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Ysabel Hayward
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 Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 10:42 am Post subject: New EBC job placement |
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I did the EBC course in Madrid. I had to go back to the UK for quite a while, but now I'm back in Madrid ... yeah!! I noticed that EBC has a new job assistance scheme. Are there any EBCers out there that have used the new scheme as some of the locations look really good.
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MAP Magazine
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| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 2:36 pm Post subject: Is this some sort of secret? |
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| Scheme? That sounds suspicious. I assume you mean "model" or is there something we should know about?! |
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Ysabel Hayward
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Speaking from personal experience I was interviewing on the last day of the course and working the week after. Nothing bad about that is there?
EBC now has other locations on their web like, Italy, Thailand, Argentina etc. I'd like to know if there are any EBCers who are also considering these new job locations?
I'm not in any great hurry to leave the great weather we're having in Madrid right now, also I need to finish off the intensives I'm teaching, but I'd like to travel in the future and these locations look great.
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MAP Magazine
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| Speaking from personal experience I was interviewing on the last day of the course and working the week after. Nothing bad about that is there? |
Huh? Were we talking about this? Sounds like SPAM to me... |
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Ysabel Hayward
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If anyone can answer my original question, just PM me.
Thanks Ysabel |
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lauren d
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I did the buenos aires location, and I liked the city so I'd say it's worth checking out. There were teaching jobs but like anywhere else, don't expect to earn a lot of money teaching. and if you do decide on working in argentina and your spanish is castellano spanish, start getting used to "vos" instead of "tu" ... and if you can somehow avoid the use of the very castellano spanish word "coger", the better. As my Argentinian friends commented, in Spain they "coger" everything, "coger" the elevator, "coger" a cab .... and on and on and on ....
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| in Spain they "coger" everything |
You got that right. |
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lauren d
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can't take credit for that, my Argentine girlfriends were the kind ones on this ... all that time I was happily living in madrid , thought of castellano spanish as the spanish for all spanish speaking countries. ... so i guess i can say that teaching english has some advantages .... not much $$$ but you get a job that allows you the flexibility to travel and see other countries, learn about their cultures and the peculiarities of language usage ... 
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| I did the buenos aires location, and I liked the city so I'd say it's worth checking out. There were teaching jobs but like anywhere else, don't expect to earn a lot of money teaching. and if you do decide on working in argentina and your spanish is castellano spanish, start getting used to "vos" instead of "tu" ... and if you can somehow avoid the use of the very castellano spanish word "coger", the better. As my Argentinian friends commented, in Spain they "coger" everything, "coger" the elevator, "coger" a cab .... and on and on and on .... |
Okay, so here it is established that you went to buenos aires, and it was your friends that told you about the use of "coger" in Spain.
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So were you living in Madrid or Buenos Aires? If you were living in Madrid, you would have known about the use of coger. Why would you need argentinian friends to explain it to you?
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lauren d
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If you were living in Madrid, you would have known about the use of coger. Why would you need argentinian friends to explain it to you?
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madrid was the first spanish speaking city I've been to and I arrived here with my high school spanish which was really close to nothing. I studied for a TEFL certificate, worked as an english teacher and studied spanish in between teaching english. i�ve always wanted to go to argentina and see what it was like to live there so i moved to buenos aires, taught english for a living, enjoyed my stay, but thought i�d like to stay in madrid a bit longer before i go back to the US. now that you've pointed it out, my spanish friends never told me about this peculiarity, it was my argentine roommates and now my good friends who explained the word. jokingly, they adviced me not to use this word too often in argentina just in case i find myself in less cosmopolitan cities and some gaucho from the pampas find me just a bit too s | |
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