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Q: Have you seen any Chinese give ESL demos?
I work in a language training centre, we cater for the 3-12 year old market. Fairly regularly I am invited to sit through demonstration classes for potential employees in the capacity of local co-tutor (I'm lucky(ish) enough to have one in every class). Very boring for the most part. The brilliance of yesterday's one was a girl who said in all seriousness, 'I like dance' and tried to teach 'pear' by saying 'ear' (as in the ones either side of your head) and then adding a 'p' to the start of it. I just shook my head at her.
She's meant to be a CET6. What the f*** are these people taught if they can pass a level like that and be so useless?
14 years 13 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
Before you reach the wrong conclusions, try hard to find out who her baba and mama are, maybe you will understand then.
You may be surprised at how many Chinese tell you they speak English, and if you take them out of Hello, Good Morning, how are you or how old are you, they suddenly clamp down.
About a week ago I met a very good looking woman with my GF. She was a friend of hers for many years. She had bragged to all her friends that she knew French. So, my GF asked me to talk to her in French. Very embarrassing for her, because she just knew a few phrases. To save her face, I shut up after a few minutes. My GF was upset at me for not continue my chat with her. After we left, (and she told me "avanti" instead of "au revoir", and avanti is Italian for doing things faster), I explained to my GF that her friend's knowledge of French was very limited, she was not fluent at all. She did not believe me !
This will be like me saying that I am fluent in mandarin because I can say "hello" ; bye bye" ; "OK" and ni hao.
Jnusb416:
I don't know a lot of French, but I do know more than that! I took French in college. I had to take 4 semesters of a language, and Chinese didn't have 4 classes at the time so French was the next best option. However, I didn't enjoy the classes because of the professor.
