beat around the bush
Who taught: Pat
Beat around the bush (source: amazon.com)
As Jessy and I live longer in America, we become not craving for Korean foods anymore. But, for some reason, we wanted to have Korean food for dinner today. So, she cooked one of the traditional Korean foods, Chung-Guk-Jang JjiGae. One of its ingredients is fermented bean paste. After having this as dinner, we took a walk for about 40 minutes around our neighborhood. It was very pleasant weather to walk today. After the walk, I opened the door and we came into our house. Wow….. it smelled horrible. (Alex, sorry for the bad smell if you did smell it. 🙂 )I cannot believe what is happening for Jessy and me. In Korea, we used to love the smell but not anymore. So, the first thing we did was lighting a few candles in the house. I think many of the American houses have a few candles not just for the source of light but for the source of fragrance. I might be wrong but we do use candles for fragrance.
A few days ago, Jessy and I went out to dinner with Rachel and Pat. During our conversation, Pat said, “Right! Jessica does not beat around the bush.” I remember I studied the expression when I was in Korea but that was actually the first time I had ever heard someone using it in a sentence. It simply means, “Jessica does not talk about something indirectly.” I think the reason why Pat thought that Jessica is not the person who beats around the bush is because of her English. I mean if you cannot speak good English, then it is not easy to say something or make sentences which are a little indirect or implied. Am I right, Jessy? ……
I am just pulling your leg, honey, here! Jessy is actually not the person who likes to beat around the bush. She speaks very directly to other people. Especially in case she does not like someone, she does not hesitate to talk about it even in front of him/her. But, I think that is really good. Good for her health! I like it. Good thing is she does like me and she said, “I love you,” to me. And… I can trust what she is saying. 🙂
Thanks for the compliment on my personality(.. But I’m not even sure it’s compliment)
but on the other hand, Too directly speaking can easily be rude, it’s difficult to be forthright and not give offense. I do ONLY to close friends(underline~~~~!).
And also Honey, look at the bright side, At least you can trust 100% whenever I say love you.
Hey hey, you guys, your blog is meant to be a public space, isn’t it? The entry and the comment are too sweet to…, ha ha
Anyway, finally I made an entry about your site in my blog;
http://bloggermalone.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-post_19.html
Hope you’ll have more visitors in your site from Japan. Your entries are always quite useful. BTW, I’m curious what your next challenge will be. What are you going to study from now on. Do write about it. Thank you!
P.S.
I lived in NY for a year looong time ago, but it was not for study. My father worked over there and I joined him just after I had passed an entrance examination to a Japanese Univ. I postponed to go to the Univ. for a year and lived NY.
I had no idea what to do in NY, so I attended some classes at American Language Institute of NYU, but I don’t think I learned anything there, because we, Japanese, learn English a lot for the exam, so at that time I had no fluency at all but too much knowledge about English as a student. I think the same thing can be said for the students from Korea.
Lately I became being able to use English like this, but it’s not from the stay in NY or the study at school, it’s mostly from reading books. I read many kind of books, children’s books, picture books, manga, magazines and PB. I believer the key to improve your English is that how much you can merge yourself in a real or almost real, I mean books, DVD, podcast and dramas, English world. ^^
Have a nice day!
Hi Emmie, Good to see you again! Of course, my blog is open to anyone in the world. It makes me so happy to see some traffic coming from all other countries. Thank you for letting me know about your blog entry. I read it and I really appreciate your compliments. Honestly, learning English would be a challenge continuously for me. I will try to keep up with your expectations. Reading your writing, I am sure you do your best to learn English. Totally agree with you about your methodology. Reading books and watching TV shows definitely help to improve your English. Especially, watching the same TV show repetitively and speak the same sentences the actors saying out loud really help. In Korea, people learn a lot of grammars but are not able to have chances to speak English. But things are changing. Hopefully, it is really better now than before. See you soon! Thank you again for your post!