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isotope75
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| Yes you are right. My students may not even notice if I have an accent. The problem is to get to them, since the people that hire will ask for my passport. And the �cutest accent� is not mine; it belongs to the French Canadian. |
Ipasia/Oryx
I shall call you Oryfice.
Has it ever occoured to you that the reason you are having trouble getting a job is not because of you accent or teaching ability?
It might have something to do with your arrogance and know it all attitude.
Enjoy the snow in Toronto burra. |
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Guy Courchesne
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:04 am Post subject: harsh |
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isotope75...that was harsh, no? You should go back and read the first three posts.
I would love to be back in Toronto to see some snow. That is, if the mayor doesn't get the army to ship it to Chilly Beach.
Seamos burros en nieve weyes  |
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isotope75
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No it wasn't harsh. Maybe you haven't seen the posts she made on www.brazzil.com/forum. This website was hacked but you can still see the archives.
Oh by the way, LIFE is a noun unless you substitute the F with a V. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Oh by the way, LIFE is a noun unless you substitute the F with a V |
Congrats! You are the first to fall into the trap. You win a short ladder to haul yourself out. |
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Deconstructor
Joined: 30 Dec 2003
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Location: Montreal
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Look guys, I don't know how this thread turned into a confrontation, but in any case, it is true that there is a great deal of prejudice when it comes to teaching English. But the bottom line is this: first you have to be a great communicator, native or non-native. You also have to be perfectly fluent; that is to say, you have to speak with a native-like ability so that the students can get an idea of how an average person speaks and what it's like to live in an Anglophone country (if this is what they are doing or will do).
There are teachers both native and non-native who have a very poor command of the English language. They should never be hired. Evaluating them is not hard: just let them speak on some fairly complicated topic for 10 minutes. |
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carnac
Joined: 30 Jul 2004
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Location: in my village in Oman ;-)
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Wolf -
I appreciate your signature of Miyamoto Musashi.
Following his teaching, a teacher must teach with two hands.
He tried to be Zen. |
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