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thomas pars · Joined: 29 Jan 2009

Remember that Spanish teacher you had in American high school? Or the French teacher you had in Canadian high school. we treated him/her like shit
and/or laughed at them cause they had an accent. Well Karma MF. We are them.

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

I remember the Spanish teacher I had in high school. Everyone treated him well and with respect. Maybe you shouldn't generalize too much in the future.

mscoop1085 · Joined: 12 Feb 2009

Yeah, karma's a bitch....I could honestly care less though what they think of me as long as I'm still getting my paycheck each month $$$$$$!

littlelisa · Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Location: Seoul

I treated all my language teachers with respect. I loved languages, actually. French (ongoing since preschool), Hebrew (elementary school), Spanish (high school), Italian (CEGEP), Chinese (University)... I remember not liking French cause I felt like I was forced to study it (up until CEGEP), but I still respected the teachers. Except for one French teacher in CEGEP, but he really wasn't a good teacher at all. And I didn't openly disrespect him or anything, I just put in no effort in the class (and laughed with other students at how he always wore the exact same pants every day. Either he had one, or a closet full of identical ones).

I still keep in touch with some of my language teachers, and would say hi to the rest if I saw them in the street and recognized them. I remember my 6th grade French homeroom teacher.. he was awesome! Taught us through songs and all sorts of stuff. Actually made it fun for once.

But maybe it is karma. My students here respect me too. More than I can say for French public school students.

sarahsiobhan · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 7:34 am Post subject:

I was in French Immersion, and so all through my schooling, half of my teachers were French, and taught us in French.....I was fine with it. I am now fluently bilingual, so I am also grateful.

Tundra_Creature · Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Location: Canada

I remember my French teachers. Most were pretty nice, I never made fun of their accents, but I'll admit, in College, I was probably about as motivated as the Koreans learning English.

Kryten · Joined: 10 Nov 2008

cruisemonkey · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:44 am Post subject:

My grade nine French teacher has a nervous breakdown in front of the class and ran out crying - never to be seen again. I'm way less 'sensitive' than her. Cool

That's not to say my patience (and sometimes what's left of my sanity) isn't tried by 1076, middle school monkey-boys. Laughing

WavFunc · Joined: 23 Oct 2009

My French teacher couldn't speak French. We went to Quebec and he couldn't help anybody.

At the end of the year some students killed his cat and put it in his desk... the guy didn't even react! Just closed the drawer and dealt with it after classes.

Anyway, I will avoid this situation by not owning a cat...

definitely maybe · Joined: 16 Feb 2008

My German teacher in high school was exceptional.

UknowsI · Joined: 16 Apr 2009

I had an American maths and English teacher with a horrible American accent. It took most students about 1 year before they started to understand what he was saying in the maths class. It would have been easier if he just combined maths class and English class. However, he was a very good teacher when you came to the point where you understood what he was saying.

I also had a Swiss German teacher who had a very creepy accent, but at least she was easy to understand, just that she had zero intonation.

But I often try to imagine what I would think of my English teacher friends as my teachers. I'm sure some of them would be the kind of people we would look back and make jokes of at our reunion party 10 years later.

Old Gil · Joined: 26 Sep 2009 Location: Got out! olleh!

DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP · Joined: 28 May 2009 Location: Electron cloud

In England we treated our native French ansd German teachers the same as all the other teachers. None of the crap we have to put up with about being different in Korea.

Goku · Joined: 10 Dec 2008

ChaBaa · Joined: 04 Nov 2009

I don't remember our French/German teacher being treated badly by us when I was a kid. Ignored sometimes as we were kids, so lacking in motivation, but generally with respect. Like most of our other teachers too I guess. So karma's got it right for me this time. Maybe if you'd been a bit more of a pleasant kid at school, you wouldn't be having trouble getting respect from your students now? I know what you're saying about the level of respect for us NETs in general though, they'd NEVER get away with some of the shit they pull here if they were kids in the UK. In the 80's. In a really nice part of town.

Some students even fancied our foreign Languages teacher... Wink

so be careful what you wish for.....