TS #1 Youngjune

    It was a pleasure to meet Youngjune! We started off the session by getting to know eachother a bit and just chatting. Youngjune from South Korea and is at FSU with his girlfriend who is also doing CIES! Youngjune studies computer science back in South Korea, and is currently working remotely as a software engineer. While chatting we discussed Youngjunes goals with English, and I got a good idea of some areas we could work on improving. It turns out that Younjune's biggest goal is to have a high enough level of English to be able to rent a car in the United States, which I thought was a very interesting goal. He also loves Korean poetry, and wants to be able to read and understand English poetry. Youngjune can usually understand English when it is spoken to him, but he has difficulty producing speech himself. I decided that the best thing to do for now would be to get Youngjune to speak as much as possible in our sessions. To finish off the session, we read two short and easy poems by Robert Frost. This was great exercise because Youngjune learned some new vocabulary and got to practice speaking as we discussed each poem. 

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