:00:30:03]	Um, yeah, my mom let me learn some English by some extra,

[00:00:36:02]	 you know, academic classes. 

[00:00:39:25]	So, I learned it from some tutors when I was young.

[00:00:46:19]	[interviewer: So what made you want to learn English? 

[00:00:49:21]	Why did you start learning?]

[00:00:50:25]	Uh, it's kind of not I want[ed] to.

[00:00:54:22]	It's mandatory for - to live [in] this global societies.

[00:01:02:15]	And, I think it's cool now 'cause whenever I travel a lot, around the world,

[00:01:09:02]	I met a lot of peoples from different countries. 

[00:01:13:24]	If we don't have English, we can't communicate [with] each other even.

[00:01:19:19]	But with English we can communicate [with] each other just, 

[00:01:23:07]	a little bit about yourself, your life and your country.

[00:01:27:02]	So... so I think that's cool. Yeah, that's cool.

[00:01:30:21]	[interviewer: Yeah? So, do you feel pretty comfortable speaking in English now?]

[00:01:37:03]	Not yet. [laughing] I'm so nervous whenever I talk 

[00:01:42:02]	but I try 'cause, you know,

[00:01:45:10]	I want to improve my English so har - so fluently. But, yeah. I will try.

[00:01:55:15]	[interviewer: So what is that like, here in America then; 

[00:01:59:23]	interacting with people who mainly, only speak English?]

[00:02:03:09]	Uh... uhm... yeah...? [laughing]

[00:02:14:06]	[interviewer: Here, I'll rephrase it. Um, what are some of the hard things, 

[00:02:18:26]	or easy things about speaking with native English speakers?]

[00:02:23:22]	Okay, I think it's quite different from person by person  

[00:02:28:05]	'cause I met some peoples who, even though they- they were born here,

[00:02:33:03]	they had lots of international friends and they're quite used to - about some weird accent,

[00:02:41:26]	about many other people from other countries. 

[00:02:45:24]	I met - I also met a lot of friends - a lot of people

[00:02:51:01]	who can't even understand those very typical accent of like Chinese or Korean, 

[00:02:57:14]	so it depends on the person. 

[00:03:00:22]	[interviewer: okay, so what was it like learning English 

[00:03:06:22]	in school in South Korea, or just in general?] 

[00:03:08:14]	Um, we learn reading and writing usually emphasize on grammar,

[00:03:15:22]	so we're expert at grammar, you know. 

[00:03:18:21]	Sometimes better than Americans!

[00:03:20:07]	But it's different from speaking. I think that's the most bad part 

[00:03:24:09]	'cause we have to practice speaking actually 'cause we're not gonna communicate

[00:03:34:05]	with other people by writing at this place.

[00:03:37:16]	So I think that they should emphasize speaking too. But they are changing now. 

[00:03:44:14]	[interviewer: So, what was - was that one of the hardest things about English 

[00:03:54:13]	was just the lack of speaking practice?] Yeah. 

[00:03:55:16]	[interviewer: what was - what did you like most about learning English?]

[00:03:59:20]	Umm... English... learning about English... English, in my opinion,

[00:04:16:19]	English is more than just one - just a language from one country - America. 

[00:04:22:25]	But, it's kind of global language nowadays, So, I think that's

[00:04:26:25]	very cool because, as I say that we can interact with

[00:04:30:25]	other peoples that even though we don't know a word of their

[00:04:34:25]	countries but, but we can still communicate with each other by

[00:04:38:25]	English. The - the material. So

[00:04:42:25]	I think that's very cool. That's the part that I like most.

[00:04:46:25]	[interviewer: alright, well thank you very much!] Thank you! Bye!