I taught ESL in my 20s! I loved when you said, It creates a lot of rules, but then seems to take pleasure in creating words and phrases and spellings that subvert these rules. It made me LOL, because YES!!!, it does JUST that!
I really loved... well, all of this! I loved that you supplied the reality of what it is to really be someone learning a second language. It always ticks me off when people are derogatory of students speaking a second language! I mean, firstly, they can barely conjugate, themselves, but SECONDLY, these people are speaking an extremely hard language that they have only the fundamental and rudimentary understanding of! Get real, man! Just because you can ask for the bathroom in Spanish, doesn't make you fluent! =P UGH.
Anyway, I also love how you describe building your student's confidence. It's not just a boost for the student, but also the teacher! ;D And that confidence spirals! You know what to do in the future, even if every person learns differently.
Kudos to you for doing something so wonderful in this world! Kudos for being the kind of person this world needs more and more and more of! <3
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Date: 2018-11-18 11:21 am (UTC)I taught ESL in my 20s! I loved when you said, It creates a lot of rules, but then seems to take pleasure in creating words and phrases and spellings that subvert these rules. It made me LOL, because YES!!!, it does JUST that!
I really loved... well, all of this! I loved that you supplied the reality of what it is to really be someone learning a second language. It always ticks me off when people are derogatory of students speaking a second language! I mean, firstly, they can barely conjugate, themselves, but SECONDLY, these people are speaking an extremely hard language that they have only the fundamental and rudimentary understanding of! Get real, man! Just because you can ask for the bathroom in Spanish, doesn't make you fluent! =P UGH.
Anyway, I also love how you describe building your student's confidence. It's not just a boost for the student, but also the teacher! ;D And that confidence spirals! You know what to do in the future, even if every person learns differently.
Kudos to you for doing something so wonderful in this world! Kudos for being the kind of person this world needs more and more and more of! <3