90 percent of people on this site are English teachers. Most of us don't speak Korean either.

When I came here, I didn't know a word of Korean and I went straight into a public school to teach classes by myself who didn't know any English.

Don't worry about it, it's not really a problem. Make it fun, use flashcard games or powerpoints you can find on this site.

Yeah most of us are either in the same situation or were when we started. Most things you can find a picture, use flashcards or actions. You can always find a beginner level Korean text book, look at that for sentences. Most of that it teaches will probably be similar to what you'll teach her, so learn the Korean before you teach her and you'll be able to tell her (or at least write out) a translation that's more accurate than google translate.

I started taking Korean classes about 7 months ago and I've learned up to about what my 5th graders learned. Helped a lot last year when I had after school classes teaching to elementary 1st graders. The young kids pick stuff up fast tho, so you should be alright.

You have the common language of body language... like fingers for counting. Waving = HI.

And in my opinion, learn KOREAN.

Reason being it will give you a good reality on what they are going through as well as why they make the mistakes they often make. (e.g. Korean doesn't have "a,an,the" like English).

Quote from: cyrusbrooks on April 28, 2017, 04:03:14 PM

You have the common language of body language... like fingers for counting. Waving = HI.

And in my opinion, learn KOREAN.

Reason being it will give you a good reality on what they are going through as well as why they make the mistakes they often make. (e.g. Korean doesn't have "a,an,the" like English).

Actually Korean does.  That's where 이/가 (a/an) and 은/는  (the, depending on if it's a consonant or vowel) come in.

Those are topic/subject markers which I'm pretty sure are not articles. Articles go before the noun. I've seen some sources say Korean doesn't have them and some say Korean does. Even if you want to make a case that those are articles, his point still stands because we don't use them after the noun.

Getting back on track, I second that OP should try to learn Korean if she has time.

Quote from: Piggydee on April 28, 2017, 04:51:16 PM

Quote from: cyrusbrooks on April 28, 2017, 04:03:14 PM

You have the common language of body language... like fingers for counting. Waving = HI.

And in my opinion, learn KOREAN.

Reason being it will give you a good reality on what they are going through as well as why they make the mistakes they often make. (e.g. Korean doesn't have "a,an,the" like English).

Actually Korean does.  That's where 이/가 (a/an) and 은/는  (the, depending on if it's a consonant or vowel) come in.

Case markers are not articles. 은/는 perform some similar functions as determiners but they aren't the same and 이/가 have no similar words in English. Really they're incomparable.

Not only that, but when they do have something like in English, they don't use it.

Ex: They have words for he and she. But they almost never use them, because culturally it's awkward. I remember Korean lessons when we were learning something like "He is tall" and the Korean phrase taught actually said "That person is tall."

And in case you don't know what the word Waygook means, it's the Korean word for foreigner. 

Waygook actually means foreign country.
Waygookin is foreigner.

On the topic though, learning Korean or at least learning the Korean words for the Vocab/Sentences you have to teach would probably be most beneficial.
It'll help with both explaining and comprehension check.