한국어를 배우고 있어요

Me: *goes to a place to order lunch*

*Said place serves food from a country that speaks my target language*

Me: *starts panicking because I don’t want to potentially out myself*

Me: *casually avoids saying anything that I know is a word from my target language when ordering food* I am the world’s biggest coward.

My main concern is that I don’t know if I know how to say any of the words correctly. While at the same time not knowing how people who speak English would say it. So basically there’s a chance that I’d out myself as a nerd.

Why would this be a bad thing?

Because I am a white person studying an East Asian language in a state with a really bad yellow fever problem. So any time someone finds out, I get the stink eye because they’ll assume that I’m one of THOSE PEOPLE.

If you don’t know what sentence mining is you can watch a video about it here.

Since I’m kind of on my own with this here. I figured I might as well try to help other people like me.

People who want to learn Korean, but can’t seem to talk to people no matter how hard they try. Getting started can be difficult, but as long as you keep trying, fluency is inevitable in my mind.

To me, humans are hard wired to figure out ways to communicate with each other.