Korean names

Korean names are pretty hard for me to pronounce, spell and remember. But it seems Koreans know that foreigners have a hard time with their names. Therefore almost all the students we see everyday have chosen English nicknames. Most of my adult students have fairly normal English names. Out of my fifteen adult students, ten have normal English names and two, Hong and Hoon, go by either their last name or a shortened part of their first name. One of my religion students picked Neo as his nickname, after his favourite character and the hero of the Matrix movies. My last two students have pretty interesting names, Rudia and Nicholson. I have absolutely no idea where they came from! Of all my adult student I think Nicholson's name is my favourite. It's just a fun name to say. :)

The names of my junior students are even more fun! Again, most of them have normal English names. But several have picked out very interesting ones. Oh my, some of them have such wonderfully amusing names that I have a hard time not smiling when I call on them in class or during a test! My personal favourites: Sunny (I have two junior classes with two Sunnys each), Smile, Blue, Mac, Soy, and Seven. Since the last four students are all in one class, I had a lot of fun doing conversation tests for that class period today! (Does anybody else see the connection between Blue, Mac and Soy, or is my brain the only crazy one?)

I'm really enjoying learning more and more Korean nicknames. I'll make sure to keep you posted whenever I hear or see new unusual names. :)