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[magelarocque]

Are you in need of a tutor? I'd be glad to provide you with a decent vocabulary since you seem to use words you fail to understand completely.

[Revenant]

Keep it civil in this thread. Otherwise, there will be some consequences.

EDIT: One already sought to disregard the warning and has been shown the door.

[kazachka]

What a terrible story. I'm really sorry you had to endure that. Thanks for sharing it though. The only way to really do your homework is to visit beforehand and talk to school staff as well as those intending to hire you. I did this because I was living here 3-4months out of the year anyways while I was working in Alaska. Not everyone can do this and it's tough to fully assess things from the other side of the pond.

[GleasonHome]

Magelerocque, very good piece! I know what effort you devoted to describe English First St. Petersburg. My wife and I are extricating ourselves from a similar situation at CREF Moscow, which requires our full attention (as would extricating one for any group of dysfunctionals).

In a few weeks I can give full-attention to my notes. There are ways to give predators a crack in the teeth now and then.

Though we are different people in different situations (I am male, speak Russian, weigh 200+ pounds with decades of American football and English rugby printed on my face, and had my wife there to help sound out ideas), it was still very difficult.

The Russians? They are Russians and I defer to the professionals like Tatiana Tolstaya or Viktoria Tolkareva to point out their foibles. For readers who have problems with Russian mannerisms, so do the Russians.

The Ex-pats. Odd-bunch there. As a female I knew who once went to the edge of the English-speaking world (in this case, Alaska) to find a man, noted, �The odds are good, but the goods are odd.�

In any case, Knowledge is power, I will put together what worked for us in Russia-CIS, (in a few weeks) to somewhat even the knowledge balance. The foreign language schools are not all dysfunctional, and those that are need to have their business-model fail.

[kazachka]

LOL- I'm from Alaska and I would never EVER recommend it as a place to find a man!!! Alaska chicks do have the saying "the odds are good but the goods are odd." I suppose one could date in Anchorage as there are fewer -end-of -the-roaders there, but I spent(burnt) most of my 20s in Fairbanks and never in my LIFE have I seen so many men who just don't take care of themselves. It's disgusting to look at fat men with beards literally to their bellies I'm in the process of working out the details to returning to the Anchorage area and my former employer due to the economic collapse here, but no amount of love or $ would ever get me to voluntarily live in Fairbanks again. It's a social and cultural vacuum and not a place for a young liberal who still wants to have a life.

Back on topic- what is CREF? EF????

[GleasonHome]

Kazachka:

http://www.cref.ru/en/home/moscow It was founded to teach French and is/was attempting to also offer English. As I have time to make sense of my notes, I an sure I will find the basis of humorous English-American-French-Russian-Crazymaker (a nationality of thier own) misunderstandings.

[kazachka]

Courses of Russian at CREF: Since 13 years, many expatriates and companies trust in CREF for their learning Russian. Why not you?!


Well, first impressions do count and these guys could at least get an editor for their site. Perhaps we could use a refresher lesson on the use of for and since Seems I saw them advertised on expat several months back.

[maths nerd]

Hi,

Have just noticed jobs advertised for CREF and am checking them out. Am too new to send a PM, but would be interested in receiving one, and email contact to reply.

I notice on other forums they get a good rating in terms of legitimate visas etc.. so would like to hear all sides. Esp. things like legal visa, prompt pay, hours as promised.

[canucktechie]

[kazachka]

Hehe, time to bust out Round Up. It's one of my favorite grammar-cleaner-uppers

[dav06012]

Thanks for this, it's really eye opening. More people should probably read this, because EF really does seem to be touting itself as the Holy Grail. It makes me a little bit sad though, because I was looking into the EF St. Pete school to teach at. I adore that city (I was a volunteer), and I'm looking for any way to get back. But that sounds like something I definitely don't wanna go through. I don't know what it is about Russia, or Russians, but we definitely had some extremely close calls, visa-wise, that scared the crap out of us. When we went to fly home for Christmas we had no idea whether we were going to be able to leave the country, because our passport visas had been stamped 'invalid' and our new paper-visas were not exactly legitimate looking, and had been torn crossing back from Finland. Still, great experience, and if anyone's looking for an amazing volunteer experience for college-aged kids, I'd totally recommend this program.

[waxwing]

[jpvanderwerf2001]

[midwest-magpie]

[dav06012]