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[Jared]

Hello. My name is Jared. I hear that China is one country which will legally issue you a work visa if you have a TESOL certificate. Is that true? Or do you actually need a degree as well to legally work in China? Also, can you tell me which area's in China speak mandarin? Thanks.
Jared

[Ailian]

[The Great Wall of Whiner]

You can teach in China without a degree.

Not "legally", but most schools get around this problem by having a bit of clout with the local government office or lots of money to pay someone off.

Think of pot in Canada. If you smoke a joint, no one is really going to harass you unless you have pounds of the stuff ready to be distributed throughout the high schools.

[tradinup]

APOSTROPHE LESSON CONTINUED:

Apostrophes are used in a few different ways.

1) Contractions are when two words are shortened to become easier to say.

"It is known that..." becomes "It's known that..."

"That is stupid" becomes "That's stupid"

2) They are also used when denoting a subject's possession.

John's dog ran away.

It doesn't have to be a person though.

The area's size was 20 cubic metres.

An exeption is when the subjects name ends in "s" (i.e. Mrs. Jones), where it is

Mrs. Jones' garden was beautiful.



Am i forgetting anything? Grammar is GREAT.

[Old Dog]

tradinup wrote:

[justcolleen]

[voodikon]

to add the s, or to not add the s, that is the question.

the answer depends on which style guide you're following. academic styles such as APA, MLA, and chicago are generally in favor of adding.

the dominant newspaper style, AP, in the interest of saving space, states that no 's' shall be added.

neither is "more correct"; they are merely different styles.

furthermore, i would most certainly not call questions of apostrophe--or any punctuation mark--usage "grammar."

[Old Dog]

Justcolleen wrote:

[Guest]

I came to this School 15 months ago with no experience, no Degree and no Certificate. I do not advocate that you do that, especially if you are young, but I just want to point out that it is possible. I work for a Private Boarding School and they managed to get my working Visa, and Foreign Experts Card etc. without any of the above.

I do not know what I am an expert at - that is for sure!

[voodikon]

LOL. how beeped-up of me. i just read rhondaplace's post, thinking, what the hell does that have to do with questions of punctuation?

then i went back to the original thread.

oh.

oops.

guess we got a little sidetracked there.

[Old Dog]

Rhonda, it is probably no longer true, if what I hear is true, that you are without a degree. You've probably been provided with a fake Master's Degree (at least). That will satisfy blind officialdom. Of course, you'll do time if ever you're caught out since I'm sure the school will deny any involvement in the fraud. It's a great worry. If I were a Chinese official and lurking in this forum, I'd be checking on those who openly declare that they are here without the prerequisite qualifications, i.e. if someone from your school had offended me, that is. But, as you say, you are in a private institution and things might be different there.

As for coming here without a degree, well, I ask you, what exactly are you going to teach? I guess, if your speech is standard enough, you can give "practice" in speaking English but I wouldn't stray much from there - unless you are one of those hangmen experts, guitar strummers or "let me tell you about my world travels' types. What would possess someone without qualifications of any kind to attempt to pass themselves off as a "teacher", much less a "foreign expert", I do not know.

[tradinup]

voodikon, fancypants...

In my view punctuation is a branch of grammar, which hardly faults me.

gram�mar ( P ) Pronunciation Key (grmr)
n.

The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.
The study of structural relationships in language or in a language, sometimes including pronunciation, meaning, and linguistic history.

The system of inflections, syntax, and word formation of a language. (dictionary.com)
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Periods, commas, numbers, symbols, apostrophes, hyphens, etc. all represent "component parts" to me.

I am open to objections...

[voodikon]

[Lee_Odden]

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