Language Exchange

GSIS has increasingly become a place of an exchange of ideas AND an exchange of culture. Students from across the world, from Almaty to Bogota, New Zealand to Novosibirsk, the international student body separates Yonsei GSIS apart from any other GSIS in South Korea. As such, it is important for us to offer ways to share not just ideas, but opportunity to share language. For this we will offer GSIS students a program to have language Exchange with the most prevalent languages in GSIS: Korean, Chinese, and English.

한국어

The De jure language of South Korea, Korean competency is a way to better integrate and enjoy more of this great country. The Korean Language exchange in important for those of us who don't want to take the TOPIK but still want to be able to make small talk and chat, or even those of us who have great written abilities but with poor speaking confidence!

中文

The Latin of Asia, Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in the world. With a major of only Chinese coming in its important for the GSIS community to get ready and say "你好！" to the new incoming major! Meant to avoid learning rogue characters like the scholars of the 고려 dynasty, let's get conversational in Chinese one tone at a time!

English

Too many "like" and "ums"? Do you want to be able to wax philosophical to your professors and colleagues? How about helping the incoming new major join in on the fun activities and conversations? Here students can help those who aren't used to pure conversational English best acclimate to GSIS and our community.

What's the catch?

Language Exchange is about a MUTUAL sharing of culture, language, and ideas, so there are a few ground rules and requirements for Language exchange. Any breaking of these rules will result in removal from the exchange program:

You must sign up for two languages:

One where you are comfortable and one where you want to learn. This helps maintain an equal amount of sharing languages.

You must be respectful of opinions:

If it is POSSIBLY taboo, then don't say it.

Do not antagonize:

Debates and arguments can be healthy, but probing and antagonizing is not, you must be civil

You cannot do each others work:

A tit-for-tat "I edit your homework you edit mine" is not allowed, that is against the rules of the school and is cheating.

SIGN ME UP!!

Fill out this form with your SHARING language and the language you wanted to be SHARED! Once you fill out the form you will receive a notification that you are accepted into the exchange.

After such notification, please sign into the Discord and introduce yourself in the language exchange channel!

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