Engrish Ressons. Sill-lah-bulls!!

So Moms is taking Engrish ressons to help her plonunciation.

She has a teacher that comes to our house every Monday at 2. After every lesson she gets a homework assignment.

Every Monday I sit with mom and do her homework. Uh... I mean "help" her with her homework. Let me tell you, that shit is hard!!

This weeks homework was to think up fruits/foods that had 1 syllable 2 syllable and up to 4 syllables in the word. 1-3 no problem. But seriously can any of you think of any 4 syllable words? The homework assignment gave us "asparagus" as an example. Once moms showed me her homework assignment we started rumaging through the kitchen cabinets looking at labels clapping our hands together and counting syllable. Yes, my house has turned into a visible looney bin. Dads helped. He started walking around the house and clapping his hands and looking at boxes and stuff. He didn't know why we were doing it but figured he'd help us with our insanity.

I think we found 2 words and then gave up. Although moms was very disappointed and told me I should look on the internets and find words.

The second portion of the homework assignment was to find countries of cities with 1-3 syllable names. Uh... wuh? 1 syllable is a bitch. I started googling and mapquesting trying to find cities. I figured out Chad. That's about it.

Moms got upset because she hadn't finished her homework and said I wasn't being supportive because I wasn't asking the internets for the answers to her homework. She also clarified to me that this was not considered "cheating" per say because she didn't really need to know the actual words, or come up with them on her own, she just needed to learn how to Plo-nown-see-ate duh wolds plop-uh-lee.

I think dads has decided to help moms out with her homework. She explained the concept of syllables to him so he's started walking around the house clapping while saying words. We had a little bit of an argument when we tried to explain that the words needed to be in Engrish and not in Korean, when my dad started telling us a bunch of fruit names in Koh-lee-an.

This whole learning enrigsh thing is starting to get to me I think. I've been finding myself clapping and counting syllables while in public (mostly talking to myself). I also am starting to plo-nun-see-ate like moms when I'm talking. Instead of her english accent getting better, my ENGRISH accent is getting more plo-nown-seh-duh.

*sigh* never going to win this battle. I wonder if I can get Moms' teacher to give her homework earlier so I don't have to do mom's homework and my homework on the same day.