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[spiral78]

[Brunouno]

[spiral78]

Ah, in this one case I will kindly overlook the lack of the apostrophe in favor of content (though I'd have circled students in red with a question mark;-).

[Sashadroogie]

Whatever about variety of English, it's quality should be a concern to alot of poser's who's writing betrays there lack of erudtion and grammer. Tsk tsk!

[spiral78]

Ah, but Sash, some of them speak FOUR languages - surely you can overlook some obvious typos in such a case;-)

[Phillip Schofield]

I may have come late to the party, but I want to throw in a little experience I had a while back.

Our school had a student who traveled a lot to the US to attend Jazz conferences. We didn't have a US teacher at the time and so he was given to me.

After the initial pleasantries, he asked, in a rather disdainful manner, "How can you teach me American English if you are British? You can't speak their language."

I remember wondering whether to even bother trying to explain things to him.

[spiral78]

Heh. I worked almost 8 years in a place where British English was the standard. Was able to handle the job. Reckon you were also. Students can be clueless:-)

[Sashadroogie]

Too much nannying, perhaps?

[Deats]

I always tell my students I am multilingual. I can speak English, American, Australian, etc etc.

[GotoRussia]

hey Droggieman, how good's your Russian? you lived in Russia for what, over a decade or 2. should be perfectly fluent by now.

I'm willing to bet I speak with a better accent than he does with less than 1 year of studying..

as for the nannying, most of you couldn't even get an interview let alone a job with a family.

I've stayed at 5 star hotels in Europe, flown on private jets and helicopters, given an all expenses paid trip to New York to meet a potential client.

I wonder if your students even treated you to a coffee.

Tough life but hey somebody's gotta do it.