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dogsbody70 (Offline)
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09-04-2011, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by acjama View Post
Hmm, I suddenly have the urge to quote Shakespeare...

Depends on your priorities. Are they:

1) To fulfill your teenage life long dream (described in full detail here) of "living in Japan" by riding the demand that ignores the result and damns the rest?
- Sure, c'mon in!

2) To actually teach somebody English in a way that in the end, that person can actually converse in English?
- well, have you yourself learned a foreign language? If not, what insights can you give to a person whose starting efforts exceed your end results? How are your pedagogic studies going?

Better to follow somebody's example than simply walk alone to a direction he's vaguely pointing to.

Most Native english speakers do a special course on teaching English as a foreign language.

So if a person visits England-- are they to avoid all the locals and search for foreign teachers of ENGLISH?

Its crackers to me.
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