To this day, I remember that one of the scenarios I had to talk about in the speaking portion of the DLPT was "How do you use a public telephone"? Keep in mind, I had never been to Korea yet, had no idea what "phone cards" were, and for some reason, the word for "press" (as in "press a button") had never come up in class. I don't know HOW we studied Korean for 12 months and never learned how to say "press", but I remember trying for about 2 minutes to talk around it, and finally I just gave up and said "press" in English. It mentally scarred me for life I think.....