Kwenchanayo~

This morning, some Korean visited my office for a meeting with my boss. Having done with the business matters, a woman came to my desk. As she asked me if I could give her the company’s phone number, she accidentally dropped something, so she said, “Oh, I’m sorry.” And I answered, “Kwenchanayo..” (“It’s alright…”)

If only you could see their expression! They were so surprised and really delighted with such small thing! (I was happy too, being given a chance to speak Korean eventhough just one word ) And this time I still had enough sense to answer, “Just a liiitle!” when they asked me, “Do you speak Korean?” Maybe because they weren’t Andrea Hirata, to whom I had answered, “Oui!” for his question, “Ah, vous parlez francais?”

So I think it’s nice to learn some important expressions in other languages (even just for fun ). You never know when you’ll need that. You’ll never know when the chance to make others and yourself happy will come ^^ .

Have a nice week, everyone!