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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Why do some English teachers use poor English in their job listings?
Example from this site:
Hello to you my new student well I'm sure u will be I am a PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE English teacher here in GUANGZHOU I have helped 100s of students to speak like a naitive American in a short time with my 10 years EXPERIENCE I know 100% that I can teach anyone to speak read write English and all my studens would say the seem about me so please call me at 1*********** or at QQ#1*********** any time So we can get started the easy fun way to learn
11 years 14 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
Cuz 'no child be left behind' policees that giv big cents of entitlement to underachivurs.
Cuz gramma doesnt mattur (reely, i donot write liek this inna the classroom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
'cus, like, I was, like, born in the 90s, like, y'know. I C U L8R LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See the 90s generation thread for more of the same. It's embarrassing that a lot of "native" English speakers can no longer speak/read/write "native" English.
And, to seek extra "thumbs down" mileage, when people ask me why I'm here in China, I respond by saying, "I'm here to teach British and Aussies how to speak English."
beaufortninja:
nice. but the sad part is that the job poster looked old enough to know better.
MissA:
'gramma doesn't matta' - I had a bunch of students ask me yesterday, in all seriousness, if it was really important that they use the right preposition when speaking - and was it really necessary to use articles. They're an IELTS class!
Cuz 'no child be left behind' policees that giv big cents of entitlement to underachivurs.
Cuz gramma doesnt mattur (reely, i donot write liek this inna the classroom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
'cus, like, I was, like, born in the 90s, like, y'know. I C U L8R LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See the 90s generation thread for more of the same. It's embarrassing that a lot of "native" English speakers can no longer speak/read/write "native" English.
And, to seek extra "thumbs down" mileage, when people ask me why I'm here in China, I respond by saying, "I'm here to teach British and Aussies how to speak English."
beaufortninja:
nice. but the sad part is that the job poster looked old enough to know better.
MissA:
'gramma doesn't matta' - I had a bunch of students ask me yesterday, in all seriousness, if it was really important that they use the right preposition when speaking - and was it really necessary to use articles. They're an IELTS class!
hahahaha
no no no that one AINT a native for sure.probably one these opportunity seekers.
Like Sinobear said, they write poorly because they don't actually know how to write, or speak for that matter. Dang maybe I should post an ad there.
I'm surprised the consensus here seems to be that this guy is a native. I don't know how bad schools are in some places but, really.....surely nobody could be that bad?
Half of my intermediate-level students write better than that!
Perhaps not a native-speaker and if a native speaker, perhaps an uneducated one. There's a lot of that flavor around here, too. I once worked with British telephone repairman from London who came to China and metamorphosed into the DOS of a highly respectable school and his English was dreadfully cockney and his grammar was dreadfully illiterate.
Speak like a Native American? I just picture a bunch of Chinese kids running around speaking of "the great creator, ohziam"
I am not a Native American nor an opportunist. My spoken and written English are decent, and this was according to my American employer. About the question above, probably that English teacher is not a real English teacher (regardless of nationality)or maybe he/she asked a Chinese associate to advertise and look for possible clients for the "English teacher". Or maybe it is a Chinese competitor.
The English in that advertising reminds me of the 'article' one of my former schools wrote about me, (without either consulting me, or asking me), in that they stated that I held a "PhD in 'Psichology'" (whatever that is). Perhaps that 'advert' was placed by a Chinese friend or colleague without the persons knowledge?
P.S. I don't hold a PhD in anything.