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It took me three years before I could hold a conversation in an intermediate level of spanish, that is the level of vocabulary. But my grammar is still not very good, past and present tense. Yes, you must pass the Spanish test to become a bilingual teacher, and, in some english franchise schools lik...

This means that your TTT (teacher talk time) is a little high. Depending on the school, your boss and the curriculum, your speaking should be less than 50% of the lesson. Let the students do the speaking, make the mistakes, and correct them, Letting them make mistakes helps with memory.

"fingers do the walking" is an idiom. So the second sentence is a better one.

Are ther some English consonant sounds that never occur in the final position?

Although I lived in the United States, I was a student there many years ago, and have been back countless times. I was wondering what the general consensus would be in this forum on the following question: Your student is a new bilingual learner who has difficulties understanding American cultural c...

Why do linguists use a phonetic alphabet as opposed to standard orthography? What would be a variety of answers in this forum?