Teaching English abroad

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  1. Fez Hammersticks

    Fez Hammersticks スーパーバッド Zero Cool

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    This is a place I'd like to visit. The Ainu culture interests me a lot.
     
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    Crap, i'm not any of those things either, maybe i should be an IT guy over there.
     
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    exactly. when i taught in morocco, the beginners class already had at least 4 years of formal study
     
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    Don't lie bro, they were already smarter than you
     
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    notice i said a "good" language teacher. you can be a bad one and still get paid. i sure did
     
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    I'd kind of feel bad for the students though, getting shortchanged by having a bad teacher. Kind of like public schools here, lol.
     
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    The Chinese students I taught were respectful and quiet. Quite a contrast from the public schools here.
     
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    I'll be honest, i have zero desire to teach here, but thought it might be cool in the Asian countries for that reason, ha ha.
     
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    That's because their parents will put them in a shredding machine if they misbehaved
     
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    Damn straight!
     
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    Or send them to Yao Ming steroid camp to make them seven feet tall?
     
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    This is the biggest reason why I don't wanna do it again. The students were trying so hard and I was just a baaaad teacher.
     
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    Were you teaching them obscure words they had probably never heard before?
     
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    I have a feeling that's how it would go with me.
     
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    I did it to supplement my income when I was living in Spain. Fun stuff. The private tutorials pay pretty well.
     
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    A friend of mine went to Japan after school to teach English. Back in the late 70's.
    He married and stayed and is currently a Professor in Yokohama at Kanagawa University, while living in Tokyo.

    Stumbled across his name a few years ago as a bidder from Japan on a vintage jazz guitar on Ebay and we have stayed in touch. He seems quite happy.

    He once told me he "could never afford" to move back to the US. I'm not sure what he meant by that.:dunno:
     
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    That makes sense to me. I have not taught English, but I have taught in English to mostly native English speakers, and that's hard enough for me to do well. I'd be absolutely horrible as a language teacher.

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    Finish this thought. I'll rep the best post.

    Those who can, do.

    Those who can't, teach.

    Those who can't teach, _____________.
     
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    It's teach english abroad, not teach english to a broad. Can't you read english?
     
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    Public School?
     
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