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Sabine11
Joined: 01 May 2006
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Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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 Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:11 pm Post subject: It's Not Personal |
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I know a lot of new people coming on the Argentina forum got really frustrated when all their questions were being ignored. What happens here is that most ESL teachers on the Argentina Forum don�t stay longer than a year, and end up leaving the country...
Also, many ESL teachers have busy schedules and don�t have time check all the posts and help out the newcomers, and some new people took that rather personally.
I know by experience that many of the previous experienced teachers that were here two years ago got annoyed with newbies posting the same questions over and over again, and told people to �just do a search� and brushed them off.. It was kind of harsh..
I'm glad to answer people�s questions, I hope too that the atmosphere changes on the Argentina forum, the Mexico forum is much more �alive� and ineractive compared to this one.
Suerte, S. |
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bejarano
Joined: 12 Sep 2006
Posts: 67
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:30 pm Post subject: Re: It's Not Personal |
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| Sabine11 wrote: |
I know a lot of new people coming on the Argentina forum got really frustrated when all their questions were being ignored. What happens here is that most ESL teachers on the Argentina Forum don�t stay longer than a year, and end up leaving the country...
Also, many ESL teachers have busy schedules and don�t have time check all the posts and help out the newcomers, and some new people took that rather personally.
I know by experience that many of the previous experienced teachers that were here two years ago got annoyed with newbies posting the same questions over and over again, and told people to �just do a search� and brushed them off.. It was kind of harsh..
I'm glad to answer people�s questions, I hope too that the atmosphere changes on the Argentina forum, the Mexico forum is much more �alive� and ineractive compared to this one.
Suerte, S. |
Veteran ESL teacher based in Cabalitto Bs As.
You know nothing has changed in the past 5 years as regards EFL work. The basics were and are still.
1) You cannot get an official working visa for teaching EFL.
2) You will end up working illegally and without a visa but nobody cares.
3) Renting property is expensive.
4) Lots of work out there as regards English teaching.
5) Try and keep away from the expensive barrios such as Puerto Madero, Belgrano, Palermo etc and try and centre in on areas such as Cabalitto and Castro Barrios.
6) Use the search function! Because nothing has changed since we wrote what we wrote down then and today, MOD EDIT. |
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Sabine11
Joined: 01 May 2006
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Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:18 am Post subject: |
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| Veteran ESL teacher based in Cabalitto Bs As. |
Cool!! I live in Caballito too!!
What you wrote pretty much sums it up..
Welcome back!
S. |
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Mark
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Posts: 500
Location: Tokyo, Japan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:56 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the thoughts Sabine11. I'm currently teaching in Japan and am thinking about heading to a Spanish-speaking city (probably Buenos Aires) next. Nice to know there's someone helpful on the line. |
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