1100 SAT score

krndandaman
Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:12:14 +0000

@Challenged
It’s really quite easier said than done because the dorm we live in is (boarding school) is exclusively only other Korean international students and myself. He is quite popular among American kids actually but he really can’t have extensive conversations with them. He knows enough English to get by, but he has alot of trouble with academic reading and writing. Like, he has trouble with the Magic Tree House series I read when I was in 2nd grade. I’ve told him several times to keep making American friends and try to talk with them but he gets so frustrated because he can’t convey his feelings correctly and express what he wants to say. He definitely has alot of American friends though… he has more American friends than I do in school lol
@mom2collegekids
He’s going through SAT tutoring right now over the summer and I will tell him to try to get a tutor for English in general. I looked up Sylvan and it looks a little bit too specific for him and I don’t even know if he can communicate adequately with an American tutor. All his tutors have been Korean-Americans who can translate to Korean if he has trouble understanding something. I really have no idea what he can do… at the moment I just told him to start by reading a ton of easy books and work up the ladder and recommended him the Magic Tree House series. Kinda stumped here.